Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the field of marketing is constantly evolving, and SaaS brands are not immune from the challenges that arise due to the fast-paced nature of the field. One great way SaaS companies can keep up is through brand advocacy. 2021 SaaS Trends that Affect Brand Advocacy. Overcome Content Overload.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 6, 2018

These are just a few of the characteristics we look for when selecting the finalists for CMI’s Content Marketer of the Year award. As we begin to unveil our 2018 finalists in the coming weeks, we want to give you a closer look at last year’s honoree. Mix and match content types, formats, and levels. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. You continually roll the dice in hopes of earning enough trust, credibility, and experience to persuade your audience to embark on a journey alongside your brand. Want proof? pic.twitter.com/D9zDWXxuDb.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 28, 2018

Some let us know how so-and-so brand can help you, as a marketer, ensure GDPR compliance, avoid fines, and make millions of dollars using their tools. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade. Register today for Content Marketing World Sept.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here are a few data points about the impact voice-centric digital communication is having on consumers – and how marketers are responding: 55% of adults will have a smart speaker by 2022, per OC&C Strategy Consultants , more than doubling the nearly 20% of U.S. Read: Is Voice Search the Future of Content Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 12, 2018

If you’ve tuned into the Content Marketing Institute for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with the importance we place on the idea of developing a documented, strategic plan. Each year in our research, we find that a cohesive, documented strategy is one thing that separates successful vs. unsuccessful content marketers.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The outlook for B2C content marketing looks bright if budgets are any indication. Fifty-seven percent of B2C marketers surveyed expect their 2019 content marketing budget to increase over 2018, and 29% of those expect it to increase by more than 9%. consumers spend more on brands to which they feel loyal.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 27, 2024

These are insider tips from the mouths of content marketers, directors of content, communication leaders, VPs of marketing, and more. It’s best to turn in your work early to avoid creating content bottlenecks for the client. It’s not for the head of content at Drip Emily Blankenship.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2017

B2C marketers may be about to hit that stage given the signs that popped up as we read through the survey data and fill-in responses to the latest annual content marketing research. You can read the full results in B2C Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America , produced by CMI and MarketingProfs.).

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 6, 2018

Content is a brand’s currency to demonstrate relevance and, with emerging channels and interfaces like chat and voice, it’s bringing brands closer to their customers. But to succeed, company-driven content needs a more strategic approach that rebuilds a brand’s foundational and experiential elements. Brand voice.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

Being committed to content marketing is a no-brainer requirement for success. But what may be surprising is how a small shift in commitment level can make a BIG difference in overall content marketing success. content marketers. Does that mean they can’t strengthen their commitment to content marketing?

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Let’s be honest: you probably didn’t get into content marketing because you love working with numbers.    Thankfully for folks like me, there are many brilliant tools to help you keep on top of your content marketing metrics (little to no math required).   That’s certainly true for me.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Whenever someone mentions the term “branded content,” my mind still drifts back to the original inspiration for my love of the technique: BMW’s The Hire. Branded content is the best vehicle for marketers to bridge the gap b/n awareness and affinity, says @joderama. In the name of brand love.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2018

Editor’s note: Beverly Jackson is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. And it offers several lessons for other marketers. Circus Circus (@CircusVegas) June 30, 2018.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a small business owner, digital marketing statistics can give your content marketing strategy a competitive edge in 2023. You know it’s difficult balancing content marketing and sales with actually creating your product or delivering your service. Content Marketing Institute , 2022) 5.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Enter, 20-year marketing veteran Lisa Mattson. With the help of her team, Lisa has reinvigorated Jordan Winery’s brand through videos. This post shares some ideas from her Content Marketing World talk, How Jordan Winery Crushed Content Marketing With a Video-Centered Strategy – ideas that you can steal to reinvigorate your brand.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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Grammarly

MAY 17, 2023

123 Graham Street Boston, MA 02134 (617) 456-7890 emily.liamson@example.com EXPERIENCE Sysdig, Boston, MA— Head of Brand & Content Marketing February 2022-PRESENT Developed a brand strategy, compelling company narrative, and messaging hierarchies to create a loyal community. subscribers across platforms.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2018

Content marketing is a great, wonderful, powerful way to earn attention and loyalty online … but much of what the industry talks about comes from a B2B perspective. I’m not here to tell you that everything you learned about content marketing is a lie and you need to ditch everything. Interactive content.

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Moz

JULY 26, 2020

There are so many benefits to this combination of content marketing and digital PR, and I’ll walk through what you can realistically expect, and feature examples and data from our experience working with Porch.com. It’s true that content marketing is an investment, which I’ll explain properly in the next section.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. Content is never just content. Today, he’s the senior manager of brand strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2017

She said she absolutely loved the blog and felt like she found her calling around content marketing. She’d been doing content marketing for years but called it something else. The content marketing blog I started in April 2007 was really taking off, and the audience was anything but shy. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 9, 2018

And yet here we are, well into 2018, still waiting for it to fully materialize. John Bucher, virtual reality producer and consultant, makes the case for trying the medium even if it’s not fully ready for prime time, with examples of brands actively experimenting. CCO: How do you feel about the ways brands have used VR to date?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Workflow automation: IFTTT. Cost: Free.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 2, 2018

Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. And marketing tech tools once available to enterprise-level brands with big budgets are now viable for small and medium-sized businesses too.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Editor’s note: Because proving the value of content marketing continues to be necessary, Julia McCoy updated her 2016 post with some fresh stats and perspective. . Content marketing has been moving at the speed of light in recent years. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Explain Content Marketing to Anyone.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Did you catch Joe Pulizzi’s talk at Content Marketing World 2018 ? In it, he revealed the secrets of life and marketing (sorry if you missed it). The binge-able Stay Here isn’t overtly about content marketing, although it does offer a few basic tips (think: blogging helps, headlines matter). The first step?

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Brands Use Pop-Up Experiences to Make a Lasting Impression. Create shows, raid for content.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2019

Sites with user-generated content like Quora and Reddit can be gold mines for referring traffic to your website, boosting brand authority, and reaching niche audiences for your business. But you better respect what is and is not allowed on these powerful channels for distributing your content and increasing engagement.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. Conducting content experiments. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Content Influences the Purchasing Process: Tips for Content Marketers [Research]. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Confused About Agile Marketing?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. Large brands and retailers already have access to such online-to-offline metrics. How have you been using Google Maps in your local business marketing efforts? Let me know in the comments.

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BKA Content

MAY 18, 2023

10 Ways To Monetize Your Online Content Perhaps you’re a dedicated marketing content writer with a venerable library of blog posts under your belt. With affiliate marketing, you agree to promote partner brands on your blog in exchange for a percentage of sales that come from your page. revenue by 2024.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For today’s content creators and content marketing teams, unique original content is always the best route to take. The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. Sharing this ‘thought-ware’ collectively raises the bar for every brand and therefore makes us strive for bigger, better, bolder.”. Click To Tweet. Image source.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2018

On the surface, author Rohit Bhargava’s observation in the keynote talk of CMI’s virtual ContentTECH this year doesn’t bode well for content marketing. After all, to attract and retain an audience, we need people to believe the content we’re creating. Grace Bonney (@designsponge) March 15, 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2018

One of the biggest changes for Chief Content Officer magazine happened at the beginning of 2018. After seven years and 36 issues, Clare McDermott handed the editor’s red pen over to me in an emotional ritual involving arcane incantations, a branding iron, and a pledge to forever cast out the Oxford comma. Get out of that!)

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Influencers of all kinds play a growing role in affecting a prospect’s decision, and it’s important to better understand the influence difference and its potential impact in your content marketing program. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Influencer Marketing: Lessons From One of the World’s Largest Software Brands.

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