Content Marketing
Content marketing is a strategic approach to creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience, ultimately driving profitable customer action. Effective content marketing involves a combination of content creation, management, and promotion across various channels, such as blogs, social media, email, and more. Key subtopics within content marketing include content marketing systems (CMS), content strategy, content creation, content distribution, and content performance measurement. By delivering high-quality content that resonates with your target audience, you can build brand awareness, establish thought leadership, and nurture relationships with potential and existing customers. Explore the articles below to learn more about how content marketing can help you achieve your business goals.
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What’s Just-in-Time Marketing (JITM) and Why are Marketers Adopting It?
When I worked in the newspaper industry, just-in-time manufacturing was quite popular. Part of the appreciation was that you would minimize funding tied up in stock and storage, and work much harder to prepare for demand. Data was an essential…
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100 Years Later: The Kingdom of the Subscriber
This is an advertisement from the May 1916 edition of Popular Mechanics from AT&T speaking to potential telephone subscribers. I often wonder how difficult it was to overcome the fear and trepidation such technology must have caused at the time.…
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3 Unique Industry Digital Marketing Tips
There’s no question that digital marketing is a powerful beast — and one helluva fickle beast at that. As much as we’d all like to assume that digital marketing is basically the same no matter what, it’s most definitely not,…
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ROBO: How Today’s Shoppers Research Online and Buy Offline
The phenomenon known as Research Online, Buy Offline (ROBO) has emerged as a significant force shaping consumer behavior. While e-commerce continues to grow, it's crucial to recognize that 90% of consumer purchases still occur in physical retail outlets. This statistic…
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What’s the Cost of Acquiring Versus Retaining a Customer?
There's some prevailing wisdom that the cost of acquiring a new customer can be 4 to 8 times the cost of retaining one. I say prevailing wisdom because I see that statistics are often shared but never actually find a resource to…
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8 Steps to a Successful Account-Based Marketing Strategy
If you're wondering What account-based marketing is?, Doug Bewsher wrote a great article about it for Martech Zone. The strategy is paying off for most B2B marketers. In fact, 92% of B2B marketers consider ABM extremely or very important to…
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From Personalization to High-Definition Emotional Intelligence
People with high emotional intelligence ( EI ) are well-liked, show strong performance, and are generally more successful. They are emphatic and have good social skills: they show an awareness of the feelings of others and manifest this awareness in…
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The #1 Complaint About Inbound Marketing
Once every month or so, we hear the same complaint from prospects who are working with inbound marketing agencies and clients that are working with us on their inbound marketing efforts. Not to mention that this complaint is one that…
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Website Design
Building a website can be daunting, but if you think of it as a chance to reevaluate your business and sharpen your image, you’ll learn a lot about your brand and might even have fun doing it. As you start,…
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The Best Customer Acquisition Strategies Online
Whether you like it or not, every business has a revolving door of customers coming and going. We can all do things that increase retention and alleviate the additional costs and efforts associated with finding new customers, but old customers…
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Infographic: What is Account-Based Marketing?
Account-Based Marketing is strategic approach to business marketing in which an organization considers and targets prospect or customer accounts based on the likelihood of them doing business with the company. This is typically based on an ideal customer profile (ICP)…
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How to Create Content Ideas for a New Client
Creating content ideas for a new client is a critical process that can significantly impact the success of marketing campaigns. Here's a structured approach to conceptualizing and strategizing content for a new client. A blank page can be an intimidating…
