One of the questions we get asked most often at Convince & Convert is how to create a content marketing strategy and plan. Some people assume we’re holding onto special tricks or the ever-elusive yet way-over-hyped “content marketing secret sauce.” The truth is there are no secrets to creating a content marketing strategy. Instead, we […]
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Want your content marketing to succeed in 2019? Of course you do! Then, first consider how key events of 2018 will influence your marketing and content performance. Based on significant shifts in the 2018 landscape, these ten 2019 Content Marketing Predictions will help you develop and document your plans. To make the case to management,
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Do you know how your blog compares to the best-in-class blogs? Not sure? Don’t worry–Orbit Media Studio’s 2018 Blogging Survey provides the information to determine how your blog measures up against the top performing blogs. More importantly, it reveals that blog post quality and blog post frequency have emerged as the drivers of improved results.
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Before sharing my dad’s social media lessons, I have to come clean. My father never had a social media account. Unless you count email, but there’s still a hitch because my parents shared an email address. However, don’t let this minor fact stop you from learning from my dad. While I may be prejudiced, my
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Visuals are content marketing sugar. Marketers call visuals eye-candy for a reason! You add sugar to your coffee makes it taste better—right? Similarly adding images and/or video to each piece of content will sweeten it for your audience. As a result, your visually studded content marketing will be easier to consume resulting in more attention
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Quality original research content delivers the ever-elusive pot of marketing gold. Because done well original research is information your audience actively seeks. This is important for B2B buyers. 16% of CXOs spend 4+ hours per week engaging with thought leadership content. (How Thought Leadership Impacts B2B Demand Generation by Edelman and LinkedIn (2017)) Table of Contents
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Many small businesses believe branding is only for BIG companies with BIG budgets. They’re missing a huge opportunity. Small business branding is a super power; it enables your firm to appear more strategic and larger than it is. In the rush to open for business don’t skip branding. Instead, take the necessary time to develop
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Segmentation is a great way to improve the effectiveness of your marketing strategy. Not only does it allow you to identify different types of customers that your business can target, it enables you to understand them better and divide your market into more manageable subgroups of people. This allows you to come up with highly
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Unless you have been living under a rock, the terms “content marketing” and “SEO” are fairly recognizable. These buzzwords have captured the attention of almost all businesses and companies that are present online. Marketing pundits are now realizing – and leveraging – their worth in creating a brand image and increasing revenues. If you are
Marketing Podcast with Joe Pulizzi and Robert RosePodcast Transcript Most of the success stories in business marketing circles these days involve product and service companies thinking and acting like media companies. My guests for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast are Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, and Robert Rose, Chief
