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Increase in Your Content Marketing Budget? 61+ Fresh Ideas From Experts

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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. 50,000: Engage with an industry-specific freelance writer or visual content creator to enhance the content around a strategic business message.

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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

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The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Only 10 Ways to Make Money From Content Marketing. But it absolutely can be done.

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If You Aren?t Using Website Videos, You?re Missing These 3 Benefits

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Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: What to Do After You Press Record: A Formula for Videos People Love. Content marketing can be a tough sell to executives who are interested in its direct relationship to selling. Click To Tweet.

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Ready to Go Live? All You Need to Know Now

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As with any content marketing initiative, avoid the one-and-done approach. Con: Content creators on YouNow have no control over comments, which poses a big risk for brands. Is livestream a component of your content marketing? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Create Sticky Content With 3 Livestreaming Apps.

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Shouldn’t Every Piece of Content Be Clickbait?

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Credited to Jay Geiger, who first wrote about it in 2006 , the term “clickbait” earned a place in The Oxford English Dictionary in 2016 with this definition: “(on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.”. Attend Content Marketing University.

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How to Find a Writer Who Won’t Kill Your Content

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Below the erupting volcano of content – billions of new articles every month – a secret army is hard at work. Wherever marketers create e-books, run webinars, promote blogs, and craft events, artisans are hammering, hacking, and whittling the words. These writers make content marketing run. Much of it is poorly written.

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3 Simple Tools for Hiring Great Content Creators in Less Time

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Your team has developed audience personas and knows which topics and keywords resonate with your audience. The content promotion plan is done and the KPIs are set. You begin assigning the content marketing work. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team.