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Content marketing: feeling ripped off?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Your content marketing program is taking off. Someone has taken your original content and is using it online as if it were their own. Official Creative Commons logo. You’ll get a notification direct to your inbox if some scrapes or copies your content. Good for you. How frustrating! It happens all the time.

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15 Metrics You Should Measure in Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

Waxing UnLyrical

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Segment your target markets.

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Three Most Important Content Marketing Lessons of 2012

Firebelly

This year has been one of major upheaval after another for content marketers. Here are three things that every content marketer should have learned from the past 12 months. Google isn’t letting us get away with putting out schlocky content and cramming it full of keywords to trick the search engine spiders.

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The 4-1-1 on the (Not So) New Marketing Trend: Influencer Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

If you are a communications pro, I don’t need to tell you that influencer marketing is hot and could soon outpace traditional paid media spend. Everyone is jumping on the influencer marketing bandwagon because it’s all the rage, just like every other fly-by-night new trend. So, what is influencer marketing?

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The Best Content Marketer? An Orange Cone

Firebelly

What Does Soccer Have to do With Content Marketing? If you want to succeed at content marketing, sometimes you only have to be an orange cone. I’ve worked with clients in the past who were being totally dominated in search, and our content marketing plan was an all-out game of catch-up.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. While that’s the first thing that people think of — at least me, as a professional blogger — content is anything that can be read, watched, seen, or heard. I like this kind of content best, because it tells the entire story. Basically anything you can read.

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