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How Can Paid Media Boost Your Inbound Marketing Efforts?

SmartBug Media

There are three distinct types of media that make up any digital marketing mix: earned, owned, and paid media. Inbound marketing traditionally couples the latter two; it’s a method to draw in your audience with stellar website content, blog articles, premium content, and social media engagement.

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5 Most Common Fails in B2B Search Campaigns

The Point

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges.

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SEO vs. SEM: Combining the Two to Maximize SERP Real Estate

Brightedge

Using SEM and SEO together will drive traffic using both organic and paid strategies. Creating data-driven content that is fresh, unique and informative for users, not bots, will help drive ranks. Well-developed content that provides real value to readers is one of the most crucial parts of SEO. What is SEM?

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SEO vs. SEM: The Guide to Optimization

ClearVoice

As you build your career in content marketing, you should challenge yourself to create new desirable skill sets. Over the past several years, becoming SEO and SEM savvy has grown in importance to remain relevant and build a lucrative career. How SEO and SEM work together. What SEM is. How SEO and SEM are alike.

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Sizzling Search Strategy: How Demandbase optimized SEM for Account-Based Marketing

DemandBase

Can search engine marketing (SEM) target specific accounts and minimize waste from unqualified respondents? SEM by definition is a top-of-funnel, quantity-focused channel. No technology currently exists that uses SEM to target accounts. How can you leverage SEM to aid and abet Account-Based Marketing?

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SEM for B2B – Best Practices and Ad Types to Use in SEM for B2B

QuanticMind

?SEM for B2B is a different space than consumer marketing. Here, we’ll discuss some of the tactics and ad types you can use today in SEM for B2B. SEM for B2B (business-to-business companies) is a bit different than what marketers normally think about when they discuss search engine marketing.

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Leveraging Paid Search Insights to Optimize Other Advertising Channels

QuanticMind

Over the last decade, there has been an extraordinary growth of technology that empowers marketers to collect and then leverage troves of data across each of the varying stages of their buying cycle. Of course, being data-driven is much trickier than it would first appear.