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Buyer’s Guide to the Best Content Marketing Books of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Books published in 2018 tended to have better designed covers and short, punchy titles coupled with longer subtitles that described the benefits to readers. And what books should be added to the 2018 list?

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Grand Theft Content: Steal These 6 Ideas From Award Finalists

Content Marketing Institute

Examples from 2018 Content Marketer of the Year finalists were so inspiring they stayed with me. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Sample 11 of the Best B2B and B2C Content Marketing Ideas of 2018. Las Vegas Aces (@LVAces) August 19, 2018. But I made myself do it. Meaningful, human stories are out there. Create room to react.

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9 Stats That Will Make You Want to Invest in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

It’s subtly persuasive without being in your face. It’s efficient, compelling, and subtly persuasive. Subscribe today and be alerted when the 2018 B2C content marketing research is released later this year. Building trust over time means consumers pay attention and listen to your brand’s voice. 61% of U.S.

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10 Content Marketing Metrics to Track (+5 Experts on the Ones that Matter to Them)

Buffer

We saw amazing organic website traffic results in our peak publishing years, 2014 to 2018.   “So, a lot of our content is more persuasive and teaches our prospective customers about these bigger employee engagement concepts — then we dig into why they need a solution!” It was (and is!)

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What Is CTR? And How You Can Improve It

Backlinko

In 2018, Brian Dean said: “If you want to master SEO in 2018 (and beyond), you need to become a CTR Jedi!” Weak Call-to-Action (CTA): Your landing page might lack a clear and persuasive CTA. Why Is CTR Important? CTR is a metric you shouldn’t ignore. Or the page takes too long to load. As a result, they get frustrated and leave.

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Steal This Strategy: How to Write Like Animalz

Animalz

Add these together, and you end up with movement-first content , the Animalz strategy in a nutshell, coined and implemented by Jimmy Daly back in 2018. Solution: Write stuff that’s really, really good. Let’s dig into what it means to implement those ideas in practice. Share the Alpha. This hyper-specificity has additional benefits.

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The 20+ Best Copywriting Blogs to Bookmark & Follow Now

Smart Blogger

And if you prefer to read offline, Tom Albrighton, director of ABC Copywriting, is the author of four copywriting books , including Copywriting Made Simple: How to write powerful and persuasive copy that sells and The Freelance Introvert: Work the way you want without changing who you are. AWAI is the American Writers and Artists Institute.