Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Share the right content on the right social media network. Offer consumable content …. And long-form content.

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agora pulse

AUGUST 19, 2020

What is content curation? How does it differ from content creation? The Content Creation versus Content Curation debate has been around a while. But first, let’s be clear on content creation vs Content Curation. Now, let’s look at content creation vs content curation in terms of the pros and cons.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Content marketing is a hot topic, primarily in the B2B world but increasingly in consumer marketing as well. And as noted here yesterday , 93% of B2B marketers are now using content marketing, with more than half calling it their biggest priority this year. Content Marketing Strategy Guides.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? 4 C’s of B2B Marketing. Fire your Director of Social Media!

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 26, 2012

But as the world has shifted from marketing brochures and printed trade publications to everything online, the connections between PR and marketing have become more apparent; that white paper may be a lead generation asset, but it can also be used to pitch a bylined article. So how exactly does PR support SEO efforts?

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Why is Brand Visibility Important for B2B? Focus on Video Content. Develop Strong SEO Practices. For example, a company that shows branded content to its audience once per week is twice as visible as another company that only shows branded content to its audience every other week. How is Brand Visibility Measured?

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A common enough question, but it got me thinking: in more than five years and nearly 500 posts about web presence optimization, SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, and inbound marketing on this blog, I’ve never actually answered that question here. click to enlarge). It happens.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. The nice thing about SEO, blogging and social media marketing, is that the results are cumulative and compounding. They’re not much different.

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ProBlogger

MAY 10, 2012

This guest post is by Mitt Ray of The White Paper Blog. With the rise in inbound marketing, more and more blogs are using white papers to promote themselves effectively. If you’re keen on learning how to write effective white papers and then use them to promote your blog, then you have to read this post!

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Description: A private group for professionals working in digital marketing, social media, search, mobile marketing, content marketing, and PR. Social Media & SEO. Provides free white papers and reports to keep you up to date on industry trends and best practices. Learn more ]. Group size: 182,536 members.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

Today’s most effective marketers are optimizing content across channels, coordinating search and social marketing activities with traditional PR, and measuring their web presence and performance with sophistication. B2B Lead Blog ). and 23% share content on SlideShare. 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics. The Atlantic ).

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Social Media B2B Marketing SEO 245

Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Although the framework has been for the most part enthusiastically embraced (and dozens of people have downloaded the framework white paper ), a few people on Twitter questioned the need for a “new” marketing concept. Content Marketing. Search Engine Optimization (SEO ). Image credit: Ajax Union.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Grow your influence and attract followers/friends/connections by sharing interesting and relevant content—your own, from third parties, and from people you are following / would like to have following you. Create valuable backlinks for SEO. Promote your content / increase web traffic. Interact (e.g., ask and answer questions).

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Writtent Blog

MAY 15, 2013

For many content marketers, curation is something of a silver bullet. Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz has joked that we’re in the midst of a content arms race; companies across all industries have realized the power of custom content , and are actively competing to produce better-quality materials. Content Curation: Everyone Is Doing It.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

Through a blog, marketers become publishers, providing their audience with relevant and valuable content. Publishing has historically relied on advertising, or sponsorships, to pay for content production. Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation. And as a side benefit, this is helpful for SEO.

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ROI Case Study Bazaarvoice Klout 191

Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 27, 2010

Whatever questions you may have about social media marketing, you’ll probably find the answers in the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report from white paper guru Michael Stelzner. If content generation is included, overall costs aren’t likely to change much. …But Facebook Means Consumer Marketing.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 16, 2023

You can target Bing ad campaigns based on: Company, such as Google (lol), Hootsuite, or the Government of Canada Industry, such as Healthcare, Manufacturing, Corporate Services, or Consumer Goods Job function, such as education, sales, or arts and design This feature is a game changer for B2B services. Well, things just got easier, my friend.

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Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Additional supporting resources such as our Buyer Persona Worksheet , 5-Day Buyer Persona Bootcamp Virtual Training , Content Calendar Template and more. The supporting podcast episode also digs into the key metrics and content to help you optimize each stage of the funnel. What is a Sales and Marketing Conversion Funnel?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Unique and creative content can be hard to develop, especially when you are writing for a wide demographic. Would another blogger actually choose to link to it in the sea of other content available online? Successful bloggers consistently execute on the little things that make their content relatable, shareable, and linkable.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With The B2B Social Media Book: Become a Marketing Superstar by Generating Leads with Blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Email, and More , authors Kipp Bodnar of HubSpot and Jeffrey L. Cohen of Salesforce Radian6 have literally written the book on social media best practices for B2B marketers. Depth of subject matter expertise.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2011

Let’s assume your monthly blog hosting is $19, and you spend $19 per month on Inbound Writer to help with you blog’s SEO, and you spend $19 per month on Formstack to create and manage landing pages to convince people to download your white paper. both Inbound Writer and Formstack are awesome, by the way).

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

If you’d like to dig into one area in particular, here’s a quick table of contents so you can jump to the section that’s most important to you: Social media marketing classes (Nos. Content and blogging classes (25-31). Identifying influencers and content curation possibilities. Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Oktopost

JULY 23, 2020

When someone mentions “Content Marketing,” what are the first words that come to mind? Yes, but content marketing is much more than the sum of its parts. In 2020 it is becoming an increasingly important tool in B2B lead generation. As many as 70% of B2B marketers use content marketing to generate leads.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Social selling has become an almost inevitable part of B2B selling. This makes sense when you consider that 46% of B2B decision-makers are now between the ages of 18 and 34 years old. Reaching these buyers on the right platform, at the right time, and with the perfect content to answer their needs is no easy feat.

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Social Media Management Social Media Tools Hubspot 159

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 29, 2016

Although more than three-quarters of B2B technology marketers use social media to market their products, less than half say they can tie social channels to revenue generation for their businesses. But it may also be a problem with basic B2B social media marketing strategy. Image credit: BundlePost. Cross-Platform Social Media Strategy.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

There have been numerous models proposed for social media and content marketing (including the Four C’s of Social Media Marketing model previously published here), but when all of the complexity is stripped away, social media marketing success comes down to two core elements: content and amplification. Content is like singing a song.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 25, 2014

Companies are even becoming known for their video content. Unlike a white paper or eBook, video assets make people feel. It’s a massive win for your content strategy. Even though you might be creating content, you’re likely stuck when it comes to advancing your strategy or measuring your performance.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 23, 2013

Content marketing represents the most fundamental and widespread rethinking of marketing practices in decades. Content marketing turns the dominant paradigm of the last half-century—interruption-based mass marketing—on its head. What types of content are most valuable to my sales prospects?

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 22, 2013

“Big Content”, also known as content that requires significant time and resources, is all the rage today. from fun, long-term content creations to powerful projects that really drive business? Cyrus Shepard is Senior Content Astonaut for Moz. How do you measure the ROI of your big content initiatives?

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Recent research makes clear that, for high-value consumer purchases as well as b2b procurement, being as “findable” as possible online is critical to winning the business. Execution: this includes multiple avenues of content creation, distribution and follow-up. What groups do they belong to?) How many conversions?

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet another post about 2018 B2B marketing trends? This piece compiles and analyzes the predictions of more than 100 B2B marketing professionals as published in 10 highly-ranked posts over the past month (best!). The predictions ranged from honing content marketing strategy (popular) to sales-marketing alignment (a bit old?)

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. Incidentally, these internal links are also a SEO positive) 4.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 7, 2014

LinkedIn has made dramatic changes to its platform over the past 18 months, making what was a rather plain but effective business networking tool into a content-rich, visually dynamic, more interactive professionally-focused social network. The Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn, an infographic by WordPress Hosting SEO.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 12, 2013

Content marketing evangelists have spoken – “Create great content that appeals to your customers and you’ll profit.”. While this is true, marketers often forget the importance of promoting their content – people don’t find content by mistake, or by accident. Beyond Simple Sharing on Corporate Social Accounts.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. link] Chris Johnson Another nice post, J.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 5, 2016

As noted here previously, content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing. All of those marketers are creating an enormous amount of content, which is making it difficult to stand out and rise above the noise. Is your Content Boring? So is your content boring?

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