We’ve all seen one of those ads that just hits the ground running and before you know it, it’s “gone viral”. It almost doesn’t even matter what the subject is; all sorts of people outside the brand’s demographic will watch it, like it and share it – because a great ad is a great ad. […]
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Whether you’re head of content marketing in a larger company, part of a lean distributed team, a solo entrepreneur or somewhere in between, scaling up is essential to brand building. According to a Content Marketing Institute survey, 64% of content marketers said their greatest educational need is understanding how to create a scalable content strategy:
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Successful businesses are built on effective stories. People love to see, read or hear stories because it creates a human connection based on empathy. The best marketers in the world leverage the power of storytelling to improve branding and conversion rates. What do stories have to do with marketing? Well, people remember stories 22x more
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Creating content for your brand’s online presence is incredibly important and, when done right, has multiple invaluable benefits for your company. However, quality content creation often becomes time consuming, expensive, and can sometimes feel impersonal. But what if there’s another way to get high-quality content at little to no cost? What if this content already
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Before the digital age, word-of-mouth marketing consisted of one person telling another about a brand, product or service during a conversation. Kind of like this old ’80s commercial for Faberge shampoo: Now, you are no longer limited to peer-to-peer recommendations; your business can encourage and amplify word-of-mouth marketing as a method of promotion. There are
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These days, shoppers are less impressed with celebrities and gurus telling them what to buy and prefer content that’s generated by their fellow consumers. A Nielsen report showed that 92 percent of consumers trust recommendations made by people they know while 70 percent believe the opinions consumers post online. Some brands have been savvy enough
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SEO and user-generated content have a complicated relationship. On the one hand, user-generated content can give search engines more information to work with, improve your rankings for long tail search traffic, and encourage community activity that generates links and other positive off-site signals. On the other hand, user-generated content can be low quality, redundant, spammy, it
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Facebook is getting a bad rap these days for its latest algorithm changes, which makes it increasingly challenging for businesses to gain organic visibility on the platform. But it’s not the only social network that is making algorithm adjustments – Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and practically every major social media platform are following suit. The end
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Any SEO or webmaster who has ever had a website affected by a Google algorithm change – or feared being affected by one – has probably wished that they could find a way to make their website “algorithm-proof”. Still, surely there’s no such thing as a website that’s never impacted by Google algorithms, right? As
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