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  • Context Is Everything: Language and Voice in Marketing Messaging [Video]

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

    How can we marketers map our messages and voice to ensure our audiences are comfortable with both, and create a neat fit between message, product, and medium? Watch the video to find out.

  • What B2B Firms Get Wrong About Thought-Leadership Content

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    B2B vendors that create thought-leadership content tend to underestimate the impact of these pieces and overestimate their quality, according to recent research from Edelman and LinkedIn.

  • Leads From Search Are Different: How to Convert Search Leads by Tailoring Sales Practices

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: SEO

    There are critical differences between leads generated from a search query vs. leads generated from referrals and other sources. Common sales approaches can hurt your chances with search-generated leads. You need a customized approach to convert them instead.

  • The 20 Biggest Winners on Google Search Last Year

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: SEO

    YouTube and Amazon were the sites that made the biggest gains in organic search engine visibility last year, according to recent research from Searchmetrics.

  • Customer Retention: How to Assess and Improve Your B2B Customer Lifecycle

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    Customer lifecycle assessment is all about steady improvement—identifying weaknesses so you can eradicate them. The potential rewards of optimizing your customer retention process is so significant in the B2B world, you wouldn't want to give short shrift. Here's your action plan.

  • How to Find Your Company's Most Powerful Thought Leaders--and Your Company 'Story'

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    B2B customers are demanding education and advice as part of the sales experience. They see through the bright and shiny marketing speak. They want proof. Real thought leadership is that proof. Take these four steps to identify your company's most powerful thought leaders and their perspectives.

  • How to Choose the Most Appealing Images for Your Email and Content Marketing

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email Marketing

    A single image can have a significant impact on the performance of an email campaign by ensuring that customers receive a compelling and personal experience. Selecting images with maximum appeal requires considering a range of factors. See how to select those impactful images.

  • Five Reasons Your Marketing Messages Aren't Hitting the Spot, and How to Make Sure They Do

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Writing

    A lot of marketing directors are constantly tweaking their messaging—because it just isn't doing what they want it to do. And it's not easy to fix... with so many moving parts. But here are five of the most common issues that show up in marketing messaging of all kinds. Let's straighten them out, shall we?

  • Unleash the Power of Video Marketing for Your Business: Five Ideas for Video Content

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    You probably have a social media presence and a blog, but if you really want to make a lasting impression on your online audience, you need to be creating videos. Here's a look at why video marketing is one of the most effective methods of brand promotion there is—and how you can use it to your advantage.

  • Super Distracted: What Consumers Do During the Super Bowl [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Advertising & Promotions

    Many consumers do not devote their full attention to what's happening on the field while the Super Bowl is on, according to recent research from AdColony.

  • 15 Ways to Tap the Power of Collaborative Content

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Two heads are better than one, right? So let's explore the immense possibilities of content created through collaboration. We start with 5 reasons to produce collaborative content, and then move on to 15 ways to bring collaborative content to life. See how to make content creation easier, more fruitful, and highly effective.

  • Podcasts as a Learning (and Teaching) Medium for Marketing (And More)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    How can busy marketers make time for learning when we're already having trouble keeping our head above water with our day-to-day responsibilities? Podcasts are one of the most efficient ways to learn (and teach). They're easy to access, portable, economical. But where to start? Check out this list of 18 podcasts.

  • How Customer Participation Builds Trust in the Age of GDPR

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    "Customer participation" is sometimes used interchangeably with "customer engagement," but the former is so much more than the latter. In today's competitive business landscape, customer participation trumps customer engagement. Here's why the time to invest in customer participation is now.

  • The Worst SEO Mistake You Can Make: Ignoring Content Distribution

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Content marketing has proven itself time and time again, but merely producing content doesn't guarantee business or even marketing success. There's already too much content being produced. So what's the solution to making content marketing work for you? The answer is content distribution, and here's what you can do about it.

  • Direct Response Copywriting: How to Craft Copy That Converts [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Writing

    Direct response copywriting isn't easy. Your job is to drive conversions and sales, and that requires a savvy sense for your audience, a firm grasp on your value prop, and an arsenal of powerful writing tricks like these.

  • 2018 Year-end Episode of Marketing Smarts: What Marketers Need to Know for 2019 [VIDEO]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    21 industry stars, 21 pieces of valuable advice for you to up your marketing game in the new year: don't miss this special yearend video episode of the Marketing Smarts podcast!

  • How Quickly Should Brands Respond to Consumers on Social Media?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Most US adults say brands should respond to consumers' comments on social media within a day, according to recent research from Clutch.

  • A Small Business Guide to Facebook Chatbots [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Martech

    Small businesses have a reputation for being more personal than big corporations, but that doesn't mean that technology can't help. In fact, chatbots may be a way to give your customers even more customized attention than you could otherwise. Check out the infographic to see how.

  • 2019 B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Most B2C marketers are seeing improved results from content marketing and plan to increase their spending on it in the year ahead, according to annual research from MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute.

  • How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Inbound Sales Inquiries: Get Found by Buyers

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Many of us make the mistake of treating LinkedIn as simply an online Rolodex or a glorified CV, rather than an inbound marketing channel that can be optimized for sales inquiries. That is a huge misstep. Find out how to turn your LinkedIn profile into a powerful inbound sales asset.