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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

For example, if you got X number of leads from influencer marketing in the previous year, you can propose an X+10% increase in budget for the same activity this year. There might be significant shifts in the market that push your strategy in a certain direction or internal changes that will influence your brand marketing strategy.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Managing strategic partnerships has always been an important part of public relations. This means finding opportunities, collaborating on campaigns, sharing content and audience insights. Consultants use content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress or Drupal to publish without web support.

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Content Marketing: Dos and Dont’s [Report]

Mindjumpers

The first white paper called “How to kick-start your Content Marketing” includes a seven-step approach that can be used by any organization to develop or re-energize a successful content marketing strategy and program. Be brave to experiment, learn and adjust your measurable objectives with your business’s KPIs.

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What is a customer journey map and how to make your own [examples included]

Sprout Social

Use prospecting tools, content management systems (CMS) and behavior analytics tools to gather data. Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping and TikTok Shop data also provide valuable insights into how customers find products and engage with content via social commerce. Current state template , provided by Bright Vessel.

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15 Rocking Content Marketing Tools with Advice from Experts

Writtent Blog

GatherContent helps you manage content creation for the web, is fairly inexpensive, and appears quite convenient to use. The product is proudly made in Scotland, and its focus is digital content creation. Kapost, a content management system with focus on marketing results, has built-in analytics for content.

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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

Waxing UnLyrical

So we spent months creating an entirely new CMS (content management system) from scratch – WordPress didn’t have the firepower. Know anyone in the travel space we should be collaborating with? We wanted to give cruisers the tools to tell their own stories and share their experiences through text and media.

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5 Ways to Build Online Authority Using Content Marketing - A Guest Post By Paul Chaney

Diva Marketing Blog

Paul and I have collaborated on several projects including developing and facilitating training programs for the American Marketing Association. Most website content management systems incorporate a blog component. When preparing to write a bio, clearly identify the audience that you're attempting to influence.