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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Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Content marketing has never been more important. A report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) conducted in 2016 found that 47 percent of enterprise marketers planned to increase their budgets for content marketing over the following 12 months. Keeping Content Powerful And Unique.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 15, 2024

High-quality individual pieces of content marketing don’t just happen in a vacuum – you need goals, a content calendar, competitor, audience and SEO research, and more! In other words, you need a content strategy. Read on for the essential elements of how to create a successful content marketing strategy.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Effective B2B content marketing programs have a documented strategy, build a subscription audience and use metrics to inform decisions What separates successful B2B content marketing programs from those that underperform? If you don’t have a content marketing strategy – make one. Give our services a try.

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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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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The company sells software that provides marketers with “intent data” and that’s where the data in this study comes from. Downloading content is one signal of an intent to make a purchase. million people have downloaded content created by marketers and tracked from registration to deal closure through the Netline platform.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I do love how all the marketing and PR people that 'don't do politics' suddenly, all have marketing and PR lessons from the election. If marketing and PR have a superpower – that’s it – it’s the ability to train your mind to put what you think aside and look at things from your audience’s perspective.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One of the occasional critiques of content marketing I hear from PR professionals is that content lacks credibility. The 2021 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs is an example. I don’t agree. It’s their audience, not yours.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 19, 2016

Marketers are reporting better results stemming from content marketing. That’s according to a recent survey published by Ascend2 titled 2016 State of Content Marketing Survey Summary Report. The survey demographics suggest the respondents were fairly senior with 57% holding director titles or above.

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5W PR

MARCH 2, 2020

Marketers who are successful in connecting with their target audiences would also attest to that, but is it happening? Content Marketing Institute recently weighed in on the matter by sharing results of its research of folks who work at B2B and B2C companies. Content Marketing. Why the contrast? Major Challenges.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 18, 2020

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 5, 2024

Flashier B2C brands often muscle their way to the center of the marketing stage, showing off products and services that people love shopping for. But finance content doesn’t have to be far from the excitement—after all, it takes budgeting know-how to afford those pricey shoes.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs recently released their latest joint study on the use of content in the marketing mix: B2C Content Marketing, 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America. Email marketing clearly deserves to be near the top of the list. I certainly was.

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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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It also surveyed 1,500 respondents in the U.S. survey respondents said the following: 61% trust business. According to the survey, business was the only institution that respondents classified as both ethical and competent. Both media and government were labeled – by survey responses – as unethical and less competent.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The “Brand Finance Investment Analyst Survey” polled more than 200 financial analysts who “cover publicly listed companies in the United States and United Kingdom.” To understand how analysts factor marketing into their assessment and valuation of the companies they cover. The survey had three findings that stood out to me: 1.

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 10, 2015

If you’re curious about content marketing, a quick Google search will serve up no shortage of information on trends, best practices, benefits for B2B and B2C companies and what it all means as 2016 approaches. Check out the survey highlights in our original infographic and read more in our news release. [By Lisa Davis].

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The best email newsletters are like holy grails for content marketers. When you send content straight to your reader’s inbox, you bypass Google’s search algorithm and the changing whims of social media platforms. If the content is good enough over time, people will come back for more. It’s a winning formula.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If content marketing was a self-evaluated college class, marketers would give themselves a “C.” That’s my sense after reading the new B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America report. The annual report is a joint effort between MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. Like many people entering the job market, I wanted to write and edit, and I was interested in exploring different ways to make a living with those skills.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Amid layoffs and closures stemming from the pandemic, news organizations are republishing political content leaving less time and space for businesses news Survey data shows media relations keeps getting harder , but now there’s a new analysis of content being published that offers a glimpse as to why. Try our services.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Many of the posts published here are heavily weighted with surveys and reports. It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. We are after all forever students of marketing. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Most of these come from registering for one-off gated content like white papers and webinars – these assets are expensive to create and promote. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 7, 2014

It was the 5 th annual B2B Content Marketing Survey which conjured up that memory – from perhaps a more frightening part of my mind. Marketers who put their content marketing strategy to pen and ink, were twice as likely to consider their organization effective – 60% to 32%. Rhythm and ROI.

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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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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 22, 2019

Good journalists and good marketers have something in common: They’re obsessed with understanding their audience so they can help people learn something new. That was the first thing I realized when I left the journalism world to become Contently’s editor-in-chief six years ago. The Limits of a Top-Funnel Mindset.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. I’m crunching data from this year’s survey now, and while the results aren’t finished yet, I can tell you that number has grown. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’re a content marketer at a financial institution, you’ve been asked to fulfill a particularly bright promise: not only do you need to establish a trusting relationship with your audience, but you need to develop a voice entertaining enough to make your bank stand out. Deloitte’s annual back to school survey.

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Onclusive

JUNE 23, 2022

This week, we’re continuing with our June blog series on Measuring Up To Marketing: How PR Fits Into The Mix. Our focus is shifting to making sure that communications objectives are aligned with marketing, as well as business, goals and discussing how PR teams can work with their marketing colleagues to achieve greater impact for the brand.

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Cision

APRIL 13, 2015

Content marketing can be challenging for health care communicators, especially at the local level — hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. So how do you do health care content marketing? So how do you do health care content marketing? Want to rise above the content clutter?

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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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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. The complete survey is freely available for download as a PDF on SlideShare.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

58% spending more time researching products before making purchasing decisions; social media has become increasingly important in B2B marketing The consumerization of business technology is probably one of the biggest driving forces in the development of B2B software. Using people’s names in marketing email (i.e.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 8, 2019

Now, marketing and sales are supposed to collaborate and complement each other like Holmes and Watson. Marketing builds awareness (Watson even blogs in the BBC reboot) and gathers intel, then sales takes over to close the case. Some marketers create a lot of great content but don’t always communicate that to sellers.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Data analysis of millions of articles and surveys thousands of bloggers find long-form content outperforms short form. Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form.

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