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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

Content Marketing Institute

Do tons more to drive leads, our team decided unanimously back in 2016. Up until that point, we merely invited readers to consume our blog content, which focused on the latest social media trends. Even if we wanted to use in-your-face dropdowns begging for an address, we had no special content to offer.

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Sample 11 of the Best B2B and B2C Content Marketing Ideas of 2018

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This year, B2B and B2C brands elevated their creativity to inspiring levels. Natalya Minkovsky found and shared some of the best in each issue of Chief Content Officer magazine. If you do, the Velcro Brand Companies legal team might burst into song about the importance of using the VELCRO® trademark correctly.

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The 1-2-3-4 Strategy to Drive Leads From Instagram

Content Marketing Institute

Instagram presents a huge problem for brands. Still, it makes sense to brand your profile with a clear and attractive logo. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Outperform Fortune 500 Brands on Instagram [Research]. To do this for your brand, you can easily set up a landing page like Foundr’s using a tool like Leadpages.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

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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? Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. This is a sure sign iQ content is paying off.

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Shouldn’t Every Piece of Content Be Clickbait?

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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.”. click), what can you do? derek_gleason?

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

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2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. Either way, you’re probably curious about what it looks like for a brand to run a media organization. For marketers like Victor and his colleagues, tomorrow is today.

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Scale Your B2B Content with Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try

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Only after I heard Paul Roetzer’s Content Marketing World talk did I realize that my experience represented exactly that: artificial intelligence at work. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Analyzing content. Check it out!

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