Smart Blogger

JUNE 9, 2023

Ever wondered, “what is content marketing, really?” Content marketing works similarly. It’s about curating quality content, tailored for your audience, and served on a platter of strategic placement. What is Content Marketing? Why is Content Marketing Important?

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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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketers who blog regularly receive 55 percent more website visitors and 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. Organizations that prioritize content marketing receive 13X more ROI than those that don’t. It’s no secret that content marketing works. Email engagement (e.g.,

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Let’s talk about content marketing. Content marketing continues to flourish for one very simple reason: it’s what the people want. Craig Davis , the former Chief Creative Officer at marketing communications firm J. That’s content marketing in a nutshell. Content Marketing: 2021 Current Trends.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 27, 2023

Creating an effective brand awareness campaign feels like trying to solve a puzzle, doesn’t it? The Power of Brand Awareness Campaigns If you observe the world of business, you’ll find a common thread that successful brands share: A deep, lasting connection with their audience. Potent brand awareness.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 1, 2021

Videos are a powerful tool for marketing and advertising, but unfortunately, there’s no secret formula for being successful with videos. What there is, however, is plenty of opportunity for success if you can be creative, authentic, and target your proper audience. Users love videos where people or brands explain things to them.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

Content marketing is powerful, but it’s also hugely competitive. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different.

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ContentWriters

JUNE 21, 2023

In the world of content marketing, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic. These polls shed light on how professionals are incorporating AI into their content strategies. These polls shed light on how professionals are incorporating AI into their content strategies.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020.

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Content Hacker

MARCH 2, 2023

Inbound content marketing just might be the magic touch you need. 3x more leads than traditional marketing (with a 67% cost savings). Instead of pushing your message out to them through interruptive ads and other means, you attract them in toward your brand organically with content. 97% more inbound links.

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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. Click To Tweet. Want proof?

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

More than 20 years later, an interview with Kathy Klotz-Guest at Content Marketing World brought to mind that Apple ad, which pressed into service images of some of the greatest leaders, artists, visionaries, inventors, and thinkers of the 20th century. Marketers often are scared of things that they can’t quantify or replicate.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

If you’re looking for a holiday gift book to advance the recipient’s content marketing skills, I have good news. During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Drivers of content marketing. Messages are filtered for relevance in real time.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2018

43% of companies already invest in technology to enable voice marketing, according to a survey taken at the 2018 Digiday AI Marketing Summit. 43% of companies invest in #technology to enable voice marketing via 2018 @digiday AI Marketing Summit survey. Read: Is Voice Search the Future of Content Marketing?

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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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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. Power of the podcast. Podcasts are the No. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 22, 2019

So it should come as no surprise that, as content marketers, we often approach the task of developing new ideas and initiatives by referencing, analyzing, and iterating on the creative experiences we know and love – standing on the shoulders of giants , so to speak. Lesson 2: Place your products in a practical context.

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The Hoth

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Does your company have a strong brand voice that your audience can instantly recognize? For instance, if you removed your logo, company name, and other branded images from one of your blog posts – would a customer be able to tell it’s from you? Why does a brand’s tone of voice matter? The good news?

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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

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. Paolo Mottola, managing editor at REI Co-op and the 2017 Content Marketer of the Year, has demonstrated again and again how content can drive more than interest and engagement – it can drive action.

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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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Shorthand Content Marketing

MAY 8, 2022

Content marketing is far from a new strategy. In 1732, Benjamin Franklin used an ingenious form of content marketing to promote his printing business. Content Marketing Must Create Engagement. Even in 2021, this is the exact job that content marketing specialists are hired to do.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 7, 2018

Well, the presenters at Content Marketing World want to help. They’re sharing the best questions they’ve been asked about content marketing. In a few cases, they share their answers and in others, we share some content that could help you formulate your answer. What is content marketing?

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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 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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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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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

After all, an idea is only one part of a published piece of content. Engaging storytelling : High-performing short-form videos often have a compelling narrative, even if they're only a few seconds long—an engaging hook to capture attention with a middle and end that keeps them watching.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This article is the follow-up to an August post about 25 frequently asked questions about content marketing. Do you get asked tough, or even easy, questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing. What is content marketing?

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Content Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2023

Content marketing is a booming industry set to reach a worth of $600 billion by 2024. It’s growing fast because it’s the modern way to market to consumers – ironically, by not marketing or selling to them. Since content marketing is the present and future of marketing, that means every business needs content to compete.

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Ann Handley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Source: Wiley A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. New sales copy for the dust jacket: Everybody Writes is your essential guide to becoming a masterful marketer, writer, and storyteller. But that’s not true.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In a digital age where audience behaviors shift with each new trend and technological advance, it’s paramount for marketers to introduce their content campaigns directly into the spaces where their target audiences are most engaged. Now, content marketing boundaries are stretching far beyond these traditional confines.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 26, 2018

Want to spark innovation, influence perceptions, and inspire people to believe in your organization’s values and brand? Take some tips from 20-year Pixar Animation Studios animator – and recent winner of the Brand Personality Award in Animation from The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation – Andrew Gordon. You have to break that up.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This year, B2B and B2C brands elevated their creativity to inspiring levels. Natalya Minkovsky found and shared some of the best in each issue of Chief Content Officer magazine. 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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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

We hear from content creators all the time about the struggle to be creative day in and day out. But creativity is critical when it comes to standing out among the screaming noise that distracts your audience daily. And there are tactics you can use to inject more creativity into your content marketing efforts.

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Smart Blogger

JANUARY 24, 2024

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Do you rock content marketing? Even though my writing niche is SaaS, as you saw with my SaaS clients – Zapier, GoDaddy and Smartblogger – each byline was tailored to the brand. Use Storytelling to be Personal. You can use your byline to answer all three questions! Do you provide proven SEO optimization?

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Copywriter Collective

APRIL 18, 2023

Creative Engagement: Writing for Your Audience Effective and persuasive writing requires creative engagement with your audience, such as figuring out who cares about them and what they find interesting. The creative services team specializes in crafting persuasive copy for various industries. So, let’s dive in!

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