Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When we talk about content marketing ROI, we often ignore one of the biggest opportunities in front of us: sales enablement. As I wrote about in this Ask a Content Strategist column , content marketers have a tendency to stop thinking about ROI after lead generation. The Hidden ROI of Content Marketing Platforms.

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Content Marketing Case Study Marketing B2B 135

Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Where to increase your content spend.

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Content Marketing Marketing Consumer Strategy 135

Contently - Strategy

JUNE 6, 2024

This kind of social media experience has become all but universal; as consumers, targeted ads and influencer content can feel creepily timed to our real-life conversations. When planned correctly, content marketing is still one of the most valuable investments brands can make.

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Content Marketing Marketing Video Financial 52

Polaris

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Guitar Center’s YouTube channel beat out hundreds of leading brands, including Target, Four Seasons and General Electric, to snag the Project of the Year award at Content Marketing Institute’s 2014 Content Marketing Awards. Content Marketing'

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Content Marketing Storytelling Marketing YouTube 242

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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Content Marketing Study Blogging Marketing 135

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tie that same concept into content marketing, and you’ve got gamified content. In other words, content that incorporates common features found in games, like puzzles, points, leaderboards, and badges. Here’s a look at why gamified content works so well in brand marketing and ways to start playing with it.

Marketing 95

Marketing Content Marketing Analysis B2B 95

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Content marketing isn’t a panacea. More important, however, is that content marketing can hit diminishing returns very quickly, in a phenomenon first described by marketing expert Mark W. Earlier this year, Mark Schaefer proposed the idea of what he calls content shock. Are we talking to the right audience?

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Content Marketing Marketing Facebook Creativity 158

Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine you’ve just created an outstanding eBook that breaks down the hottest topic in your industry, and now you’re ready to roll out an entire digital content marketing strategy behind it. Of course, creating all that content sounds daunting. That’s where content atomization comes in.

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Content Marketing Strategy eBook Marketing 52

Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2020

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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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They wanted to create an educational program on inbound marketing for HubSpot customers. At the end of the course, they included an optional exam. If someone went through the course and passed the exam, they’d receive an official Inbound Certification. Every course begins with a landing page.

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Course SMB B2B Analytics 116

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Campaigns sometimes become the foundation of marketing activity. click image for higher resolution) Build marketing and PR programs What’s a better approach? Here again, you can scale up over the course of time. I’ve seen marketing teams that produced both a webinar and some style of long-form gated content every single month.

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Marketing eBook Guidelines B2B 191

Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. And that results in you achieving your marketing goals. I’ll give you an example.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Focus on the content. What’s the right timing?

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Content Marketing Marketing How To Leadership 150

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In fact, I sent several personal notes – spaced out so as to not be a nuisance – about the study over the course of six weeks and she never saw any of them. This is why content marketing plays such a crucial role in media relations , among many other aspects of PR and corporate communications. This isn’t unusual today.

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Content Marketing Marketing Pitching Survey 87

Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

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.

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Content Marketing Marketing Mobile YouTube 120

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? Is content marketing important?

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Content Marketing Marketing Infographics Consumer 98

Cision

APRIL 13, 2015

Content marketing can be challenging for health care communicators, especially at the local level — hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. And of course, you have HIPAA issues to worry about on everything you do. So how do you do health care content marketing? So how do you do health care content marketing?

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Content Marketing Communications Crisis Communications Marketing 120

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Great content marketing has the power to do that. Today’s audiences come across so much mediocre content that looks and sounds the same. Lately, innovative marketing teams have been thinking beyond the standard blog post. Assess your marketing maturity? Identify untapped markets?

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B2B Content Marketing Trends Marketing 74

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If there’s one thing every content marketer loves, it’s the grind. I was high on the grind myself recently, fresh out of Uberflip’s stellar Conex conference and sitting in Cleveland for Content Marketing World , typing so fast my laptop was (almost) billowing smoke. Marketers don’t slow down.

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Content Marketing Marketing Conference Blogging 102

ReimaginePR

JULY 11, 2016

You may assume that creating a similar content marketing strategy will be too complicated for your business to handle. After all, when you try to create content, it probably seems to take forever as you fall further down the never-ending rabbit hole of ideas, tasks, and social media updates. content marketing strategy.

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Content Marketing Marketing Writing Strategy 120

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our jobs may not consist of saving the world, but work deadlines can still have a powerful impact on our effectiveness and content marketing ROI. To find out the impact due dates have on marketers, Contently’s data science team studied the workflows of more than 13,000 pieces of content.

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Content Marketing Data Marketing Study 102

Buzzstream

JANUARY 9, 2019

Content marketing takes time and effort. By working together with other guest bloggers on content creation and helping each other get mentioned, we’re building useful, long-term relationships. Since I started applying reciprocity in marketing a year ago, it has helped us grow our organic traffic for Survey Anyplace by over 100%.

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Content Marketing Marketing How To Resources 134

Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 22, 2019

When asked to recall your favorite online content, you probably don’t think about stuff made by banks. Unless, of course, your job is to make content for a bank. That’s not a knock on finance content at all, by the way. But just like bottled water, it’s the packaging that counts.

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Banking Content Marketing Examples Industry 107

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. We are after all forever students of marketing. In the continuing effort to put a bow on content this year, I went back through each of 80 posts published this year pulling out interesting statistics and linking back to the original piece.

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Content Marketing SEO Social Media Publicity 122

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Your brain brings you into the story and allows you think about courses of action and decisions you might make as if you were actually part of the story you’re reading about. What started as a marketing experiment, has grown into a process that supports audience development.

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Content Marketing Marketing Storytelling Course 92

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2018

You cannot run content marketing like a campaign. You can, however, run campaigns inside a content marketing program. Campaigns are how every marketer is trained to think. It might even be integrated marketing. There is nothing wrong with any of this, but is not content marketing.

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Content Marketing Marketing B2B Engineering 89

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. It’s a form of blindness that’s liable to show up elsewhere in marketing and the organization; we are all forever students.

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Content Marketing Study Analysis Marketing 78

Prohibition

MAY 6, 2020

Despite this, marketers must rise to the challenge like never before. The secret to online marketing during such times? Rather than focusing on getting them to sign on the dotted line, B2B marketers need to think longer term. But how does that translate to online marketing? Redefine what a successful lead looks like.

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Content Marketing Marketing Real Estate Strategy 62

Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2017

What does it take to implement content marketing effectively in a B2B organization? It’s not an easy question to answer broadly because: a) every team has its own dynamics; b) every organization has constraints and limitations, and c) every vertical market has its own unique characteristics. 1) Hands on marketing leadership.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Leadership 68

Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2024

Sometimes statistics shared on social media take on a life of their own – that’s a problem if we don’t understand the source and methodology; here’s the source on the “95:5 rule” Only 5% of B2B prospects that vendors are trying to reach are in the market for a product. By contrast, 95% are not in the market currently.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 27, 2021

And it’s not instructive for setting priorities in marketing. To that end, and assuming there’s a business strategy and marketing strategy in place, those priorities should be as follows: Owned – website, blog, newsletter. Because when marketing invests invest time and budget into owned media, you are building two assets.

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B2B Marketing Content Marketing Course 148

wiredPRworks

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How do you package your brand marketing content to go from being invisible to rising up an expert? First, you need to have a message and then you need to market it. Let’s explore how to go from invisible to expert with a WIRED content marketing framework. WIRED Content Marketing Framework.

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Content Marketing Marketing System Transportation 52

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 3, 2022

B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange (August, Boston). B2B media outlet Demand Gen Report produces this and the winter B2B Marketing Exchange events annually. Session content revolves around demand-gen, ABM, sales enablement, content strategy, and more. Everyone knows Dreamforce, of course.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2024

Creativity is the one area of marketing that’s immune to budget cuts; the most creative B2B marketing ideas aren’t just “a video” but platforms of messaging and positioning B2B marketing isn’t known for creativity. Important, the five creative B2B marketing ideas below aren’t just a single video or ad as is often the case.

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Creativity B2B Examples Marketing 98

Communications Conversations

MARCH 25, 2020

So much of social media marketing, and marketing in general, for that fact, seems like it’s almost in the background right now. That’s why a lot of these creative content marketing opportunities we’ve seen the last week just seem to fall flat (see Chipotle’s attempt to use Zoom in a creative way, for example).

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Content Marketing Marketing Case Study Social Media 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. This isn’t a reflexive reaction either. Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson).

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Content Marketing Case Study Marketing Conference 66