Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This article is the follow-up to an August post about 25 frequently asked questions about content marketing. Do you get asked tough, or even easy, questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? And, when we had a few unanswered questions, we curated responses from expert sources.

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There has never been a better time to utilize content marketing to drive business, create high-quality marketing initiatives, and provide long-term value to your customers or clients. Simply put, content marketing has exploded in the past several years. Leverage the Top Marketing Channels with Your Content.

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Lake One

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales and marketing misalignment can lead to a domino effect of problems such as internal tension, inability to achieve goals, and even revenue loss. How aligned are your sales and marketing teams? Interested in some mind-blowing sales and marketing alignment stats? Marketing Qualified Lead. Check out this post.

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DivvyHQ

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Getting your content in front of your target customers is essential to content marketing success. But with so much online noise, helping your audience discover your content can challenge even the finest enterprise content teams.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Well, it is, meaning it''s that time of year again to start planning for the year ahead and thinking about everything you want your marketing to achieve -- more leads, more website traffic, you name it. One aspect of marketing (and my personal favorite topic) that saw tremendous strides for marketers was social media.

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Optinmonster

APRIL 27, 2020

Ready for the worst bit of marketing advice you’ll ever hear? ” That line makes for a killer movie, but an equally awful marketing strategy. The truth is that if you want new leads, you need to learn how to promote a product to maximize conversions. The Crucial Ingredient Before You Promote Your Product.

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Scoop.it

MAY 9, 2024

“Content distribution” is a phrase that may seem mystifying to you. However, when it’s working well, it simplifies your content creation efforts. One piece of high-quality content can work for you repeatedly by simply breaking it into 5–7 pieces and distributing it across several different marketing channels.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Manufacturing has an old-school reputation that has resulted in a slow adoption of newer technologies, including digital marketing tools. But by 2022, 49 percent of manufacturing buyers expect to make most of their purchases online. Here are some ways that manufacturers can use digital marketing to stand out in a competitive market.

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Hubspot

JUNE 3, 2016

When it comes to establishing trust, it doesn’t matter how compelling your calls-to-action are, how engaging your content is, or how quickly your pages load on mobile screens. For B2B buyers to be open to engaging with you, they need to feel confident that you’ve got their best interests in mind for the long haul.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Content marketing plays an essential role for both B2C and B2-B businesses. The best way to develop a successful B2B content marketing strategy is to understand precisely which business you cater to, where they’re coming from, and how you can continuously deliver on their expectations and business needs.

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Single Grain

MARCH 28, 2023

So you’ve got a SaaS platform that you want to promote. There are a variety of marketing methods you can employ to promote your SaaS product , but today, we’re going to hone in on one in particular: PPC for SaaS. PPC also provides SaaS companies with a way to measure the success of their marketing efforts.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2019

Perform a Google search on “content creation strategy,” and you’ll get millions of results offering tips, ideas and templates to help you get started. What are your biggest challenges with content? Content created for the sake of content or to meet some self-imposed publishing schedule isn’t enough. Start here.

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Valasys

JANUARY 20, 2023

B2B Marketing vs Traditional Marketing So, a disclaimer to begin with: This is not yet another blog talking about sales funnel or inverted funnel, or AIDA model! And yes, although, we will talk about the B2B marketing funnel, we’ve something more for you here. Marketing funnels are extremely specific to your niche & sector.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 25, 2019

If you are an inbound marketer in the B2B space, you understand how much time and energy goes into planning and executing your marketing campaigns. Success not only requires a solid inbound strategy, but it also requires knowledge of the latest marketing, content, and design best practices. SmartBug Media™.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

As we head into mid-decade, the state of online advertising and communication continues to be constantly evolving. Major categories for me are content marketing, marketing automation, SEO, paid search, analytics, online display (programmatic and retargeting), mobile, conversion optimization, social media marketing, and social selling.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 21, 2022

Marketers need a carefully crafted content plan to execute content marketing campaigns with clarity and effectiveness. However, many are still confused about what content plans are, the role they play in content marketing, and how to create one that will yield meaningful results.

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Only B2B

MARCH 15, 2018

In a world where content is king, B2B blogging can have a huge impact on the success of your organization in terms of leads, brand awareness, customer engagement, and even revenue. Consider the following statistics: B2B marketers who blog generate 67% more leads than those who do not ( source ). Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Valasys

AUGUST 26, 2019

Seth Godin, the famous American author & entrepreneur stated the importance of content marketeering as follows: “Content Marketing is all the Marketing that’s left.”. Having the brains for awe is something that lays the foundation for the marketers to introspect & think beyond the established patterns.

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Single Grain

APRIL 22, 2022

Content marketing is one of the most powerful ways for businesses to connect with their target audience in today’s digital world. However, you can only get the best results from your content if you know how to use your assets correctly. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ↓ What Is a Content Strategy Agency?

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SnapApp

JANUARY 13, 2017

So you’ve got a great piece of content. What’s your plan to make sure that your audience sees the content? Without promoting your content, it just sits there on your website looking pretty. If your website has enough SEO power, some people might stumble upon it through search engines – but that’s about it.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 12, 2017

So you’ve got a great piece of content. What’s your plan to make sure that your audience sees the content? Without promoting your content, it just sits there on your website looking pretty. If your website has enough SEO power, some people might stumble upon it through search engines – but that’s about it.

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Single Grain

MAY 24, 2021

Audio SEO is rising at a greater speed than you can imagine, and now podcasts have positioned themselves on the first page of the Google search results. I will also share some of the best audio SEO strategies that you can use to promote your audio assets to grab more listeners. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ↓ What Is Audio SEO?

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SmartBug Media

MAY 29, 2020

Whether you’re a small or mid-sized business or a large corporate organization, you and your employees are most likely being stretched thin as you’re tasked to create and optimize a successful marketing strategy. Inbound marketing is a strategy that utilizes many methods of marketing to create brand awareness and attract new business.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We’re not here to sell you on the effectiveness of video as a marketing tactic—if you’ve been online even once in the last five years, you’re likely already aware. YouTube is often referred to as a social media platform—used to share immersive, high-quality video content that educates and engages potential prospects and existing customers.

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Single Grain

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

1) Tailor Your Product/Service for Your Target Market. Create User Personas for Clearer Understanding. Start with one persona at first so that your team members have a clear structure. Dive Deeper: The Ultimate Guide to Developing Buyer Personas (with Templates!). Get A Free Consultation. Get A Free Consultation.

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Huptech Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Table Of Contents Introduction D2C Marketing VS B2C Marketing What Actually Inbound Marketing Is? Understand Inbound Methodology What is an Inbound Marketing Funnel? Scrolling through your social media feed, you see an ad for a pair of boots. Well, let’s break it down. Annoying, right?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2016

This is episode two of my new show: Marketing Marvels. There is A LOT of marketing technology out there, and it’s difficult to know what all the platforms and packages do, whether it makes sense for your business, how it stacks up to competitors, and a bunch of other key questions. Marketing Marvels viewers get a two week free trial.

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nDash

JUNE 9, 2021

With over two billion online shoppers and over half of website visitors spending less than 15 seconds on a website, marketers must use every tool in their arsenal to keep a prospect’s attention. Lead magnets help marketers curate lists, build value, and promote more. That’s where lead magnets come into play.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 31, 2017

Though this shift might seem minor, it greatly impacts how marketing teams operate, sales teams engage, and how purchase decisions are ultimately made. . For B2B marketing and sales teams to continue finding success, they must be able to identify, acknowledge, and respond to the generational differences of today’s new buying committees. .

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Single Grain

JUNE 9, 2022

So if you want to promote your NFT collection to the right audience to get the best value for your digital assets, it's a good idea to hire an NFT influencer agency. However, selecting an NFT influencer marketing firm can be challenging, especially when so many digital marketing agencies claim to be the best in the market.

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Inbox Insight

MAY 7, 2024

These ideas can be seamlessly incorporated into your marketing efforts, empowering you to accelerate your B2B sales and achieve rapid growth. Statistically, 50% of marketers who employ lead magnets report higher conversion rates , highlighting the importance of these tools for optimizing the sales funnel. What makes a good lead magnet?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 7, 2012

Content marketing is a hot topic of discussion in almost every marketing organization. As business buyers and consumers continue to tune out the increasing noise of product promotion from brands, content marketing is being called out as the answer to the declining response rates and increasing costs of outbound marketing.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

For content creators, sometimes the most stressful part of the role can be opening a completely blank document to start a new project. Whether it's writing a blog post, designing an infographic, or creating an ebook, it's challenging to start creating a new piece of content from scratch, especially if you've never done it before.

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SnapApp

APRIL 7, 2016

It’s hard to deny the advantages to having a solid marketing technology stack to enhance your content campaigns. Marketing technology provides new research methods, helps scale your content production, and allows you to better promote and measure your campaigns across many different channels throughout the funnel.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As I shared in Content Creation Robots Are Here , billions of AI-created pieces of content are published yearly. What does this mean for humans who create content? Despite the growth in artificial intelligence capabilities, the human content writer is needed more than ever. I paid $1.90 Click To Tweet. The result?

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Single Grain

MAY 4, 2022

WordPress is a top content management system that powers 35% of the total active websites on the Internet. But don't just hire any digital marketing agency, because knowing SEO doesn't automatically make them a WordPress SEO expert. To make it easier for you, we've curated a list of the top 8 WordPress SEO agencies.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. Content marketing is the kind of marketing that delivers ROI you can measure. Unlike other methods of marketing, content marketing stands out because it is completely sustainable.

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