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Six Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid in 2018

Cision

According to research from Content Marketing Institute, 65 percent of businesses using content marketing have experienced an increase in ROI compared to a year ago. For content marketers, this is good news — as it indicates that content marketing is still as effective as it has always been.

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7 mostly free professional development ideas that PR and comms pros can start today

Sword and the Script

There are many free courses you can take from Google (AI and analytics) and HubSpot (all kinds of classes). Google offers free courses on analytics and AI. HubSpot has them for marketing and social media. Most of the social media platforms have courses you can take on their advertising products. N value was not provided.

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33 Statistics Summarizing the Year in Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO

Sword and the Script

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Paid media and advertising statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing.

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It’s the Subscribed Audience! B2B Marketers are Missing the Point of Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts. I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) this year.

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Goodbye Third-Party Cookies, Hello Content Marketing

Contently - Strategy

Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years. According to Forrester, in 2023, more than half of global marketers thought the whole thing was a bluff. But in January 2024, Google finally rolled out a new feature— Tracking Protection —that could signal the end of the third-party cookie as we know it.

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Content Marketing: Is Now a Good Time to Double Down? [Coronavirus]

Sword and the Script

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing.

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11 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Cision

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.