Contently

MAY 26, 2020

When I was making the transition from journalism to marketing, my first big epiphany came from a caveman cartoon. You make content, people click on it, and then—BOOM—they immediately buy something or fill out a demo request form. After all, if our search ads work that way, shouldn’t content work that way too?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

The search marketing industry is built to run like a macroeconomy. Search results are resources. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . As search marketers, we must assume that users on the internet are also rational. .

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 2, 2015

An email newsletter is a tremendously valuable distribution outlet many brands overlook. Often times, they get focused on distributing through social and paid resources, forgetting that the option of showing up in their customers’ or prospects’ inboxes on a regular basis is still an option. Determine your content.

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ClickZ

MARCH 16, 2023

Bad news pings incessantly on our phones: the job of the media cycle is to put people in a ‘fight or flight’ mode to gain their attention. Focus on significant, simple market shifts The amount of “risk capital being invested is dramatically down , following record highs, grounding all strategies for growth.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Are you looking for sustainable ways to market your business? Not sure where to start: email marketing vs. social media? Both email and social media marketing are promising channels to grow your business. In this post, we’ll share important insights into email and social media marketing. That’s 61.4%

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

For many companies, it’s the perfect time to start planning out content budgets — and for good reason. One, a content budget lets you allocate resources more efficiently. It determines how much you can invest in paid ads or tools like marketing automation. But what comprises a content budget?

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MKT1

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If you don’t seize the day, you’ll get left behind as a marketer and hinder your startup’s growth. So earlier this summer, I threw in a rallying crying of sorts at the end of my “Modern Marketing looks a lot like product ” Newsletter. We couldn’t turn all of our ideas into reality.

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Buffer

JANUARY 18, 2023

Behind every incredible creator is an army of tools — and even people — to support every stage of content creation. In this article, we’ll walk you through some of these tools and how they can support your content creation journey. AnswerthePublic Price : Free with limited access. ChatGPT Price : Free (for now).

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Content Standard

AUGUST 19, 2021

Silos can hold your team back—whether it’s a breakdown in communication between marketing and sales or marketing functions that just don’t work well together. Too often, content marketing is treated as something separate from the rest of your brand’s marketing.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Content Marketing Institute’s 13th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report has just been released and has some excellent insights for marketers as we move into 2023. Content marketing isn’t going anywhere. A documented marketing strategy is essential.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Instead of planning for 2018 when you’re already starting it in January, the most prepared B2B marketers already have priorities identified and plans for execution come January 1. We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget?

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When the PESO model —the confluence of paid, earned, shared, and owned media—was unveiled roughly five years ago, it solved marketers’ key question: “I have content, now what?” Or do all these changes in social media algorithms mean it’s best to get back to the drawing board?

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Brandpoint

MARCH 30, 2020

The image you convey and content you produce — whether as a speaker, writer, thought leader or CEO — all build your personal brand. Thinking like a content marketing professional can help you shape and boost your personal brand, making it possible to reach a wider network and audience than ever before.

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MKT1

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educating the rest of your company on marketing is often the hardest part of doing marketing. Marketing’s actual job is to understand an audience and communicate to that audience in a value-add way. Yet, when it comes to doing this internally, marketers often fall short–very, very short.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Competition for eyeballs and clicks are at a premium, so your email marketing strategy needs to constantly evolve to keep up. However, many companies still use generic tactics that haven’t been relevant in years — leading to disinterested customers frantically searching for the unsubscribe button. Is email marketing easy?

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MKT1

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the past couple years writing newsletters and working with hundreds of founders and marketers, we’ve developed a fairly-comprehensive approach to building B2B marketing. But more than that, we hope that this becomes an evergreen intro and summary to all of MKT1 ’s content.

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Parse.ly

MARCH 2, 2022

Heading into 2022, we wanted to learn more about the state of content marketing—what challenges content marketers are facing, what’s working for them, and what’s not. . With that in mind, we launched a detailed survey to marketers around the world. Content teams are often small, but budgets and teams are growing.

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LeadsRX

MARCH 9, 2022

Marketing and marketing technology (MarTech) have a lot of terms and acronyms, so here’s our list of the most common – and some not-so-common – terms, complete with definitions. Attribution refers to giving credit to a particular advertising campaign or collection of campaigns for conversions. Attribution. Any-Touch Attribution.

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Trade Press Services

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With more than 930 members and a targeted audience of business professionals, it’s no surprise that 96 percent of B2B marketers use LinkedIn for organic social marketing. 1. Lead Gen Forms are now directly integrated with LinkedIn ads and posts. Users can develop and share multiple newsletters under one account.

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MKT1

JULY 19, 2022

If the main goal of your content strategy is “producing 10 blog posts” you’re doing it wrong. You’re not thinking creatively enough about what content can be and you’re probably doing a lot of busywork making content that doesn’t move the needle. You need to expand your definition of content.

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MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 15, 2021

Marketers need to toe the line between keeping the doors open and staying top of mind for their clientele. They need to use creativity and resourcefulness. What does an effective digital marketing strategy look like in 2021 (and beyond)? Generating leads with B2B marketing strategies is not low effort.

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Optinmonster

MAY 11, 2023

You’ve already invested plenty of time and resources in building your business website. If you look at content marketing statistics , you’ll see that content marketing increases engagement and generates leads. But what is content marketing? Wondering how to promote your website for free?

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Liveintent

AUGUST 9, 2022

Brand awareness should be a top priority for marketers. This all means that marketers have a big opportunity to get in front of new audiences with widespread, multi-channel messaging. That’s part of why marketers across the globe say building brand awareness is their top marketing objective this year.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Editor’s note: Given the ongoing need for brands to use social media strategically, we are sharing this article updated from its original publication last year. Questioning where your Facebook ads might appear across its network of sites, including on Instagram and Messenger ? You’re not alone. joderama Click To Tweet. Think precision.

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Parse.ly

APRIL 4, 2019

For marketers with digital audiences, just as much effort has to go into distributing content as creating it – sometimes more! Efforts of social media managers, marketers, and audience development experts make sure discovery isn’t left to chance. What content do newsletter subscribers read?

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. How Do Paid Ads Work, Anyway?

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MKT1

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you lead content efforts at a startup, are the only marketer at an early-stage startup, or even a founder, you should make a content roadmap. A content list has a bunch of ideas without much regard for the potential impact, required effort, and coverage of your marketing goals.

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MKT1

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There’s no better time for me to share my thoughts on building a high-impact growth strategy–and what exercises you should go through that will actually lead you to the right growth marketing plan for your business. As I began writing this newsletter, I realized this is a 2 parter.

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Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 22, 2023

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Elena is a growth advisor and angel investor—you can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter , and don’t miss her amazing newsletter, Elena’s Growth Scoop. Q: How do I hire and build my first growth team?

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EveryoneSocial

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

When anyone describes marketing today, they’re most likely talking about digital marketing. Print ads, billboards, telemarketing, radio, and television were the main sources of marketing to audiences for decades. But today, there are many digital marketing channels that have changed the industry completely.

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MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I love seeing what’s possible when marketers think like product orgs and use the modern tools available to them to make high-value content. So I wrote this newsletter and made a video with some early-stage marketers to help. Part 2: Why marketing orgs need to become more like product orgs. Register here.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Customers’ expectations are rising and marketers are working to meet those expectations with personalized content at a growing number of touchpoints — from social, to website to mobile app to drive-through menu to virtual reality experience.

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The Marketing Blender

APRIL 5, 2022

The Basics of B2B Digital Marketing. B2B digital marketing is essential for any business-to-business company (B2B) looking to promote its products and services. But where should you begin with digital marketing? What Is B2B Digital Marketing? B2B Vs. B2C Digital Marketing: How Do They Differ? Who We Are.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Undoubtedly, your marketing team uses a variety of mediums to execute your marketing messages on a daily basis. Those mediums — including social media, email, and paid advertising — are part of what's called a business's media mix, a process that can be helpful for businesses that need a little organization.

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Contently

DECEMBER 5, 2016

My second thought was that this headline is going to absolutely kill it in search. After all, scaling your content marketing program is on a lot of people’s minds right now. And there’s never a more optimistic time in content than when you’re planning your ideal budget. It’s the future! ).

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