Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2021

Who is the one true king of marketing? What if I told you the answer was quality content? Content is king today and will still be on the throne tomorrow. In 2020, 70% of marketers were already actively investing in content marketing ( HubSpot ). It can help you convert leads and win new customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If your brand is earning tons of web traffic but seems lean on conversions, you might need more action words in your content marketing. Action words turn consumers from simple readers of your content into engaged potential customers. If you’re publishing content, you probably already are, but maybe not optimally.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Content marketing can be a highly effective way to build brand awareness. With every piece of branded content an individual sees, they become more familiar with your brand. Content can help to build your brand in several different ways. The more content you publish, the more exposure you give your brand.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2023

As content marketers, we are always on the hunt for interesting data to grab reader attention and support our claims. The journalistic protocol is to cite an original, authoritative source that is transparent about its methodology (like the description on page 41 in CMI’s annual B2C Content Marketing Report.)

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

As data analytics grow in sophistication, measuring the results of your marketing efforts becomes even more critical to your company’s success. So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. The Pillars of Content Marketing and How They Improve Sales. Conversions.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2021

Every business wants more customers and leads, but many aren’t sure about the best way to get them. While many marketing tactics can generate quantifiable business results, some do it better than others. When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. Content marketing wins ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Is anybody successful with content marketing? Content marketing with a thoughtful strategy and plan doesn’t usually provide the ROI (return on investment) expected. For anybody to be successful with content marketing, you must define success. There are certain must-haves for success in content marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 4, 2020

Content marketing and the technology industry are a natural fit for each other. Tech companies can take advantage of a blog writing service to educate their customers, who will naturally be searching online for information about complex topics. But content marketing in the tech industry can also be quite competitive.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

As video marketing continues taking the world by storm, more businesses adopt it as a pivotal strategy to educate consumers, generate leads, and boost ROI. Video marketing can be a powerful way to reach new prospects and provide extra value to new and long-term customers alike. 93% say it’s an integral part of their strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

Debate raged for a long time about whether SaaS companies really needed content marketing. In 2022, that debate is dead — content is a critical piece of successful digital marketing for every SaaS brand. Topics covered in SaaS content are often technical. Topics covered in SaaS content are often technical.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this point, there’s no denying that content marketing is being used by most companies. In this post, we’ll be looking at how to tell if content marketing saturation has hit your industry. Content marketing is highly prevalent in just about every industry, making it hard to cut through the noise.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). How Much Ineffective B2B Content Is Out There? Most of it sucks.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Conduct a Market Analysis.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. The first challenge we have to overcome is the belief that marketing is just about creating ads. Utilization.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The measure of any marketing strategy is in its effectiveness. In content marketing, we measure effectiveness by the amount of organic search traffic and rankings we deliver for our clients. And that is derived from the value our content brings to a brand’s prospects and current customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2020

This is why always-on content marketing wins every time: each piece of content is a test. You learn every time you publish and share. According to CMI, only 9% of B2B marketers believe that their content strategy is effective. The reason is their strategy revolved around one-off content and campaigns.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

‘Tis the season to believe in the holiday spirit AND the power of content marketing. If you’re new here, content marketing is a business opportunity to reach and convert new customers. It drives measurable results through powerful story-telling that’ll hit home with your customers. A broad content spectrum.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As the volume of online content grows daily, it can be difficult to make sure your voice is heard over the noise. Thought leadership content marketing is one of the most effective ways of establishing your name and company as an authority in your industry. But what exactly is thought leadership content marketing ?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 13, 2020

As a content marketing consulting company, we here at MIG wouldn’t be authentic if we didn’t take our own medicine. If we’re going to be content marketing experts, we’ve got to walk the walk. We are keenly aware that one of the biggest struggles any company deals with is generating more organic traffic.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2021

If you were to step back in time into a marketing conference from a decade or so ago, content marketing SEO would be the buzzword you’d hear on everyone’s lips. But back then, content was only a vehicle for injecting keywords into blog posts and other website content. Let the customer be the conquering hero.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 13, 2021

While it’s impossible to control everything related to your brand online, you can manage your online reputation with content marketing. With content marketing , you control the story. Your blogs, videos, social media posts, and every other aspect of content marketing are all within your realm to dictate.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 1, 2021

With businesses conducting more of their communication online even before the pandemic’s onset, content marketing has taken on a greater role. According to an October 2020 Statista report , global web traffic and time per session increased by 1.5 Provide a Superb Customer Experience with Quality Content.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 17, 2021

“Is content marketing the right choice for my business?” Content marketing isn’t just one of those trends that come and go in the marketing world. It’s an essential ingredient in marketing success in the digital universe. After all, it appears on a content marketing agency’s blog, right?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But if you don’t put careful thought into the content of your company blog, it’s a waste of time and money. The creators behind the best company blogs take the time to understand the needs of their audience before crafting content to fit, as these content marketing examples show. Quick Takeaways. Your Company Blog?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How does a relatively small marketing organization scale its content strategy and deliver more valuable content to its customer base? Customers crave useful and informative content, but in a busy company, there are only so many hours in a day—and often not enough to produce the quantities of content it needs.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

I’m a big believer in making the content you publish the hub around which your content marketing strategy revolves. However, to rock content marketing in today’s omni-channel world, social media plays a key supporting role. Even if you’ve optimized like crazy to attract Mr. Top Customer Persona.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 5, 2021

SEO is something content marketers have to tweak and refine continuously. In this post, we’ll break down the two concepts and examine how they impact SEO and content marketing. In this post, we’ll break down the two concepts and examine how they impact SEO and content marketing. Key Takeaways. High E-A-T.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2020

In today’s “cancel culture,” many businesses and other organizations are thinking it might be best to avoid opinionated content marketing. They believe that taking a stand that might offend some people will drive potential customers away. What is the number one goal of content marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 8, 2020

Successful content marketing is all about solving your customers’ problems. We need to think of content marketing as our solution, more than our products. Because when you show customers how to face their challenges and come out victorious on the other side, it builds trust. I can’t say it enough.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, having a content marketing program tends to be a given. But one of the challenges of having a baseline assumption is that it can be easy to lose sight of why content marketing became such a cornerstone of B2B marketing in the first place.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

While content personalization isn’t easy, there are lots of opportunities to delight your customers with it. To provide content marketers with some guidance, we’ve gathered some great personalization strategies you’ll want to try. Content personalization is a way to build trust and loyalty with customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Content marketing is leading the way for effective marketers. Many businesses hire content marketing agencies to help develop and distribute their messaging. However, there are some potential content marketing agency problems you want to consider. Content marketing agencies offer numerous benefits.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2021

Every year, I have tons of prospects who ask me, “Is content marketing right for my industry?”. Either they think they don’t need content marketing because everyone knows they’re there – or they don’t quite know how to explain what they do and why people need their product. And sadly, they’re wrong on both counts.

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Navigate the Channel

JUNE 19, 2023

After you hit publish on the content you’ve created, it can be tough to manage your ROI expectations. Your content writers are good, fast and know what they’re doing, so why shouldn’t you expect hundreds of views and requests for further information or engagement? WHY IS IT NOT HAPPENING? We know that’s not shocking.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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