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This Week in Content Marketing: Is There a Crisis in Content Marketing?

Content Marketing Institute

05:25): Welcome to Episode 208: Recorded live on November 5, 2017 (Running time: 1:05:08). (06:45): 47:13): Robert’s commentary: We’ve spoken on many occasions about consultancies competing for the creative services business historically serviced by agencies. defense contractor now known as General Dynamics.

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3 Life and Marketing Success Resolutions for 2019

Content Marketing Institute

31, 2017, I “retired” from marketing and took a sabbatical for 2018 (which, as of this publishing, I’m still happily on). I had this great vision of a content marketing matching service between agencies and brands, that we dubbed the eHarmony of content marketing. Let’s say you were going to build a house. I was having doubts.

Marketing 101
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Business Lessons I’m Bringing into 2022: 2021 Income(ish) Report & Takeaways

Ashleyn Writes

The year was a mishmash of manpower tetris with contractors and employee switch-outs against a backdrop of projects. We’re a crew (now) of 4 employees—me, Rachel my integrator, McKenzie who heads up customer delight, and Sarah who runs the agency side of things—and about 10ish contractors (though some work on the same team).

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How to Pay Yourself: Peek into My Small Business Budget & Finance Friday Routine

Ashleyn Writes

As the owner of an online business—part copywriting agency, part digital product e-commerce—I have to manage my cash flow and small business budget with precision. It also means taking some risks like investing: hey-o ads, hiring, contractors, etc. Every Friday I do these steps, I have since 2017 when I first worked with Shanna.

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How 3 Content Brands Tackle Their Toughest Internal Challenges

Content Marketing Institute

All four come from journalism and PR backgrounds, and they supplement their writing with a team of contractors and freelancers. Whitney works with a team of six internal writers, also with journalism backgrounds , and experiments with agency resources for human interest stories. It’s hard to find writers who get it,” Deb said.

Brand 101
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The Evolution of SEO [Video Presentation]

Moz

Before that, I was at Distilled, which is an international digital marketing agency, and I ran the Seattle office there for over a decade. When we hit 2017, we saw more changes to the results every day than we ever had before. And when I was working at the agency, we worked with this site and specifically with its founder, Larry.

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27 Ideas to Break Your Creative Slump

Content Marketing Institute

Amber Masciorini, team lead digital PR and social media, RelationEdge Digital Agency . Jeff Goldstein, SEO director/operations manager, Contractor Calls. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Best Content Marketing Books of 2017 to Boost Your Creativity and Productivity. Look at someone else. Bring in fresh eyes.