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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? First-time readers may find iQ through a native ad , a social media ad, or a shared social post. A lot, it turns out.

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

Content Marketing Institute

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

Content Marketing Institute

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

Content Marketing Institute

Consider this: While CMI’s research shows tactics like social media, videos, and infographics have adoption rates of well over 50%, only 4% of marketers say they are working with machine-learning-driven content formats like virtual reality or augmented reality. Artificial intelligence in many forms.

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

Content Marketing Institute

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. if your niche is social media, focus on a single platform that’s hot). SEO Click To Tweet.

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

Content Marketing Institute

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. The infographics continue to contribute to the site’s traffic, backlinks, and social media shares.

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