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Content Marketing is the New PR

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That is the title of a recent Aberdeen Group report, Publish or Perish: Content Marketing is the New PR, which you can download for free (registration required) here. Content Marketing Leaders and Followers. 12% growth in year-over-year company revenue (vs 3.5% for followers). 20% year-over-year increase in media mentions (v 2.7%

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Content Marketing is the New PR

The Effective Marketer

That is the title of a recent Aberdeen Group report, Publish or Perish: Content Marketing is the New PR, which you can download for free (registration required) here. Content Marketing Leaders and Followers. 12% growth in year-over-year company revenue (vs 3.5% for followers). 20% year-over-year increase in media mentions (v 2.7%

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Effective Content is Clear and Direct

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A recent post by David Meerman Scott touched on a big pet peeve of mine… creating content that is easy to understand. Gobbledygook is spread everywhere, from press releases to website content, to the latest whitepaper or eBook. Clear and Direct Content Wins All the time. Happy content creation! Big mistake.

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What My Paper Route Taught Me about Content Marketing

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My career in content marketing started at age 12. Every day I’d load up my red Schwinn Varsity bicycle with The Aurora Beacon News and head out to make deliveries, learning valuable lessons about digital content marketing that just starting to sink in lately. 1. Content Marketing Is Hard Work. See his bio at the end.

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How to Build a Content Development Plan for Your Site

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Have you ever visited a website that looked like a teenager’s bedroom – content strewn about everywhere, overflowing with information yet impossible to find what you’re looking for? This often happens when a firm fails to make a long-term content development plan a component of its new site launch. Content Categories and Subcategories.

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Marketing Content That Sells

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. Who’s going to write all that new content? But why the focus on content?

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inbound marketing training for free

The Effective Marketer

Review of the first 5 classes: Class: How to Blog Effectively for Business (GF101) Professors: Ann Handley & Mack Collier, MarketingProfs This was a basic introduction to blogging, so for those already familiar with what blogging is, there wasn’t much new content. Do you have the people?