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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. Here are 11 models she shared in her Idea Garage column in 2018: Velcro® entertains to promote trademark ( February ). If you do, the Velcro Brand Companies legal team might burst into song about the importance of using the VELCRO® trademark correctly.

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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

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HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your Content Team Can Sprint With Agile Marketing. 7 Best Practices (and Tools) for Managing Your Remote Content Team. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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How Tom’s of Maine Found Success in Micro-Influencer Marketing

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Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle. These are not people who charge money or make a career out of influencer marketing; they are real people who enjoy the opportunity to engage with our brands.

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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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Community Management: A Social Media Expert Spills Her Secrets

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HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How 3 Serious Brands Engage Humanly on Social Media. Whether you want to address a micro or a macro issue of content marketing, make plans today to attend Content Marketing World 2018. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors or sources, not the CMI editorial team.

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Shouldn’t Every Piece of Content Be Clickbait?

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A mysterious headline might be: The One Word I Promised to Stop Using in 2018. His advice works well for brands seeking to be expert resources or have their content be the featured snippet on the Google search results page. Brands measuring #content success by clicks & shares exacerbate the use of clickbait. derek_gleason?

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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. 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?