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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

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Do tons more to drive leads, our team decided unanimously back in 2016. Resolved to do better, in 2016 we began creating premium content monthly. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your Content Team Can Sprint With Agile Marketing.

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

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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

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 true challenge of becoming a successful (brand) publisher is sustaining an audience, says @LukeKintigh. A lot, it turns out.

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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.”. Welcome to the clickbait debate.

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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. What can organizations do to ensure that the brand –and its audiences – benefit?

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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. If you do, the Velcro Brand Companies legal team might burst into song about the importance of using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Is Your Brand Breaking the Law on Social Media? Don’t write “velcro.” No, really.

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How to Contribute and Publish Guest Posts on Forbes (Updated)

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They're likely using Forbes to build their brands and be contributors and journalists, so it's likely that they even have a contact email published somewhere easy to find. To become a writer on VentureBeat, I had to fly to San Francisco, buy a ticket to their conference, and rub shoulders with the editorial team.