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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Don’t Discount Traditional PR
We're presenting at a regional conference today and I'm listening to a PR presentation. Public relations has taken a hit economically, but the PR agencies that have developed strong relationships with major media are thriving. Our agency has partnered with…
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Thank You, Mr. Jobs
My obsession with Apple started when my friend Bill Dawson and his wife, Carla Ybarra-Dawson bought me an AppleTV. That was the beginning... now my kids have MacBook Pros and iPhones, and my office is filled with Cinema Displays, iPads,…
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D&B360 Makes CRM Workflow More Powerful
Dun & Bradstreet has long been the gold standard of quality business data. I've been working on and off with D&B for over 20 years. D&B has a cloud-based solution, D&B360 , that provides access online directly to D&B's data.…
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7 Lessons Learned in Promoting Your Writing
We were excited to book Jo-Anne Vandermeulen on our podcast but about 20 minutes in, our Internet access went down and we had to discontinue the show. It was disappointing since we were really getting great advice from Jo-Anne. Jo-Anne…
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MyRepono: A Simple, Affordable Offsite WordPress Backup Plugin
I didn't have a WordPress backup plugin for quite a while. So... the first time that I lost my WordPress database was a nightmare! It was my fault... I was making some updates to the database and dropped the entire…
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Does a Subscribe Dropdown Work?
When we relaunched our newsletter, I wanted to really make the subscription link a dominant feature on our site. We added a drop-down section at the top of the site and it's been incredible. While we used to get a…
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The Fastest and Easiest Means of Speeding Up Your Site
Through our hosting provider, I was introduced to CloudFlare . I was absolutely astonished at the service... especially the starting price (free). When I worked for a major SaaS provider, we configured geocaching services and it cost us tens of…
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21 Marketing Terms to Impress and Annoy Your Colleagues
I was at home catching up on some reading tonight. I'm a pretty simple guy, so whenever I hit some new terminology, I often click over to a search engine or dictionary to figure out what I'm reading. I'm also…
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Add Custom Backgrounds to WordPress 3
This month's .net magazine arrived with a great section on WordPress 3 features. One of the features is the ability to change your background image on your theme. The code is really simple. In your theme functions.php file, add the…
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The Value of Content Marketing
This is a unique look at content marketing. We shared the Content Grid yesterday, discussing how each type of content can be utilized strategically. This infographic calls for an even more robust strategy because the behavior of readers is changing...…