Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? Whether you are new to the riveting world of content or are a self-ascribed expert (i.e. content addict), there is always more to learn. They say ‘content is king’, but, if handled well, it is far more than this.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

Marketing success boils down to one thing: your audience’s trust. When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. Just follow their lead with authentic content that gives your brand a human face. Use Humor to Build Connections.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

Few content marketers can develop great material without input from one or more subject matter experts (SMEs). Here are some tips on how to get your best experts to help you create stand-out content: Explain how the finished product will contribute to a specific company goal , such as generating upsell revenue for a product line.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s a wake-up call for content marketers and publishers everywhere. The way people engage with these platforms is changing, and it’s reshaping how they interact with content outside of these social bubbles, particularly in driving traffic to external sites. This trend is not isolated to news outlets alone.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Careless content marketing mistakes are costing businesses more than their monthly budget. Blindly navigating your marketing strategy can cause your content to capsize. Turn your mistakes into mastery and learn how to build an effective content marketing strategy that guarantees smooth sailing. Top 7 Content Marketing Mistakes.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2021

What if I told you the answer was quality content? Content is king today and will still be on the throne tomorrow. In 2020, 70% of marketers were already actively investing in content marketing ( HubSpot ). 79% of B2B content marketers say their organization has a content marketing strategy ( Content Marketing Institute).

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2023

The Content Marketer Sorting Hat — Which house are you? That’s why when we think about brands who embody the Gryffindor spirit, we think of serious content marketing trailblazers — ones whose daring content has made them well known by just about everyone. Let’s look at a few Gryffindor-esque content examples.

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Content Standard

APRIL 16, 2024

At the same time, Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer research cites search engines as the source consumers most trust for news and information—outstripping trust in traditional, owned, and social media channels. Ownable IP: Per the latest guidance from the U.S.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Content is king. You need content. Gotta have that content. You hear people singing the praises of content marketing all the time but, really, why should you care? Well, most companies say they use content marketing to either create brand awareness or build trust: Content Marketing Institute.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 24, 2022

Brightcove recently partnered with Ascend2 to conduct “The Power of Video in the B2B Buyer’s Journey” report, and statistics indicated that the majority of B2B buyers (70%) agreed that video is the best content format for creating awareness of a business-related problem. Identifying B2B Buyers’ Marketing Content Preferences.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered if your paid content is actually doing its job? What you consider valuable content might be seen as worthless by your customers when they’re trying to make a purchase. Gated content filled with handy how-to guides and relevant research can be the fastest route for your clients to make up their minds.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

They’ll be more likely to remember you, admire you, trust you, and work with your business long term. With content marketing. Fuel the momentum needed to retain your customers by offering your followers relevant and engaging content at every stage of the buyer’s journey. It’s one of the most trusted channels today.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. They will consume content, but only if it’s valuable to them. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As the volume of online content grows daily, it can be difficult to make sure your voice is heard over the noise. Thought leadership content marketing is one of the most effective ways of establishing your name and company as an authority in your industry. But what exactly is thought leadership content marketing ?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2020

Sponsored content, sometimes described as “native advertising,” is a controversial topic in the world of content marketing. Last week I covered the content quantity vs. content qualit y debate. When managed well, sponsored content can be beneficial for the sponsor, the publisher, and the audience.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 20, 2021

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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 17, 2021

“Is content marketing the right choice for my business?” Content marketing isn’t just one of those trends that come and go in the marketing world. After all, it appears on a content marketing agency’s blog, right? Content marketing checks off all three boxes. Put industry-leading content to work for your brand.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). Bad content isn’t going to propel a company forward. Most of it sucks.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 25, 2023

Since November of 2020, CNET , a tech news site owned by Red Ventures, has been quietly publishing low-quality articles written by AI tools. Not to mention, using AI to write content (instead of humans) would also cut CNET’s expenses significantly, really maximizing their ROI. Will Google Penalize AI-Generated Content?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing? Yes, it is true that we use content marketing to: Help our target audience solve problems. Build trust in our brand and its expertise.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 2, 2023

Sometimes creating content for your audience can feel like throwing spaghetti at a wall– hoping something will stick. Put down the spaghetti and grab your zero-party hat, because it’s time to get serious about your content marketing strategy. Image Source: Giphy Our secret weapon for success is to include zero-party data.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

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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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload. Create buyer personas and research content that meets their needs. Create content targeted to your new market segments.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

I’m a big believer in making the content you publish the hub around which your content marketing strategy revolves. However, to rock content marketing in today’s omni-channel world, social media plays a key supporting role. Quick Takeaways: Your content marketing strategy needs more than a perfectly optimized website.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 28, 2023

A well-rounded content marketing strategy will rely on several different types of content to achieve its goals. Understanding how each different content format works, which audience segments it appeals to, and how it fits into your overall sales and marketing funnel is key to success.

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Contently

JANUARY 17, 2023

Few content teams have someone with such a keen eye for facts. And honestly, the kinds of content businesses publish rarely require the rigor expected by publishers of long-form investigative journalism. All content teams do, however, need everyone to buy into and use the following practices.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 5, 2022

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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this point, there’s no denying that content marketing is being used by most companies. In this post, we’ll be looking at how to tell if content marketing saturation has hit your industry. Content marketing is highly prevalent in just about every industry, making it hard to cut through the noise. What Is Content Saturation?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. Content Marketing is the about building measurable business growth. Everyone inside the business creates content.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, having a content marketing program tends to be a given. But one of the challenges of having a baseline assumption is that it can be easy to lose sight of why content marketing became such a cornerstone of B2B marketing in the first place. If your content comes across as salesy and pushy, readers will move on quickly.

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Top Rank Marketing

APRIL 8, 2024

If you’re wondering how to move the needle on your website’s performance in search, conducting an SEO content audit is an essential first step. There’s a reason why, according to research from Semrush , 61% of marketers conduct content audits two or more times per year. What is the purpose of a content audit?

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Content Standard

MAY 14, 2018

Only 32 percent of people trust the news. In an era of “fake news,” when just about anyone can start a publishing site, print outlandish claims, and go viral on social media, that’s hardly a surprising stat. It’s also why award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman set up the Trust Project.

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Contently

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The good news: There are a lot of content marketing resources out there. The bad news: There are a lot of content marketing resources out there. Heading into 2022, everyone wants to up their content game. But sometimes, sifting through a sea of content about marketing can be overwhelming. SEO for Content Course.

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RebelMouse

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized content creation by helping individuals and businesses meet readers' demands to create high-quality and related content recommendations. Related content is information relevant to specific topics or user interests.

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth. Drawing the line between B2B and B2C SEO content The defining difference between B2B and B2C is that one targets businesses and professionals, while the other targets individual consumers.

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Martech

JUNE 21, 2023

You’ve just hit the “publish” button on your company’s latest blog post. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone.

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