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Creating Insanely Effective Content Marketing

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Content marketing is all the rage, and for good reason: it works. With 70% of internet users saying they’d prefer to learn through content rather than ads , content marketing makes perfect sense. Still, there’s a lot more that goes into content marketing than simply writing a blog about a new product.

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#measurePR Recap (July 2017): How Major Media Measures Content

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In July, #measurePR discussed how major media outlets measure their content initiatives. Here’s some of what we talked about: On whether a perfect content strategy exists: A2: No! But you can come close when you marry your target audience with stories that entertain, inform and serve their needs #measurepr.

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Monday Roundup: Content Rules

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A large portion of what we do online is centered around content: creating it, sharing it, reading it. Content helps us promote our businesses, create relationships, and share what is important to us with the rest of the world. This week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web that show why exactly content rules.

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Monday Roundup: Content Counts

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Content is the “meat and potatoes” of everything from websites to newsletters to blog posts; without content you literally have nothing. So this week’s roundup brings you some stellar content… about content. 4 Questions to Ask Before You Publish Content. Why Good Content Delivers Bad Leads.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

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Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In other words, the bandwidth for content consumption is fixed.

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Four Ways Content Writers Can Change the World

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From the time I wrote an essay in second grade that blew away half of the elementary school teaching staff, to what felt like thousands of rounds of high school debate, to my current job at the helm of a fast-growing stable of content writers, language has been an intimate part of my existence. Leverage content for causes.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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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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