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B2B Reads: Patience & Urgency, Business Agility, and Brand Storytelling

Heinz Marketing

How Do You Combine Patience and Urgency? Since patience and urgency are pretty much the opposite of each other, it’s easy to think that they’d be mutually exclusive but thats not necessarily true. Here are a few other distinctions between patience and urgency that may be useful. Thank you for the insightful read, Ayaz Nanji.

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Scarcity Principle: How to Create Demand Using Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Scarcity marketing creates demand by playing on people’s fear of missing out or aversion to loss of a product or service. Emphasizing limited product availability, using time to create urgency, and highlighting demand with social proof are all scarcity tactics that motivate customers to act. Emphasize limited availability.

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6 Kinds of Action Words Your Content Marketing Needs

Marketing Insider Group

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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The power of a ‘real-time’ content marketing strategy

Tomorrow People

B2B brands need to own the moment and harness real-time content marketing to be different. Real-time is the next frontier in the advancing journey of a content marketing strategy. And it’s not just B2C brands who are embracing real-time content marketing either. Why a real-time content marketing strategy?

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How To Use the Hero’s Journey for Content Marketing: A Good Story Goes A Long Way

Marketing Insider Group

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. Sometimes you can find the threads of a story (aka a narrative) in the messaging your product marketing team developed.

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Top Learnings Around Content Marketing from INBOUND 2020

SmartBug Media

Content Marketing has been a popular theme during the first day of INBOUND this year. Our SmartBug ® strategists and consultants have compiled today’s session highlights and are sharing their top insights around the different sessions that took place today around Content Marketing. Countdown clock. Private Facebook group.

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How to Make the Case for Content Marketing in Uncertain Times

Contently

Given how the coronavirus has changed our jobs as marketers , there’s a good chance you should too. The compounding returns of content. The biggest mistake people make with content marketing ROI is taking a short-term view. The vast majority of advertising and marketing is fleeting.