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. 5 Actionable Content Marketing Lessons for SaaS. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

Few content marketers can develop great material without input from one or more subject matter experts (SMEs). Product managers, salespeople, customer success managers, and solution engineers, among others, are critical resources for B2B writers. Show how the content will enhance his or her brand. Count me in that group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered if your paid content is actually doing its job? What you consider valuable content might be seen as worthless by your customers when they’re trying to make a purchase. Gated content filled with handy how-to guides and relevant research can be the fastest route for your clients to make up their minds.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Then, you should work with your marketing team on adding more journalistic content to your mix. Buyers are turning away from salesy ads and overtly promotional media and gravitating toward content that is educational and informative. You’ll attract better clients with journalistic content.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It sets great content apart from the average and helps you stand out from competitors. This post explores how combining the art of storytelling with hard data can create the most compelling content. To hold your audience’s attention: Storytelling is a great way to add interest and keep readers engaged with your content.

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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

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). Bad content isn’t going to propel a company forward. Most of it sucks.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2023

Find New Ideas for Content When you’re publishing weekly, bi-weekly, or daily (like we do here), you can soon start to struggle to come up with new ideas. For an example of how this works, you can use inurl:spaghetti or intitle:spaghetti to find sites with “spaghetti” in the URL or title.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of 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. It is a top tactic.

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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

JUNE 9, 2020

Campaigns don’t work. Your team or your agency defines a message, you pick a favorite creative approach, and a paid media channel, and hope that it will work? 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.

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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. When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. They can coexist and support each other, but there’s no better ROI for your efforts than what you’ll experience with content marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2023

The Content Marketer Sorting Hat — Which house are you? That’s why when we think about brands who embody the Gryffindor spirit, we think of serious content marketing trailblazers — ones whose daring content has made them well known by just about everyone. Let’s look at a few Gryffindor-esque content examples.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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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. Quick Takeaways: Your content marketing strategy needs more than a perfectly optimized website.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Case studies help you build a story around your customers, products, and services. You can prove – through brand storytelling – that what you offer consumers works. And 90% trust what other customers say about a company over what the company says about itself. What are Case Studies in Content Marketing?

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Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. Those ideas can really move the needle.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Video is now the main way people consume content online. Much of that video content is pure entertainment , but consumers are itching for branded videos. In fact, 91% of people say they’d like to see more videos from companies they support. In return, you’ll feature them on those channels.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The healthcare content landscape has undergone various transformative innovations. The engagement between healthcare companies and their patients is now bridged by various content types, such as articles, micro videos, live streams, and augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR), just to name a few.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s just say it: Most branded content isn’t very good. I worked for years as a content strategist. I’ve spent the last decade researching and reporting on the content marketing industry. Along the way, I’ve probably consumed more pieces of branded content than anyone else. I should know.

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Brandpoint

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s no secret that video content is the name of the game when it comes to generating social media impressions, engagement and traffic. Here are some of the stand-out factoids from HubSpot and Vidyard’s 2022 Video Benchmark Report : Video creation increased 178% from 2020 to 2021. I gotta do more of it.

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Scoop.it

APRIL 13, 2023

720.000 video hours go to YouTube daily, and users consume 1 billion hours of video every day. billion active users, and 68% watch a video to help them make a purchase decision. YouTube ads receive viewer attention 84% of the time, and users are three times more likely to watch a video tutorial or guide than to read it.

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Scoop.it

MAY 4, 2023

In a world where AI is taking over quite a few functions, including writing, genuine human-generated content is still valuable, as humans can provide a context to their content. The same survey also revealed that 58% of consumers worldwide viewed user-generated content as the most authentic content amidst everything a brand published.

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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. But there’s a problem.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Dig deeper: Why we care about AI in marketing Anyone can play AI tools now exist that anyone can use, and instead of operating behind the scenes, these tools are creating works of art that are front and center. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of articles aimed at helping marketers make the most of Generative AI.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

However, ephemeral content is often overlooked in favor of long-form and feed content to achieve these goals. If leveraged properly, ephemeral content can help you beat the algorithm and keep your brand top of mind. What is ephemeral content? Stories can be a great way to drive leads and customers.

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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. Read on for a good benchmark of your content marketing efforts.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Since the launch of tools like ChatGPT and other LLMs, users across the globe have started finding opportunities to leverage them to create content. Nowadays, from email copies, product descriptions, and creating social media posts using AI to detailed blog posts, AI-generated content is everywhere. What’s AI-Generated Content?

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people. Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. In this way, content is a long play, winning trust over time. Let’s start with the business brass tacks.

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Valasys

JULY 31, 2023

Introduction In the era of information overload, businesses need to deliver timely and relevant content to their audiences to stay ahead in the market. Content Automation tools play a pivotal role in streamlining the content workflow, enabling organizations to produce and distribute content at scale without compromising on quality.

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Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Which roles within your organization work on the tasks identified and who needs access to the AI tools? What type of customer support are you looking for? Target users.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Do you think content curation is just another term for content creation? Content creation means creating and publishing new content on your blog, social media, or website for your own specific purposes. But here’s the deal with content creation. Consider supplementing content creation with content curation.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 13, 2022

Content marketing has long been a staple of B2B marketing and continues to be so as 2022 brings more opportunities and challenges for content ideation, creation and distribution. Here, we take a look some shifts in content marketing over the past year and how that impacts strategy, planning, and execution moving forward.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. But these days, a more accurate statement is probably: customer experience is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . How important is personalization in content marketing?

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Buffer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Despite its limitations – only having data up to 2021 and sometimes spouting wrong information – ChatGPT is an incredibly powerful tool that is poised to change the way content creators work. As audiences demand more content across different platforms, the number of content creators is growing to meet the demand.

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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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Sprout Social

JUNE 29, 2023

In late 2009, Domino’s released a brutally honest commercial, publicizing customers’ overwhelmingly negative feelings about their pizza—and asking folks to give them a second chance. Enter: lo-fi content. Publishing visuals and video that hasn’t been scrutinized in creative briefs and edited ad nauseum carries a degree of risk.

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