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

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2020, 70% of marketers were already actively investing in content marketing ( HubSpot ). 79% of B2B content marketers say their organization has a content marketing strategy ( Content Marketing Institute). It can help you convert leads and win new customers. Quick Takeaways.

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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

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

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

APRIL 6, 2021

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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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

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

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

MAY 1, 2023

The AI-fueled transformation of content marketing is both exhilarating and distressing. OpenAI and an avalanche of new content tools and best practices are overwhelming many content marketers. Similarly, a business has a mission to help customers solve a problem. Customer interviews. SEO pillar pages.

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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

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.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Whenever someone posts on social media, searches on Google, writes a product review, or engages with a chatbot, they leave behind a trail of information. As content marketers, the wealth of information driven by human language can help us understand our audience and impact our decisions.

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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 27, 2020

The best way to do that – and statistics back it up – is content marketing. Did you know that even if you inherited a windfall, you could spend those hundreds of thousands on slick TV ads only to have some other upstart (who does do content marketing) rake in three times your leads?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Learn what creating content like a journalist really means and discover our best tips on how to do so. Key Takeaways: Creating journalistic content means writing articles that adhere to high standards of integrity while telling a compelling story. You’ll attract better clients with journalistic content.

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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. I just write my own.”.

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content. Below, I delve into the content marketing lifecycle to show how content teams are incorporating generative AI at different stages.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2020

Content marketing is helping e-commerce brands like never before. In the past, you might have been able to get real ROI from lazily publishing 500-word articles on your blog week after week, but it’s not enough anymore. How Content Marketing is Changing. Keeping a consistent weekly publishing schedule.

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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

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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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

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. If content marketers can leverage the gains we’ve made over the past year to boost those numbers even more, certainly, the best days of content marketing are still ahead.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Case studies help you build a story around your customers, products, and services. And 90% trust what other customers say about a company over what the company says about itself. The longer-form content goes more in depth to describe a problem, solution, and outcome – all while keeping the customer at the center of the story.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Whether you’re a freelancer, a content marketing agency, or an in-house marketing professional hired to manage a brand’s content, you need to make the most of your existing strengths in content marketing creation, but you also need to shore up your weaknesses and develop your lesser skill sets.

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Brandpoint

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In the marketing world, it’s easy to confuse copywriting and content marketing. One person might say, “I wrote that copy,” and another, “I wrote that content.” However, content marketing and copywriting are distinctly different. What is content marketing? Why is content marketing important?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

It's important for companies to engage in content marketing to build their online presence and grow brand awareness outside of word of mouth. The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems.

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 14, 2023

Launched by John Deere in 1895, The Furrow, also known as the “Journal for the American Farmer,” is one of the earliest examples of content marketing. The Furrow is still going strong, and so is content marketing. When done right, content marketing can help companies achieve several business goals.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Content continues to reign supreme year after year. However, there’s much more to content marketing than publishing loads of content pieces for your business. Data is key to adapting and adjusting your content marketing strategy for success. The State of Content Marketing.

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Exo B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was while reading a post on Mark Schaefer’s blog that I got the idea to write this post on B2B content marketing and especially on the importance of creating content on YOUR website or blog and then using social networks to spread it further. A social network like LinkedIn isn’t a content platform.

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Animalz blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Two years of experimenting with a host of generative writing tools — GPT-3, Copy.ai, Writer, Jasper, and ChatGPT. And because we think it’s an advantage, we’re incorporating it — in thoughtful, measured ways — into the work we do for ourselves and for customers also interested in experimenting. But our decision is: it’s an advantage.

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Contently

APRIL 2, 2018

People often talk about content marketing like its the flashy new gadget in a marketer’s toolbox. While the practice has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years, the principles of content marketing have been around for centuries. After a few decades, each issue reached millions of customers.

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Tiecas

JANUARY 27, 2024

Industrial blogs are an integral part of manufacturing content marketing. Industrial blogging is an essential digital marketing tool for manufacturers looking to establish themselves as thought leaders and engage with engineers and technical professionals. For manufacturers, creating industrial blogs is a challenge.

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Exo B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

I recently published on LinkedIn, part of the results of CMI’s annual content marketing study, “B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Outlook for 2024” This publication focused on LinkedIn’s dominance as the social network of choice for the vast majority of those who publish B2B content on social networks.

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Contently

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, nearly 50% of shoppers today begin their research with a search engine — so ranking on the first page of search engine results pages (SERPs) can offer serious opportunities to reach your ideal customers. That said, brands should embrace both social media and a solid SEO strategy to make the most of their content marketing campaigns.

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Brandpoint

JULY 16, 2020

So you recognize that your company could really benefit from a solid, well-conceived content marketing strategy. But perhaps you don’t know where to find the writing, design and marketing strategy professionals who can help make that happen. Content marketing agencies across the U.S.

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