Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The good news: There are a lot of content marketing resources out there. The bad news: There are a lot of content marketing resources out there. Heading into 2022, everyone wants to up their content game. But sometimes, sifting through a sea of content about marketing can be overwhelming.

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Resources Content Marketing Healthcare Marketing 140

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 21, 2025

There are many free courses you can take from Google (AI and analytics) and HubSpot (all kinds of classes). Most of these are focused on marketing, communications, leadership and psychology. Sidebar: most business executives do this too , which is why you should accept non-business emails for gated content and subscriptions).

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Google Course Survey YouTube 157

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 103

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 137

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 144

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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Content Marketing Marketing Advertising Advertising 137

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 Social Media SEO Publicity 142

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

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?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Communications Crisis Communications Marketing 120

Cision

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In this video, Baer talks about how influencer marketing is a powerful strategy that can easily go wrong. Jay Baer Asks — What Are The 3 Biggest Problems With Influencer Marketing? Jay Baer: What are the three biggest problems with influencer marketing? There is more content than ever, but most content fails miserably.

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Marketing Infographics Video Content Marketing 255

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 23, 2018

B2B organizations that find content marketing effective are committed to these programs. These organizations have a content marketing plan in writing. Those are among the top-level findings from an annual survey of content marketers by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs.

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Content Marketing B2B Study Marketing 118

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

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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Conference B2B Case Study Content Marketing 304

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.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Marketing Writing Strategy 120

Onclusive

JUNE 24, 2020

Research shows that both paid and traditional media are becoming less trusted, and therefore less effective, owned media has become a critical cornerstone of the marketing mix. All of this information should lead to more data-driven decision making and the optimization of future content.

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Strategy Media Advertising Advertising 418

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Today I share Deborah Weinstein’s answers to questions about the challenges confronting social media marketing and digital communications. Are the social media waters still safe for marketing? The thing about marketing is that to fill your net you have to fish where the fish are. Be Helpful.

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Marketing Facebook Social Media Community 244

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 119

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 97

Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

In the marketing world, professionals tend to glom onto useful marketing buzzwords as a shared language, and those terms can actually prove useful to professionals in adjacent industries. As the marketing and media industries continue to look more and more alike, their lexicons overlap too.

Content Marketing 102

Content Marketing Marketing Media SEO 102

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 106

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 108

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 108

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

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.

Content Marketing 104

Content Marketing Data Marketing Study 104

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 11, 2021

Though they’re typically created for advertising purposes, edcals give a PR team a topic guide for creation of press releases, blog posts and content marketing. By laying out what content to create, when to pitch and whom to pitch, editorial calendars make PR both easier and more effective. Measure Performance. Align the Team.

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Pitching Content Marketing Measurement Social Media 308

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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B2B Blogging Study Survey 169

Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

PRophet adds influencer marketing; Equiniti (EQ) to Acquire Notified; Semrush names Bill Wagner new CEO One of the biggest technology vendors in the communications space was talking about a new interface for PR software years ago but its the startups that seem to be making it a reality.

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Software Pitching SEO Tools 159

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.

B2B 148

B2B Marketing Course Content Marketing 148

Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. Creating and distributing consistent and relevant content is considered a proven strategic marketing approach that attracts and retains an audience and drives customers to action. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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Survey Content Marketing Marketing Measurement 90

Sword and the Script

APRIL 14, 2020

A study by Edelman and LinkedIn connects B2B thought leadership to trust and sales; and what it takes to be effective Effective thought leadership content is a staple of B2B marketing. This is a new illustration of the classic example of how high-quality marketing is far less expensive than the cheap stuff. Relationships?

Leadership 206

Leadership B2B Marketing Study 206

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How can marketers cope? A Call To Action, or CTA, can exist in nearly any type of content but it’s worth calling out because it is essential to achieving content marketing goals. Promoting content social media and encouraging others to share it as well is important for gaining maximum exposure for your piece.

Leadership 353

Leadership Insurance Insurance B2B 353

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

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Writing Communications Marketing B2B 211

Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Your sales reps and marketers may have more “on the ground” knowledge than your boardroom directors. You need to gather this knowledge, build on top of it, and use it to make your sales and marketing processes more effective. This helped them to act quickly and create content that effectively addressed customer pain points.

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Data Big Data Strategy How To 292

Polaris

DECEMBER 13, 2014

I demonstrated how marketers can use buyer personas to put a human face on customer information and bring their ideal customers to life. Of course, the “sales” process doesn’t end once a prospect becomes a new customer. If you need help developing a content marketing road map, get in touch. Content Marketing'

Small Business 162

Small Business Marketing eBook Comparison 162

Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 20, 2017

It used to be you had to take accredited, in-person courses if you wanted to do something new in your job as a PR pro. Whether you’re just starting out in social media or want to learn more about the latest, shiny platform, there are online courses out there for everyone. As a result, we will see lots of changes on the job market.

Community 244

Community Social Media Course Measurement 244

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.

B2B 159

B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 159

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

The past five years or so have seen drastic changes in the media and cultural landscape that impact PR and marketing. Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business.

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Mobile SEO Web Journalism 244