Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

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. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Now don’t get me wrong.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 12, 2023

Good content will nudge the needle on your business’s visibility. Remarkable content changes lives and earns you loyal followers. For example, a recent study showed that educational content made buyers 131% more likely to purchase from the publisher. Learn the tips and tricks to creating remarkable content.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Then, you should work with your marketing team on adding more journalistic content to your mix. Buyers are turning away from salesy ads and overtly promotional media and gravitating toward content that is educational and informative. Learn what creating content like a journalist really means and discover our best tips on how to do so.

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The digital marketing world may continue to change, but one thing’s for sure: content remains king. And what sets great content apart from the rest? In-depth content marketing research. That’s where content marketing research tools come into play, streamlining the processes and turning challenges into opportunities.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

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. You can continue to build brand loyalty by engaging with your audience, personalizing your content, telling real stories, and listening to customer feedback.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2023

Find New Ideas for Content When you’re publishing weekly, bi-weekly, or daily (like we do here), you can soon start to struggle to come up with new ideas. These functions let you search for pages with a particular word in the URL or page title. You also need to put that data to work with a strong content marketing program.

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Marketing Craftmanship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In the mid 1980s, with introduction of the Mac computer, PageMaker software, and the LaserWriter printer, the DeskTop Publishing system was born; for the first time allowing anyone to create print and online marketing materials that did not require a bona fide graphic designer or any elaborate printing hardware to produce physical documents.

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Marketing AI Paid Search Agency Copywriting Thought Leadership 147

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 21, 2021

Content creation is the cornerstone of a successful inbound marketing strategy. This new Checklist: Perfecting Your B2B Brand Identity helps B2B companies hone how their brand looks, feels, and sounds in the marketplace, which is a great first step to creating the voice that will transcend your content. What will be worth their time?

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B2B Paid Search Agency Guidelines Content 362

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

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

JUNE 15, 2021

When you hear the word “pruning,” you might think back to when you were a kid – your mother working out in the yard, chopping away at unruly bushes with an old pair of garden shears. Content pruning is an essential part of every content marketing strategy. Content pruning is an essential part of every content marketing strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2021, 82% of businesses use content marketing as part of their larger marketing strategy, but only about half feel that their efforts are successful. I would venture to guess that this problem is largely due to the fact that brands focus so much on new content that they forget to assess what they’ve already published.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools Content 342

Marketing Craftmanship

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Some firms avoid this pain by slapping their logo on boilerplate content purchased from a 3rd party, but those firms can pay a bigger price, in terms of brand damage. If it’s created in-house, few firms actually track the hours required to research, write, edit, approve and publish their newsletter.

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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

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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Content marketing is a contact sport. Such is the life of a content marketer, where you must balance content marketing strategy vs. execution. You can’t “win” at content marketing without a solid strategy. A fruitful content marketing return for your organization requires both strategy and execution. Image: CMI.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2021

If you were to step back in time into a marketing conference from a decade or so ago, content marketing SEO would be the buzzword you’d hear on everyone’s lips. But back then, content was only a vehicle for injecting keywords into blog posts and other website content. So much so that they link to it in their own content.

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SEO Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency 309

Anyword

MARCH 14, 2024

In the dynamic realm of digital marketing, every word you publish carries weight, poised to make or break your brand’s online presence. The challenge, however, has always been to predict the impact of your content before it goes live. This allows you to know how well your new content will do before publishing it.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 16, 2021

The way you write and publish your posts can impact your reach, authority, and overall success. The way you write and publish your social media posts can impact your reach, online authority, and overall success. Writing Social Media Content that Wins Every Time. Aim for around 2,000-word posts. A strategy. Let’s dive in.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 27, 2020

When you start a business, there’s a lot on your mind: how to fund all the equipment you’ll need, how to keep track of revenue and expenses, how to produce your goods and services economically enough to make a profit, and how to get the word out about what you offer. A content strategy? That’s the power of a robust content strategy.

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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. Granted, those factors make content marketing a long-term investment.

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B2B Marketing Directions

APRIL 7, 2024

Today, most potential buyers will form their first impression of your company based on the content you produce. If your content doesn't create a good first impression, potential buyers will quickly turn elsewhere, and you may not get another chance to connect with those buyers.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2024

What is Content Distribution? Content distribution is the strategy you apply to publishing, sharing, and promoting your content across multiple platforms and channels to ensure maximum reach and engagement. It’s not enough to hit “Publish.” It’s not enough to hit “Publish.”

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Contently

JANUARY 17, 2023

Where you see an innocuous sentence, they see words and phrases rife with assumptions, historical references, cliche, or some other anti-fact issue. Few content teams have someone with such a keen eye for facts. All content teams do, however, need everyone to buy into and use the following practices.

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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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ClearVoice

JANUARY 3, 2024

What is a content calendar? A content calendar is a document accessible to members of your content team that details the upcoming schedule of content along with topics, types of content, keywords, publish dates, etc. Why is a content calendar important? Research examples of content calendars.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Content curation is one of the most effective ways to keep your audience engaged without overwhelming yourself. It’s a process of exploring relevant content from reliable sources and sharing it with your audience to generate more traction. Content curation saves you the time and hassle of creating content from scratch.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A content marketer’s job is to create quality content that gets in front of readers organically. After all, what is content worth if you don’t access the readers who would most benefit from your writing? NLP platforms can analyze massive volumes of words and phrases to find meaning, patterns, and context.

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Kevin Indig

JUNE 19, 2023

Read more about JetOctopus JS tools Last week, three things happened that are all related: 1/ The editor-in-chief at Tom’s Hardware, Avram Piltch, published an op-ed about how SGE is a “50 megaton bomb” and will destroy the web ecosystem if launched in its current form. The web is facing massive disruption from AI.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As content marketers, the wealth of information driven by human language can help us understand our audience and impact our decisions. Integrating NLP Into Your Content Marketing Efforts As a content marketer, you may think of NLP as a term you would hear from your engineering friends.

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Kevin Indig

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Shot : On November 1st, The Verge published 8,855 words about SEOs ruining the internet. Chaser: Hours later, Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sullivan responded with 4,636 words. All 3 players - SEOs, publishers and Google - have a role to play in the decay of the web. Other publications in the SEO space followed.

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Animalz blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Creating content briefs. Repurposing content from one format to another. Risk of mediocrity and pumping out a ton of content that doesn’t help the bottom line. When faced with a technology that could reduce the marginal cost of content creation to almost zero (a webspammer’s dream), Google made the decision to deter its use.

Marketing AI 125

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Technological disruption is par for the course in content marketing. What’s the best way to put AI’s content capabilities in play? We asked some experts presenting at Content Marketing World for their top AI tips and recommendations. and you’ll see exactly what points your content needs to address.

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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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Marketing AI Content Work Management Loyalty 109