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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

Content Marketing Institute

In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? The most important KPI for the team is the number of email subscriptions – a sign that someone finds the iQ content valuable.

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The New Marketing: How to Manage a Media Arm Within Your Company

Content Marketing Institute

What’s the best way for the marketing and media teams to relate to each other? Should they keep a “church-state” separation (like the separation that newspapers traditionally uphold between reporting and advertising teams), or should they collaborate? If an editorial team is really good, don’t mess with them, says @wvictorgao.

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Shouldn’t Every Piece of Content Be Clickbait?

Content Marketing Institute

Credited to Jay Geiger, who first wrote about it in 2006 , the term “clickbait” earned a place in The Oxford English Dictionary in 2016 with this definition: “(on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.”. Welcome to the clickbait debate.

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37 Beginner-Friendly Ways to Find Freelance Writing Jobs (2023)

Smart Blogger

Well, you can either wait until they post job ads, then compete against everyone else who applies…. Reverse-Engineer Writing Samples From Job Ads. Most job ads ask for relevant writing samples. Most job ads ask for relevant writing samples. When applying to these ads, most freelancers provide similar writing samples.

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide of Outsourcing Work Without Losing Quality

Neil Patel

If you need help with paid ads , for example, you can hire an agency to handle the design, implementation, and testing. 94% of marketers who automate say it has improved their company’s performance, according to MDG Advertising. Second, you’ll be able to achieve these tasks with an economy of scale. can all review.

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Voice Search: Is Your Content Prepared for the Verbal Revolution?

Content Marketing Institute

Statistics on usage are difficult to come by, but in mid-2016, voice search represented 20% of queries on Google’s mobile app, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Mid-2016, voice search represented 20% of queries on @Google’s mobile app, says @sundarpichai. 30% – Faster results. 24% – Difficulty typing on certain devices.

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50 of the Best Social Media Tools Selected by Top Marketers

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: You may have missed this article when CMI published it in 2016. Its marketing builder tool also makes it super-duper easy to add text overlays – vital for sound-off autoplay videos in the Facebook newsfeed because 80% of video ads on Facebook are watched with sound off.”. Let’s be honest, social media is a jungle.