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Competitive Marketing Analysis: 14 Ways to Monitor and Beat Your Competitors

Writtent Blog

Historically, companies of all sizes have relied heavily on SWOT for competitive marketing analysis, an acronym which stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. While fast food chains Chipotle and Qdoba offer a similar product, Chipotle has effectively positioned themselves as an eco-friendly company. Social Media.

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5 Advanced Lessons from Content Marketing World 2013

Writtent Blog

In industry influencer Doug Kessler’s talk at the show, he stated that the biggest challenge in the marketing industry was “an over-reliance on competent, professional, well-made, on-strategy content.” It’s getting their hands on content which can differentiate, connect with consumers, and help their company meet strategic goals.

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Social Media Outreach for Beginners

Sprout Social

Unfortunately some marketers use social media outreach as an opportunity to spam influencers. An advantage of using your brand profiles for social media outreach is it seems more official, particularly if your company is well known. To get started, open the Influencer tab in Buzzsumo. Instead of being contacted by Widgets Inc.,

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The New Writer’s Guide to Evaluating Websites for Guest Posting Opportunities

ProBlogger

Instead, focus on blogs with small and medium levels of influence (Twitter followers, blog subscribers, likes, +’s and so on). You will get refused, but it won’t hurt as much as being refused by an online influencer. Nowadays I use Buzzstream to keep track of my guest blogging initiatives. Check the site’s integrity.

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How to Promote Your Content Across Owned, Earned, and Paid Media

Convince & Convert

While these strategies are an acceptable start, they overlook the simple fact that for the vast majority of companies (unless you’re a market-leading megabrand), simply publishing content gets them nothing resembling good results. The world tends towards entropy, ignorance, and forgetting your company exists. Nothing markets itself.

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3 Strategies to Make Big Content Work for Your Brand

Convince & Convert

I interviewed 3 marketers who make large content projects work for their companies and clients to find out how to make sure to get a return on investment from Big Content: Cyrus Shepard. Our process at Moz isn’t much different than most companies. Where should companies new to big content focus? Can I choose all of them?

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45 Marketing Tools to Consider for 2017

Razor Social

It can streamline a lot of key marketing functions, and it’s proving itself as a great revenue driver for companies large and small. Research shows that companies that use marketing automation to generate leads have a 53% higher conversion rate on average. BuzzStream. Influencer Marketing. Social Media.

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