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Writing About Ideas: Sharing Opinions Nurtures Brand-Consumer Relationships

ClearVoice

For example, one of my content marketing brand clients publishes a health-focused magazine. Customer stories. These articles are celebrated for their sound reasoning, moral purpose and ability to influence public opinion. Do share the opinionated nature of the content. Behind the scenes is a pharmacy delivery service.

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Power Opinions - BANT is BUNK … Revisited

ViewPoint

I summarized Ardath’s thoughts, and mine, in a blog published on July 11, 2013. Next, I reached out to my Power Opinions team (PowerViews alumni) to find out what they thought about BANT. This has traditionally been a sales team responsibility, and in my opinion should remain so.". BANT has always been BUNK for salespeople. "The

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9 Places to Source Authoritative Stats for Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

” Maybe you were never burned by using the first number you found, only to discover it’s from a blog post that points to an article published three years ago, which in turn links to a white paper from 2012, which referenced the original statistic in a 1998 university study. You’ll find these firms quoted often in the press.

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The 6-Step Guide to Creating a Thought Leadership Content Program

Contently

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. Thought leaders inspire or move others to action with new ideas, uncommon opinions, predictions, or industry commentary. Those ideas can really move the needle.

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How to Use Content Marketing for Customer Retention

Marketing Insider Group

You probably already know how powerful customer retention can be for your business. However, in today’s world, where we can utilize predictive analytics tools to create highly personalized experiences for customers, it’s critical to focus on delivering value over making a sale or focusing too much on cost. With content marketing.

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What social media tasks to automate and what to personalize

Sprout Social

Creating a content calendar that outlines the mix of formats, themes and publishing schedule. Key social media tasks for successful collaboration include: Building relationships with key stakeholders in marketing, sales, product and customer service. Defining clear objectives and KPIs aligned with your overall business goals.

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How Marketers are Rethinking the Content Generation Process [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

Making content is not a project, it’s a process — a very specialized one — and trying to use tools that were meant to be very broad, like project management software, or tools that are having to be repurposed from number crunching and accounting, like Excel, for content creation — it just makes things harder.

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