Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Let’s talk about content marketing. Content marketing continues to flourish for one very simple reason: it’s what the people want. That’s content marketing in a nutshell. Consider: Compared to outbound tactics, content marketing costs 62% less but generates 3x as many leads. Exceedingly well.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2017

When marketers come up against frustrations, for example, Robert has a way of reframing their situations in such a way that new opportunities – for the individual and for the company – emerge. October 7, 2017) edition, Robert relates his conversation with a marketing director who was considering quitting his job. Click To Tweet.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 7, 2020

A sound content marketing strategy is one of the better ways a business can help shape its brand identity, garner interest from prospects, and retain an engaged audience. Content marketing isn't static. How Content Marketing Evolved in the Past Decade. As you can assume, it's well worth understanding.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

Content marketing is a great way to do so: When you generate informative, useful, and interesting content for your audience, you can also directly or indirectly sell your products or services to them. Content marketing can give B2B companies a truckload of options to keep their audience engaged.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2017

7 Tips that Will Make You a Successful Content Marketer in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In today’s marketing, content is king while many previously successful SEO techniques are irrelevant or even harmful. So what are the tricks to be on the crest of a wave in 2017?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 27, 2017

Maybe it was the awesome party and Train concert the night before, but sessions were packed—both with people and awesome content. Michael Brenner , CEO of Marketing Insider Group, kicked off his session, 2017: The Year of Tough Choices, by setting the scene: we do a ton of stuff. Content Marketing Pillars.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It’s hard to believe that, after 10 years, this will be the last time I share my annual list of content marketing predictions for CMI. It’s no longer just about words – content is about creating experiences. Amanda Todorovich, content marketing director, Cleveland Clinic. Predictions2018 Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Social media promotion: Zapier.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. Every creative asset you produce needs to be supported by strategic decisions – from crafting ideas into a cohesive message to selecting the content types and distribution formats that let your ideas work their magic.

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Rock Content

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, this number grew to 43%, and then 51% in 2018, and is expected to increase to at least 80% by 2022. While the SaaS market is predicted to grow to a staggering $220.21 Therefore, it is extremely important to have a Content Marketing strategy in place that can stand up to the rigorous competition in this arena.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Natalya Minkovsky found and shared some of the best in each issue of Chief Content Officer magazine. Here are 11 models she shared in her Idea Garage column in 2018: Velcro® entertains to promote trademark ( February ). Chris Miller (@Chris_Miller_6) December 15, 2017. Don’t write “velcro.”

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Orbit Media Studios

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s the 80/20 rule of content marketing: 80% of results come from 20% of your content. This is true for every website and for every content audit I’ve ever done. To find out, we need to do a content marketing audit. We’ll focus on the top three promotion channels: SEO, email marketing and social media.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Content marketing can be a valuable tool for nearly any company, in nearly any industry, at nearly any point in the sales funnel. But with the glut of content available, how does a brand create and distribute content that allows the company (and the audience) to experience that value? 6 billion unique site visits.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 12, 2018

If you’ve tuned into the Content Marketing Institute for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with the importance we place on the idea of developing a documented, strategic plan. Each year in our research, we find that a cohesive, documented strategy is one thing that separates successful vs. unsuccessful content marketers.

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Rock Content

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Content marketing has become one of the most prominent techniques used by brands to attract, educate, and convert an audience. While content marketing is a powerful and proven technique alone, you can combine content marketing and digital branding to achieve greater results. Improve Your Visibility.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Editor’s note: Because proving the value of content marketing continues to be necessary, Julia McCoy updated her 2016 post with some fresh stats and perspective. . Content marketing has been moving at the speed of light in recent years. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Explain Content Marketing to Anyone.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

1 seed Virginia), I offer six basketball-tournament inspirations for your content marketing strategy. Take a page for your content marketing playbook. Announce the game winners round by round over a few days or weeks and award a prize to all who guessed the “championship” piece of content. Build a bracket.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 21, 2017

. (05:35): Welcome to Episode 205: Recorded live on October 15, 2017 (Running time: 1:15:25). (11:00): 11:00): Special offer for Content Marketing World video on demand – You may have missed the show, but don’t miss out on all the insights. Content love from our sponsor: Ahrefs (13:38). Source: TechCrunch ). (22:40

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

With each passing year, there are more examples of manufacturers doing impressive things with content marketing. What can manufacturers in the young/first steps phase do to take their content marketing to the next level? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Key Milestones to Develop and Advance Your Content Marketing Program.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The CMI team posted videos before the 2017 Intelligent Content Conference (spoiler alert: we’ll do it again for ICC 2018 because they were effective). They were designed to help marketers better understand tools and innovations behind content strategy – the topic of the conference. Promote them. Love your speakers.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 18, 2018

It was May 2014, and the content marketing team was celebrating the one-year anniversary of its digital magazine for one of the most prestigious financial services brands in the world. Content marketing was a hit at the firm. We’ve got a promotion and audience development plan, and the audience analytics dashboard ready.”

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“What’s next for content marketing?” As modern marketing practitioners, no matter how focused we are on today’s pressing challenges and opportunities, we can’t help but keep an eye on what the future might bring. 5 at Content Marketing World: Project of the Year. Content Marketer of the Year.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 26, 2017

Here are some of the most common challenges marketers reported struggling with. The Most Common Marketing Problems We Face, According to the 2017 State of Inbound Report. According to our report , generating traffic and leads and p roving ROI are the leading challenges marketers face. and their solutions. What Can You Do?

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Practically everyone understands the importance of “doing content marketing,” but many – even those with documented content marketing strategies – don’t know how to align the types of content they create with their desired content marketing goals. SEO Click To Tweet. Data/research.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When it comes to promoting this vast variety of library activities and resources on social media, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County has experimented with content for each platform, from Instagram to Pinterest to Snapchat, setting goals for each one and choosing to focus on those that prove to be most effective.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2017

How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? Some of you might be wondering about two weekend stalwarts – the PNR: This Old Marketing podcast and the Content Strategy for Marketers newsletter. We can tell from traffic the answer is “sometimes” for many of you.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

If you need proof of how true his observation is, look no further than the Capital Group, a conservative, trusted financial services company that – until recently ­– lagged far behind its competitors in thought leadership and digital marketing. “We Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Recognize that paid content promotion pays off.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The show, Brand New , was produced with the help of Mabus Agency, and aired its first episode in June 2017 on MPB, the Mississippi PBS affiliate. Students on the show are also promoting it to their friends, and the schools are promoting it on their websites,” says Oxford. It’s a key market for us.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 24, 2018

Editor’s note: Jason Miller is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. . HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Road Map to Success: Content Marketing Strategy Essentials.

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Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2017

We’ve never had more ways to promote a product. Of course, being too promotional will also make your brand unattractive. The same Sprout Index found 46% of consumers unfollowed a brand due to too many promotional messages. A post shared by Patrick Janelle (@aguynamedpatrick) on Apr 3, 2017 at 3:01pm PDT. "If

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 13, 2018

Its audience has grown rapidly, totaling over 800 million (increasing 200 million between July and September 2017 alone). One of the best ways to achieve maximum reach and engagement is creating content that encourages your viewers to create their user-generated posts featuring your product or message. Instagram is a good answer.

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Buffer Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

  For example, take a look at how our Content team worked together back in 2017 to plan our editorial calendar. While our team is still fully remote and distributed—Hailley Griffis, our head of Content and Communications, is based in the U.S.,

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2017

After you put away the champagne flutes and flip the calendar to 2018, what will you set your sights on to take your marketing to the next level in the new year? What has 2017 taught you? One place to look for lessons is CMI’s two conferences – Content Marketing World and Intelligent Content Conference. Production.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 8, 2018

It’s not that content marketers lack ideas. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The 3 Behaviors Driving the Most Creative Content Marketers. The art of the content project pitch. You’re probably familiar with the “four Ps” of marketing (price, product, promotion, and place). Something safe.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. Conducting content experiments. On one fateful week in August 2017, after months of sweating, we published our findings on three tests. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Confused About Agile Marketing? Register today. .

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