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Your work is not for everyone. That's the point of it.

Jeff Goins

The point of marketing is not to convince people to buy your stuff. It’s to help you find the people who need your work. Don’t create something for everyone. Create something for someone.

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How to Use the 4 Most Helpful Reports in Google Analytics

Content Marketing Institute

Don’t get overwhelmed by the data in Google Analytics. Four reports can give you most of the information you need for your content marketing. Learn which ones you should know, as well as the how to find and act on their data. Continue reading → The post How to Use the 4 Most Helpful Reports in Google Analytics appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Technical SEO - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by randfish We've arrived at one of the meatiest SEO topics in our series: technical SEO. In this fifth part of the One-Hour Guide to SEO, Rand covers essential technical topics from crawlability to internal link structure to subfolders and far more. Watch on for a firmer grasp of technical SEO fundamentals! Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

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How to Write a Headline That Gets Results: 3 Key Strategies

ThemeIsle

Engaging content is the cornerstone of every successful website. The problem is, you may be a fantastic writer, but a lot of times people won’t click on your articles unless your headline sells them on the idea first. If you don’t know how to write a headline that sparks interest, your road to success will. The post How to Write a Headline That Gets Results: 3 Key Strategies appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Why You Should Revisit Your Old Content – Regularly

ProBlogger

The post Why You Should Revisit Your Old Content – Regularly appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 145 of the ProBlogger podcast. Is your obsession with new content hurting your blog? As bloggers, we tend to focus on what we’re creating now rather than what we created months or even years ago. Of course, it’s important to put time and effort into creating new content for our blogs.

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24 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Sure, we can learn from our mistakes. But we also can learn from others’ mistakes and avoid making them. To help you, we enlisted the help of some smart and wise people who share mistakes they’ve seen and how to fix them. Continue reading → The post 24 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid in Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The 11 Best Social Media Management Tools for Successful Campaigns

ThemeIsle

On the hunt for the best social media management tools to help you save time while managing your social media marketing efforts? In this post, we’ve collected 11 great social media management tools that can help you with everything from scheduling to automatically sharing old content, creating social media images, analyzing performance, and more. 11.

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Why You Shouldn’t Try to Rank #1 on Google

Neil Patel

Do you know what the number one email request I get is? Come on, take a guess. What do you think it is? Ok, its people asking me for money. But, do you know what the second most common email request I get is? Companies asking me to rank them number 1 on Google for a specific term. And I have to say, it’s a big waste of time for you to focus all of your energy on ranking number 1 on Google for a specific term or even a handful of terms.

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Successful Content Marketers Have These 7 Traits

Content Marketing Institute

Written 82 years ago, Think and Grow Rich still inspires CMI founder Joe Pulizzi. He finds seven chapters speak powerfully about the characteristics possessed by a successful content marketer. Read on for Joe’s insight. Continue reading → The post Successful Content Marketers Have These 7 Traits appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to MozCon 2019

Moz

Posted by cheryldraper From networking with your peers to hearing from industry leaders, there are benefits a-plenty to attending conferences. You know that. Your peers know that. But how do you persuade the powers-that-be (aka your boss) that sending you is beneficial for your business? To help convince your boss that won't just be lounging pool-side, sipping cocktails on the company dime, we’ve gathered the goods to help you get your boss to greenlight your MozCon attendance.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Is Your Content Ready to Zig and Zag With Your Buyers?

Content Marketing Institute

Prospects follow a messy path to buying. Does that mean you should give up on the straight path buyer-journey model? Nope. Organize your content so it’s ready for the mess, while keeping those stages in mind. Here’s how. Continue reading → The post Is Your Content Ready to Zig and Zag With Your Buyers? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Adopt a Curation Mindset to Get More From Your Top Content

Content Marketing Institute

Who’s to say your best content can’t be existing assets resurrected, repurposed, repackaged, and resurfaced? Not us. Here’s a three-step process to expand the opportunities to use your best content. Continue reading → The post Adopt a Curation Mindset to Get More From Your Top Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Links as a Google Ranking Factor: A 2019 Study

Moz

Posted by EricEnge Do Links Still Matter? For the fourth year running, Stone Temple (now a part of Perficient Digital) conducted a study on how much links matter as a ranking factor. We did that using Moz's Link Explorer and in this year's study, we looked at the largest data set yet — 27,000 queries. Our study used quadratic mean calculations on the Spearman correlations across all 27K tested queries.

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How to Find Your True Local Competitors

Moz

Posted by MiriamEllis Who are your clients’ true competitors? It’s a question that’s become harder to answer. What felt like a fairly simple triangulation between Google, brand, and searcher in the early days of the local web has multiplied into a geodesic dome of localization, personalization, intent matching, and other facets. This evolution from a simple shape to a more complex shape has the local SEO industry starting to understand the need to talk about trends and patterns vs. empirical ran

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.