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Content Without Advocacy is Just Words and Google Bait

Convince & Convert

In just one year – from a standing start – SME became a multi-million dollar business. In addition to the blog itself, Mike and the SME crew produce the excellent Social Media Success Summits and Facebook Success Summits (disclosure: I’ve been a part of nearly all of them as a paid presenter).

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Marketing Craftmanship - Untitled Article

Marketing Craftmanship

Here’s one example of how the credibility game is played: At considerable expense, a PR firm will earn their client a spot as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on a respected journalist’s list of sources, which may eventually yield a relevant quote in a published story.

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Celebrities may be Making a Fortune With Their ‘#ad’ Posts, but What About The Brands?

Onalytica B2B

You have to consciously decide to engage with a YouTubers’ content, meaning you’re already in a trusting, receptive position as an audience member. Therefore, when a video you happened to want to watch anyway, has ‘#ad’ in the title, this is less likely to offend the viewer. ARE CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS THE WAY FORWARD?

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Why You Should be Using Quora for B2B Demand Gen

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Quora is built around content marketing, sharing knowledge, and helping others. Your content must be value-driven and relevant and that starts with building a presence. It all begins with answering questions to establish your subject matter expertise (SME). So, you can’t walk through that door and make it all about sales.

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How to Turn One Piece of Content into Multiple for SEO

Moz

Posted by liambbarnes As most SEO specialists have learned, you must create quality content to grow organically. But as people consume more and more content each day, they become less receptive to basic content that doesn't provide a new perspective. The biggest challenge here is building a content strategy at scale.

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Marketing in the Age of Disruption

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is the most critical aspect of modern marketing, and its focus is always on the customer. 2006: Facebook debuts. Marketers need to deliver content that attracts buyers. This is what content marketing is. Content marketing isn’t novel. What’s this content missing?

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B2B Social Media Marketing: Focus on leads, not likes

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Nichole Kelly, President of SME Digital , a digital marketing agency, and Chris Baggott, Chairman and Cofounder, Compendium , a content marketing software company, have helped hundreds of clients move from counting “likes” and “shares” to counting what executives care about: sales volume, revenue and cost. “But