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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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10 Key Marketing Automation Features You Should Know

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For businesses to remain competitive, a significant effort in achieving marketing automation is required, as the gains to consumer interactions and experience, and company productivity and profit are many to be had. Analytics is a prime example of how marketers and businesses can benefit from automation. Feature #2: Email marketing.

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When Content Marketing Lets You Down

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Ah… content marketing. “Let’s do some content marketing!” When content marketing lets you down. What happened to research? This is a classic case of being let down by content marketing. When Content Marketing Lets You Down is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. I’ve.

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Turning Marketing Measurement on its Head

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Instead of always talking about what PR can learn from marketing analytics, what if we asked what marketing can learn from PR measurement? The campaign content and its distribution tends to be different, but the media-related research questions are similar.&#. Pretty radical, eh? Tools like Radian6, Netbase, etc.,

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Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing

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But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. Alfred – With his calm demeanor and innate understanding of motivation and behavior, he’s the researcher on the team. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing? But does he force-feed them to our hero?

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Monday Roundup: Buzz Marketing a la Spring

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So if your marketing feels as if it might be in a rut (already!), Here are some ideas on “buzz marketing” (I know, I know). 6 Buzz Phrases Marketers Should Take Seriously in 2015. Winning the Marketing Battle Between Help and Hype. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral.

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#measurePR Recap (October 2017): How Gender Bias Affects the Bottom-Line

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ABX and ANA AFE were recently awarded the prestigious 2017 ESOMAR Research Effectiveness Award for their work. This is further complicated by a problem almost every research project faces—funding can be hard to secure: A5 Like in PR, no one wants to spend money on more research. Angela Jeffrey (@ajeffrey1) October 12, 2017.

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