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As with everything else in the digital world, content marketing is constantly evolving into something bigger and better. So as marketers, we have to roll with the punches and change with it. Content marketing tactics can be different for B2B companies from their B2C counterparts. But at the end of the day it is still all about sales. Content marketing …
So you have this great business idea, your mom likes it, your friends like it, and hey, a subset of people you don’t know even like it. You’ve spread word about it through your network—and their networks—and have received a positive response. You’ve even conducted some market research and held focus groups. In other words, you’ve validated your idea. From …
There is a war going on but you maybe haven’t noticed. It is a battle for eyeballs and Google attention. It is a content war where the best rises to the top. Readers and viewers vote with social signals such as retweets, plus ones on Google+ and Facebook likes and shares. The Web landscape has provided the means for everyone …
Image via Mary Helen Cochran Library via Flickr Content marketing is about informing and entertaining your audience, social media is about promoting your content, and SEO is about making sure the technical t’s are crossed and i’s are dotted so search engines can find your content, right? Wrong. All three work toward the same thing: achieving relevance for your audience. …
Storytelling is central to everything around us, but as social media marketers, we tend to put them in the backseat and let our agenda ride shotgun. I love a good story. I even love a bad story. I’ve seen Timecop more times than I care to admit…okay, it’s seventeen. Stories have an amazing ability to make us feel connected to …
Are you curious about which type of social content gets the most shares? Are social shares part of how you measure social marketing return on investment (ROI)? Do you wonder which social channels’ users share most frequently? In this article you’ll discover the most recent findings about what types of content get shared most, which channels seem to have the …
For many bloggers who are new to blogging, getting the word out about your new venture can seem like a pretty big obstacle. How do you build readership from scratch and get people to comment? Why is it that when you post a link to your blog on Facebook or Twitter, the only feedback you get is the sound of …
Marketing automation can’t be described as a new concept anymore. It would be more accurate to say it’s a difficult undertaking because automating anything requires precision and constant maintenance. But it’s not impossible to use this strategy effectively. The fact that marketing automation is no longer a new, mysterious technology provides small businesses with the one resource they need to …
A blogger needs to develop the skills of a drug dealer, a teacher and a chef . The drug dealers make their product so good that after giving away their first free sample, their customers come back with the cash. They are savvy businessman, they know that if they give away something for free that they will develop loyal customers. …
