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Your Content Focus: Narrow vs Wide

The Effective Marketer

After getting your first content marketing pieces out there, the question usually revolves around “what’s next?” When asked about the narrow vs wide focus in content marketing, my first question is always “what is your goal?” What content has already been created? So how do you solve this?

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A Content Framework for Sales Enablement

The Effective Marketer

With all the hype around content marketing, all the attention is typically on the front-end, customer-facing content materials. That involves emails, eBooks, whitepapers, videos, and the myriad of other content deliverables that are focused on lead nurturing and demand generation. Sales Enablement Content.

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A Content Framework for Sales Enablement

The Effective Marketer

With all the hype around content marketing, all the attention is typically on the front-end, customer-facing content materials. That involves emails, eBooks, whitepapers, videos, and the myriad of other content deliverables that are focused on lead nurturing and demand generation. Sales Enablement Content.

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Marketing Automation is More Than Technology

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The magic relies on the higher conversion rates throughout the sales cycle. It’s About Content and Processes. And when the process includes both sales and marketing working together on definitions, on content strategy, and qualification criteria companies see higher response rates overall.

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When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

The Effective Marketer

It seems that every eBook, blog post, and webinar is now touting content marketing and inbound marketing as the go-to strategies for the new marketers. Content developed for inbound marketing should be more focused on your prospects’ problems and concerns than on your product or solution – Marketo. Shorten sales cycle.

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The State of Demand Generation

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Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?). And so, there are new roles coming down the pike based on each of the critical tasks mentioned before: Seed : Content strategist.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

The Effective Marketer

Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. Make sure to validate with sales and other relevant departments. Step 3: Content Marketing Audit.