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by Stephen Shepherd
As a marketer, how can you effectively use brand images in social marketing? What are some proven tips and tricks to incorporate images into your social content mix? Here are four practical ways to incorporate images into your social media marketing programs.
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by Chris Nosal
Most bloggers don't know how to emotionally connect with readers and get them sucked into their blog posts and articles. Here, I want to give you five easy tactics to instantly transform an ordinary blog post into an empathetic work of art.
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by Aaron Dun
Larger companies may be less concerned about the direct correlation between content marketing efforts and deals. But, for the rest of us, it's critical. So, how do you gauge the power of content and the value of your content marketing initiatives?
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by Catherine Sherlock
Understanding the power of stories is one thing; knowing how to craft them is another. So, let's delve into some practical applications of story. I'll use case studies, annual reports, and video as examples.
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by Verónica Jarski
In light of the increasing popularity of digital devices, video, and social networks, how has digital content readership changed? To answer that question, Uberflip researched key usage data from February 2010 through February 2013 then created the following infographic.
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by Dilip Venkatachari
J. Peterman is a brand with far more personality than most. However, somehow, it got lost along the winding road to the social Web, and it's a tragedy that's costing the cataloger. Here are our ideas to engage the J. Peterman fan base.
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by Jason Miller
Marketers on a tight content-creation budget should check out the Fiverr website. It's where people offer an insanely wide variety of services for only five US dollars.
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by Sonja Jobson
Want to market your small business online? Doing so isn't difficult. Just make sure to produce quality content and authentic messages. Here are seven ways to get started with your online marketing.
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by Angela Natividad
Learn why Facebook's blue and how eBay plans to data-woo advertisers. Get the scoop on paid YouTube subscriptions, a better way to manage B2B expenses, and Yahoo's winning content deal. Finish up with a children's story about what should be at the heart of your content strategy. Skim for happily ...
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by Ayaz Nanji
Most US adults—164 million (69%)—read newspaper media content in print or online in a typical week, or access it on mobile devices in a typical month, according to a recent report.
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by Frank Sinton
Through apps or the mobile Web, on a phone or tablet, consumers are watching more and more video on mobile, and now you have some figuring out to do lest you get stuck in the last century. Here are seven steps to get started planning your mobile content strategy.
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by Meghan Keaney Anderson
The if-then logic of the marketing automation process can lead to a snarl of over-communication, with only a loose relevance to the recipient's true interests and needs. It doesn't have to be that way.
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by Christina "CK" Kerley
Mobile is a boon to the customer experience, because mobile provides myriad ways for marketers to delight customers and improve their experiences in ways previously unavailable.
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by Alastair Kane
Content marketing is not rocket science, but it can appear so in the absence of a clear-cut strategy—and planning, without which your content marketing machine will be firing on three cylinders instead of being a turbocharged V8 behemoth.
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by Daniele Hagen
The inbound marketing industry, though still emerging, is playing a vital role in how marketers are doing their jobs, although challenges remain, according to the just-released fifth annual State of Inbound Marketing Survey from HubSpot.
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by Chris Warden
Here's the quick-and-dirty guide to being an SEO "expert," which merely means you know more than the people around you. This article will accomplish that. Well, not really... But the building blocks are all here.
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Some 182.5 million Americans watched 39.3 billion online content videos in March 2013, and the number of video ad views reached an all-time high of 13.2 billion, according to comScore Video Metrix data released this week.
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by Verónica Jarski
T help businesses manage content and determine how to set up a content team, Altimeter Group published the "Organizing for Content: Models to Incorporate Content Strategy and Content Marketing in the Enterprise" report today.
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by Tom Graunke
When the need arises to train a large department within your organization on a new marketing campaign, or you find yourself having to relay crucial marketing information to partners or associates in a short amount of time, traditional e-learning methods just won't cut it.
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by Diego Larrea-Puemape
Do we need yet another product category? If mobile phones became even more useful when they became smartphones, will the same happen to watches?
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by Verónica Jarski
I asked the MarketingProfs Facebook group to finish this sentence: "You know you're a marketer if..." The responses that made us laugh the most were then illustrated and published in this slide show.
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by Christina "CK" Kerley
Your customers, whether consumer or executive audiences, expect you to use the same mobile technology that has improved their lives to also improve the products and services they use: your offerings.
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by DJ Waldow
So where does the line get drawn between a creative, compelling email subject line and one that is deceptive (and, therefore, illegal)?
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by Jason Hirthler
Like the word "content" itself, "content strategy" is often an ambivalent term. But, however you define it, any good content strategist should have these seven skill sets.
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by Amanda DiSilvestro
Should your company have its own mobile app? It depends. Here's a quick list of reasons why companies should consider creating an app.
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