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How to Unite Brand Storytelling and Marketing Tech

Content Marketing Institute

Henry Ford didn’t invent the car. He made cars accessible and affordable to the masses through an innovative process. Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. And marketing tech tools once available to enterprise-level brands with big budgets are now viable for small and medium-sized businesses too.

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How to Start Writing Your Book

Jeff Goins

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Everything You Need to Know About Inserting and Editing Images in WordPress

ProBlogger

The post Everything You Need to Know About Inserting and Editing Images in WordPress appeared first on ProBlogger. Do you feel confident using images in your blog posts? While there’s no absolute rule that bloggers need to include images, most bloggers will include at least one eye-catching image in each post (normally at or very near the start). However, it’s easy to make mistakes with images.

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Start your H1 Project: a powerful 'micro' content strategy for digital teams

Contented

Producing a big website is like running a marathon, culminating in a frantic sprint over the finish line. Business-as-usual slowly returns and change requests come in. At first, you’re thankful for the quieter pace. But a fter the mad dash of go-live, it is easy to forget that the real race begins — that is, the race to top search rankings and engage customers. .

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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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Aon Shares Why Its Content Scorecard Is a Must

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Venetta Linas Paris is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. We talk a lot in content marketing about how stories can engage, educate, and win over audiences. Yet many of us struggle to measure the impact of the stories we tell.

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How to Plan a Year’s Worth of Content With One Original Research Survey

Content Marketing Institute

When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn.

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You Must Win Every Moment of Trust to Win the Moment of Truth

Content Marketing Institute

May I have your attention? Do I have your trust? The answers often are not the same. And yet marketers often conflate them. Grabbing a consumer’s attention for any length of time is seen as a proxy for “engagement.” And “time spent” is equated to the depth trust of the brand by a consumer. Of course, this is just not true. In fact, researchers have found , as “trust increases, attention decreases (in proportion).”.

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