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9 Places to Source Authoritative Stats for Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

As content marketers, we are always on the hunt for interesting data to grab reader attention and support our claims. The journalistic protocol is to cite an original, authoritative source that is transparent about its methodology (like the description on page 41 in CMI’s annual B2C Content Marketing Report.)

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How to Use Content to Achieve Thought Leadership Results

Vision Edge Marketing

The phrase “content is king” was used by Bill Gates in 1996 to describe the future of the internet as a marketplace to share information. More than 25 years later and after countless innovations across both print and digital content, the familiar phrase continues to dominate business headlines. three to five pieces of content ?before

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Employee Advocacy: 3 Tips to Help Your Content Distribution Strategy Evolve

Marketing Insider Group

It’s an open secret: for many companies, corporate content marketing just isn’t working anymore. They have trouble contending with data privacy laws, social media algorithms, and the public’s general mistrust of sponsored content. It means that for companies to succeed with online content marketing, they have to adapt.

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How to Create Effective Thought Leadership Content

Marketing Insider Group

To establish your place as a thought leader and trustworthy authority in your industry, you need to publish original, high-level content. But writing effective thought leadership content is no easy task. Taking the time and effort to learn how to create high-authority content is worth the effort. Quick Takeaways.

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5 Content Marketing Lessons from the Fastest Growing SaaS Companies

Marketing Insider Group

Debate raged for a long time about whether SaaS companies really needed content marketing. In 2022, that debate is dead — content is a critical piece of successful digital marketing for every SaaS brand. Topics covered in SaaS content are often technical. 5 Actionable Content Marketing Lessons for SaaS. Quick Takeaways.

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Groundhog Day Marketing: Six Tips to Get Out of a Marketing Rut

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Even the savviest of marketers can relate to the struggle of continuously creating the same content, launching the same campaigns and repeating the same initiatives simply because “that’s what we’ve always done.” Reach out to colleagues, mentors and close clients for honest opinions about marketing campaigns.

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Most Marketing Sucks: How a Culture of Empathy Can Save It

Marketing Insider Group

At the same time, marketing leaders are faced with colleagues across every function who have strong opinions about what marketing tactics we should deploy. They no longer take orders to create content no one wants, to execute campaigns everyone ignores, and to slump in their chair when the results don’t materialize.