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

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? Whether you are new to the riveting world of content or are a self-ascribed expert (i.e. content addict), there is always more to learn. They say ‘content is king’, but, if handled well, it is far more than this.

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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

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. Here are several ways to make your social strategy put in an Oscar-winning performance.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Content marketing is a contact sport. Such is the life of a content marketer, where you must balance content marketing strategy vs. execution. You can’t “win” at content marketing without a solid strategy. A fruitful content marketing return for your organization requires both strategy and execution.

Marketing & Strategy 363

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Kapost

JUNE 2, 2017

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content marketing. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Now don’t get me wrong.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s why it’s essential to understand the reasoning behind all that content. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? How to Develop a Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth. Drawing the line between B2B and B2C SEO content The defining difference between B2B and B2C is that one targets businesses and professionals, while the other targets individual consumers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 2, 2021

When it comes to content marketing, how do you know what to write about? The answer is simple: conduct a content gap analysis. In short, this analysis will help you find gaps in your content marketing strategy and show you exactly how to fill them. What is Content Gap Analysis? Quick Takeaways. Source: CoSchedule.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Enabling sales: How to build an effective program Building any new strategy starts with goals. With these goals in mind, you can more effectively focus on the strategies and tools that help you get there. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Iterate and refine.

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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. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Now is the time to become an expert on creating video content. With all of the benefits that come along with creating video content, like building your brand identity and increasing your SEO , there’s no reason why your company should miss out. If you haven’t already, this is your sign to hop on the video content bandwagon.

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Kapost

JUNE 14, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content. The post How to Apply a B2B Buyer Persona to Content Marketing Strategy appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog.

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Crimson Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

A guest post by B2B marketing expert Larry Stein Interested in driving inbound leads with content focused on your target buyer? The post How to Improve Your Content Strategy with Buyer Personas appeared first on. The mission of every technology marketing organization is.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 20, 2011

The chorus appears to be getting louder and louder on content marketing in bloggersphere, digital media, and traditional media.    In this case, should CMO’s be looking at content marketing or content strategy as the first order of business on the agenda? . 

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Recently, my colleague Rebecca Gill presented an in-depth look at building content marketing personas , mapping journeys, and how to leverage them into highly effective marketing strategies and tactics. For some time now, I’ve been working with clients to define audiences, build personas and conduct journey mapping workshops.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 1, 2023

With the help of AI, you can gain powerful insights about your marketing segments to help cater your website strategy to your audience. As a result, you’ll save your team time and resources that can be dedicated to actually implementing your website design strategy and creating marketing materials. Let’s get started!

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. The first person perspective brings the persona up close, making them more reachable.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 5, 2024

What is a Content Audit? A content audit is a look at what content you currently have published, how it’s performing, any issues that could be affecting its efficacy, and how it impacts the user experience. Why Are Content Audits so Important? However, not all content ages well or meets performance expectations.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. Access this and more Content Disrupted episodes on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Google Podcasts. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests?

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ? Looking to up-level your content marketing and drive more leads?

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Scoop.it

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That’s where strategic content marketing comes in. Consistently creating and distributing quality, relevant content allows you to promote your employer brand to prospective and current employees authentically. This post will explore seven content marketing tips and examples for HR audiences and leaders. The result?

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ClearVoice

JUNE 19, 2023

Content marketing is still driving success for companies that do it right. Several content marketing areas expect significant growth and change in 2023. These include account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, local SEO, persona marketing, podcast marketing, social media, and video marketing. billion in 2023.

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Contently

APRIL 4, 2023

But here’s the reality: A smaller budget doesn’t have to negatively impact success with content marketing. Instead, use this time to take a fresh look at the impact of your content marketing resources. With that in mind, here are seven ways you can do more with your content, with fewer resources, in any economy.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Technological disruption is par for the course in content marketing. What’s the best way to put AI’s content capabilities in play? We asked some experts presenting at Content Marketing World for their top AI tips and recommendations. Jeff Coyle, co-founder and chief strategy officer, MarketMuse, Inc. .

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. However, strategic content creation and distribution are great solutions to these challenges. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword. Sharing relevant data points and case studies.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many evolved business and marketing strategies to meet the new digital-first focus, heightened customer expectations, and so much more. To help put marketing efforts of this past year in perspective, we’re looking back at some of our top marketing content of 2021, focusing on B2B marketing strategies and new trends.

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fortunately, however, there are various strategies that can allow your ecommerce business to attract web visitors and turn them into buyers. Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. So, how do you use content marketing to boost conversions? Let’s dive in.

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Contently

AUGUST 3, 2017

This story is part of Contently’s Accountable Content Series, a collection of articles, webinars, case studies, and events we’ve designed to help marketers deliver measurable brand impact and business outcomes with content. To see more content in this series, click here. A methodology for tracking ROI and cost avoidance.

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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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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

Most marketers understand this basic concept: You should create personalized content for your site visitors. Delivering the right content to the right person at the right time may seem like a daunting task at first glance. It starts with buyer personas. How is this done?

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Contently

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every part of your business that communicates with the outside world—whether it’s sales, customer service, or human resources—needs content. To achieve that consistent voice, content teams need to play an active role in delivering value to internal stakeholders.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 19, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing You’ve spent months developing a content strategy and weeks laboring over a piece of content that you have deemed “high value”. Why are they unwilling to give you accurate contact information despite downloading your content?

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

To the uninitiated, B2B marketing may appear to be a smattering of strategies and tactics coming together in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-style soup. The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. Why Are B2B Buyer Personas Important?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Within the Predictable Pipeline framework, we think about Messaging and Content in the Buyer’s Journey with respect to w hat Key Target Personas need, w hat they are challenged by, a nd how they make decisions. It’s time to build a content strategy. Where is there key crossover in content between personas?

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