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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging.

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How To Use Customer Insight To Power Your Business

The Realtime Report

Smart companies will use the insights they get from customers in a number of ways; from fixing holes in marketing campaigns to informing product messaging and even developing and co-creating new products. To keep up with evolving market trends, make sure you take note of these foolproof tips. Use Online Market Research.

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

Sprout Social

To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. When coupled with social media market research , they help brands: Provide an overview of the resources your customers use. Generate marketing campaign ideas.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

My post on syndication best practices covers ways to reduce the risk of being outranked for your own content. Although content management systems have become more SEO friendly over the years most still cause a number of SEO problems, including duplicate content issues. CMS issues.

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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

So while it holds a lot of promise for better user interaction, figuring out a whole new platform, how to design for it and integrate our content management systems with it is going to be a big challenge for news organizations.

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How to develop a content marketing plan

Sprout Social

If you can’t answer these questions, then you need a content marketing plan. According to one recent study , only 40% of B2B marketers have a documented content marketing strategy. Whether or not you are in that 40%, it’s a good idea to establish or revisit an existing content marketing plan.

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Solving the Content Management System Standoff: Drupal, Joomla or WordPress?

ProBlogger

Similarly, the same approach should be taken when it comes to choosing the best open-source content management system (CMS). Whether youll be running a company blog or a site thats jam-packed with graphics and video, making the right choice depends on your content. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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