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How Bloggers Can Create and Use White Papers

Kikolani

A white paper is a cross between a magazine article and a corporate brochure. They posses both the educative qualities of a magazine article and the persuasive qualities of a brochure, this educative and persuasive quality of a white paper makes it one of the most powerful marketing tools. To directly generate leads.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

However, it’s certainly reasonable to expect that a good number of hiring managers do searches at Google for “IT Recruiter” and then: Download a white paper about “Successful IT Recruiting” or “The Benefits of Passive Candidates.” Register for a webinar , a seminar, or a newsletter.

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B2B Blogging Trends for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Research from HubSpot shows that small businesses with blogs have twice as many Twitter followers as those who don’t. You can get the whole story in B2B Blogging Trends in 2011 , a free (and no registration required) white paper from Aggregage (the software that powers the BMZ site). There’s much more.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

Waxing UnLyrical

Think ebooks, white papers and even blog posts. Plain-text emails look more personal, less marketing-y and actually have better open rates (HubSpot does a great job explaining why in this blog post ). What content are they reading and downloading? And long-form content. Create bare-bones lead nurturing emails.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation. Use “ads&# in your blog sidebar, and in-post text links where appropriate, to drive visitors to your white paper or other gated content download pages. Here are 20 ideas. Generate webinar registrations. Gather market intelligence.

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Riding the Social Media Struggle Bus? You’re Not Alone

Webbiquity SMM

In fact, another recent study from HubSpot reveals that 63% of B2B companies aren’t generating leads from social media at all. a white paper can be re-used as a presentation, a couple of blog posts and a bylined article) and spread the workload among several internal subject matter experts, so one writer becomes overwhelmed.

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Anyone with a New Idea is a Crank Until the Idea Succeeds

Webbiquity SMM

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. Image credit: Ajax Union. Inbound Marketing.

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