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

Content Marketing Institute

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. What’s the best way for the marketing and media teams to relate to each other? As Victor says, “If an editorial team is really good , don’t mess with them.”.

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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? In-feed native advertising like Sharethrough is used by IQ in conjunction with social platforms like Facebook for multichannel native advertising.

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

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It has more than tripled its ROI and increased its customer base by 30%,” as reported in this article in March 2017. Production, the second category of the AI framework, relates to marketing activities like these: creating, curating, and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, videos, and advertisements.

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Falling Behind Your Competitors? Build a Content Brand

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We were hiding our light under a bushel,” says Will McKenna, describing the company’s marketing efforts in the talk he and Fred Macri gave at Content Marketing World 2017: Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Crafting a Successful Content Brand in an 86-Year-Old Enterprise. Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Even better?

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13 Smart Brands Using Technology to Power Their Content

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As Paul Roetzer, founder of the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, told the CMW 2017 audience , you don’t need a degree in computer science or computational mathematics to incorporate AI into your content efforts: “You don’t have to know how it works. Artificial intelligence in many forms.

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5 Types of Content That Naturally Attract Links: Insights From 628 Advanced SEOs

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Those are a few of the new findings from my team’s new Link Building Survey , in which we polled 628 SEO experts across various types of businesses to understand better how they build links for better SEO in 2017. A white paper is not a brochure to advertise your business; it is a resource meant to solve a problem.

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12 Types of Awesome Visual Content You Can Use in Your Blog Posts

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A long time ago, I was a designer for a small advertising agency. In a 2015 article on Bannersnack, we included lessons learned from David Ogilvy, the father of modern advertising, that relate to online marketing. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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