Tag: Content

20Jul By juthompson@hubspot.com (Justina Thompson)No Comments

AEO, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

The top content formats & types that earn AI search citations

There’s no denying it: Search behaviors have changed. As more queries are answered directly by AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity, the shifts reshaping search are forcing marketers to rethink ranking and, just as crucially, learn how to write for AI search rather than just for a list of blue links. (more…)

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10Feb By Stephanie TrovatoNo Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, SEO

How to audit your content for AI search engines

An AI engine optimization audit evaluates brand visibility, accuracy, and citations in AI-powered search engines. It highlights how a brand appears across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot, and identifies gaps in the facts, descriptions, and links these systems rely on. In contrast, a traditional SEO audit focuses on website rankings and technical health in classic search engines. (more…)

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16Dec By Cassie Wilson ClarkNo Comments

ai-hidden, artificial intelligence, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

AI-powered email content suggestions that actually convert leads

AI-powered email content suggestions are changing how marketing teams write, test, and scale email campaigns. Instead of guessing what message will resonate, marketers can now use AI to analyze data, predict engagement, and generate personalized content that converts. (more…)

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4Sep By John VuongNo Comments

googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Internet marketing, quality, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO, seo company, seo services

How to Make Fabulous, Hard-hitting, and Accessible Content

One of the reasons that so many Internet marketers outsource their writing work to contractors is because they want their content to really pop. Whether you are an editor, a marketing expert, or content producer yourself, it is crucial that you get a good education in content marketing. Understanding effective content marketing will help you hire the best possible writer if you are not writing the content for your website on your own, and if you are a writer it will help you deliver hard-hitting content consistently to your clients. Create Content that Sells “Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.” – Neil Patel How exactly does one create excellent content that draws viewers in and retains their attention? It is crucial to minimize the bounce...

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14May By Hyacinth EmpinadoNo Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, social media marketing, video marketing

The best social media platforms for video content in 2025 [consumer data]

Video is everywhere right now. As a basic Millennial, my video diet mostly consists of YouTube and Instagram, but hop on any social media platform, and I bet you’ll run into a short-form video as you scroll through your feed. With TikTok’s future uncertain, many social media platforms are trying to capture more of their audience and debuting features to support vertical videos. YouTube, Instagram, and even LinkedIn are now constantly pushing out updates to elevate video content. “Everyone wants to be like TikTok and they‘re saying, ‘Let’s take a gamble here,’” says Brian Alves, founder of Marketing Nerds. Before we explore the vast video options marketers have at their disposal, let's dive into the importance of social media videos, where consumers are watching them, and other important f...

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21Dec By Sharath ByloliNo Comments

Content Planning, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Content Marketing Team Dynamics That Deliver Results

As a content professional with almost a decade in the game, I have been a part of several content marketing teams and projects. While each project came with its own objectives and obstacles, one thing remained constant: a consistent underestimation of what a content marketing team achieves for the organization at large. The natural assumption about content marketing teams is that we write a bunch of blogs with some SEO guidelines or create some witty social media posts, and voila, the job is done! As an insider, I have seen firsthand that a solid content marketing team does much more than this. Content is the driver of discoverability for a company, and a solid content marketing team will help you achieve that. The fact that 45% of marketing and media leaders plan to increase their conte...

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17Jun By Megha SharmaNo Comments

Blog, How-Tos, instagram, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, Social Media Engagement, social media marketing

How to Plan and Organize Your Instagram Content Calendar?

Have you ever wondered how some brands are so consistent on Instagram? It seems crazy how they pump out engaging and trendy content daily. Maybe you have heard of something called an Instagram content calendar! If you are struggling to keep up with your Instagram posts and not creating consistent content, you also need to create a calendar for your Instagram. You don’t need to think, what do I create next? Do I need anything else for this post, or when was this post supposed to come out? You are completely liberated from the mental space that was occupied by these questions once you start using an Instagram content calendar. So, if you are looking for the easiest way to create an Instagram calendar, you have stepped in the right place. In this blog, we will see how to create a content cale...

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13Apr By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments

building website, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, responsive web design, Web, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

What Negative Effects Does a Bad Website Design Have On My…

March 29, 2024 Consumer expectations for a responsive, immersive, and visually appealing website experience have never been higher. In fact, 72% report that a badly designed website affects their opinion of a business. If your website is badly designed, you may lose potential customers, waste money, increase bounce rates, decrease conversion rates, and damage your search engine optimization (SEO) rankings. So, it...

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6Apr By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

facebook, facebook marketing, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

Meta Updates AI Labeling Policy to Expose Generated Content in its Apps

Meta’s updating its AI content labels to ensure that a broader range of synthetic content is being tagged, in response to a growing flood of generative AI posts in the app. Over the past few months, more and more AI engagement bait has been showing up on Facebook, and has also been generating a heap of engagement. Like, even the slightest level of scrutiny would reveal that this is not a real image. But Facebook is used by billions of people, and not all of them are going to zoom in, or have the digital literacy to even be aware that generative AI can even be used in this way (as denoted by the 6.9k Likes on this post). As such, Meta’s updating its AI labeling policies to ensure that more AI-generated content is tagged and disclosed accordingly. As per Meta: “Our existing approach is t...

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25Mar By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments

building website, creating a website, development, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

How to Plan Your First Successful Website

5 days ago Planning a new website can be exciting and — if you’re anything like me — a little daunting. Whether you’re an experienced freelancer, a team of hardened developers, or a small business owner, a well-structured plan is critical for success. In this post, I’ll give you the benefit of my experience, guiding you through the essential steps of planning a web design project and ensuring that you start off ...

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13Mar By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments

building website, Compilations, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

20 Best New Websites, March 2024

2 days ago Welcome to our pick of sites for March. This month’s collection tends towards the simple and clean, which goes to show that minimalism never truly goes out of style. Whether it’s about getting a lot of information across, or using space to create a sense of luxury, keeping things appear simple is an approach that solves many design challenges. Enjoy! Integrated Reasoning makes processors that solve o...

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2Mar By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

facebook, facebook marketing, instagram, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, twitter

Threads Launches Live Test of its API, Enabling Content Scheduling in Some Third Party Apps

Good news for social media managers, and a potentially significant update for Threads engagement overall, with Meta’s Twitter-like platform now live testing its API with selected partners, enabling, among other things, post scheduling in the app. As explained by Jesse Chen, an engineer working on Threads, the Threads team has now partnered with a range of third party platforms on the first stage of live testing for its API, which has been in development for the past few months. As per Chen: “The API currently enables users to authenticate, publish threads, and fetch the content they posted through these tools – and soon, we will enable reply moderation and insights capabilities. We are now testing with a small number of partners - Grabyo, Hootsuite, Social Newsdesk, Sprinklr, Sprout Social...

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26Feb By esantiago@hubspot.com (Erica Santiago)No Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

How to Rebrand as a Content Creator and Stay Relevant [Expert Tips]

Welcome to The Creative, a series that gives content creators actionable advice from professionals in the creator economy. Whether you're a seasoned creator or just starting out, read The Creative to learn how to grow your platform, improve your content, and stay ahead in the ever-shifting creator landscape. Years ago, I underwent a total rebrand. Before joining HubSpot, I was content creating for years as a local journalist in Florida. So, most of my social media handles and content were geared toward news and politics. However, I eventually left the news business and started creating content for myself. Soon, my content transitioned from news stories to videos, podcasts, and blog posts about anime, manga, and "nerdom." As I've said in other blog posts, I'm a hobbyist regarding content c...

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11Feb By John VuongNo Comments

content marketing, googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Online marketing, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO, SEO APP & Web Development, seo services

How Web Design Impacts Content Marketing

The relationship between web design and content marketing is crucial for success in the digital age. The effectiveness of content marketing is closely linked to the intricacies of web design. A well-designed website is not just a digital façade but a strategic asset that significantly influences the reach and impact of content marketing efforts. Understanding the profound interplay between how web design impacts content marketing is essential for achieving success in the digital age. The First Impression Matters Your website is often the initial touchpoint with potential clients. As in a physical store, the first impression holds significant weight. A well-designed website captivates and welcomes visitors. Conversely, a cluttered or outdated design may deter prospective customers even befo...

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28Jan By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, twitter

X Looks to Improve Content Moderation After Issues with AI Images and Bot Farms

Content moderation remains a major challenge on X, despite owner Elon Musk insisting that its crowd-sourced Community Notes are the key solution for combatting harmful content. Last week, AI-generated images of singer Taylor Swift being sexually assaulted by NFL fans gained huge traction on X, reaching over 27 million views, and 260,000 likes, before the originating account was suspended. Swift is now reportedly exploring legal action against X and the creator of the content, while X, unable to stop the spread of the pictures, despite that initial suspension, has now banned all searches for “Taylor Swift” in the app in response. Which is not exactly a great endorsement of the effectiveness of its Community Notes approach. And while this content is in violation of X’s Sensitive Media poli...

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27Jan By Phil NorrisNo Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

19 Best fonts for blogs: How to create eye-catching, readable content

By Phil Norris January 25, 2024 Online audiences have short attention spans, so it’s vital you make it easy for them to consume and retain the most content in the shortest possible time. That’s why it pays to nail your choice of blog fonts.Your chosen font should be stylish and align with your branding, while also being easy and enjoyable to read. In this article, we’ll explain the importance of fonts, discuss key considerations for choosing the right font, and round up the 19 best fonts for blogs (plus which size to use).  And, as an added bonus, we’ll analyze the fonts used by some of the world’s top blogs. Let’s get into it… Why fonts for blogs matter Fonts play a key role in the readability of your blog posts. One study found that adjusting font style an...

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25Jan By esantiago@hubspot.com (Erica Santiago)No Comments

content creation, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, PPC

The Ultimate Guide to Content Creation

As a marketer and content creator who makes content ranging from podcasts to blogs to videos, I‘m often fielding questions about what content creation is and why it’s so integral to marketing. Content creation is what happens behind the scenes. It‘s how Google can offer the perfect answer to your problem with a link to a blog or website. It’s the videos you watch on YouTube after a tough day. It‘s why you may find yourself scrolling through TikTok for hours a day. Don’t worry, I'm not judging you. I do it too. (more…)

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15Jan By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

building website, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, Learn Web Design, social media, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

Learning to Appreciate Great Content

The web is teeming with content. There are articles, videos, and podcasts to serve every niche. And we can’t forget about the many newsletters out there. That certainly applies to web design and all its subgenres. Perhaps we should be celebrating this golden age of content creation. Publishing is easier than ever. We can learn just about anything we want on demand. How cool is that? It’s worth wondering if we’re pushing the limits of the human mind, though. There’s so much content that we can become overwhelmed. It may also lead us to devalue those who create it. For example, consider your social media habits. How many times have you “liked” content – even if you didn’t bother to read it? I find myself doing this quite often. The act represents a tiny show of support – which is fine. But i...

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11Jan By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

facebook, facebook marketing, snapchat, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, twitter, youtube

X May Look to Gate Some Video Content to Premium Subscribers Only

Along with X’s new slate of video programming, headlined by exclusive shows from popular TV identities Don Lemon, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jim Rome, the platform is also exploring a new monetization avenue for that content, which will push users to subscribe to X Premium in order to view certain episodes and updates. That’s according to a new finding in the back-end code of the app, which indicates a new prompt that’ll force users to sign-up to keep watching after a certain point in the playback. As you can see in this example code snippet, shared by social media expert Chris Messina, X is seemingly developing new prompts that will be triggered after a viewer watches for a certain amount of time, pushing them to sign-up to Premium to keep watching. There’s not a lot of info to go on at this...

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5Jan By Adrian BoyselNo Comments

ai, Blog, brand identity, canva, content, content marketing, Content Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, engagement, Execution Plans, Graphic Design, Increase Engagement, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, SEO, Trending, Trends/News

Disruptive Design: Raising the Bar of Content Marketing with Graphic Design

What if I told you that your content marketing strategy is only half as effective without using graphic design? It’s like serving a gourmet meal on a trash can lid – the quality is there, but the presentation is all wrong. Imagine that you’re scrolling through your favorite online platform – what stops your thumb in its tracks? Is it the lengthy posts, or the visuals that tell a story without even a single word? I think that answer is more obvious now than ever. As a digital marketer and graphic design veteran who has witnessed the evolution of the industry over the last 17+ years, I’ve come to a realization: in our rush to improve the process of content creation, most creators often underestimate the profound influence that graphic design has on their content. Every marketer knows t...

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26Dec By Adam JaffreyNo Comments

Blog, Consumer Engagement, Content Consumption, content marketing, Content Marketing Resources, Content Strategy, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Email Marketing, Internet marketing, long form content, Marketing Skills, marketing strategies, Marketing Topics, Online Marketing, Short Form Content, social media marketing, Traffic Generation

Attention Spans are Shrinking, but Long-form Content Still Rules — What’s the Catch?

Somewhere in the back of your mind, you probably remember reading at least one article saying that our attention spans are down to a “mere 8 seconds” — or “less than a goldfish”. While it sounds catchy, it’s not that simple. It’s easy to jump to conclusions and get swept up in the clickbaity narrative, but the research on human attention spans isn’t so clear cut.  In fact, some scientific studies seem to point in the completely opposite direction — humans have an enormous capacity for attention.  Our Problem is Not Attention — it’s Distraction  The core issue isn’t a lack of attention — it’s the multitude of distractions competing for our focus. The modern consumer’s attention hasn’t become scarcer, it’s just spread thinner. The growing popularity of platforms such as TikTok...

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23Dec By Rebecca RiserbatoNo Comments

Blog Optimization, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, PPC

Apply That Ish to Content Strategy

Somewhat like the vastness of interstellar space, it’s hard for me to fathom just how much stuff there is for sale in the world — it’s staggering. (more…)

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4Oct By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments

building website, Compilations, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2023

2 days ago Welcome to our all treats-no tricks, October tools collection. This month, we have a whole bag of goodies for designers, developers, and designevelopers alike. (Yes, we did just make up a new word.) There are some great new assets, apps, and resources for boosting your creativity and speeding up your workflow. Over the past few months, we have noticed a lot of existing tools are getting added AI enhancements, so expect to see some of these alongside brand-new offerings. Enjoy! Warm up your creative muscles with this ebook containing over 170 creative exercises to help you raise your game and stay in peak condition. This collection of 17 brushes will have you covered for fountain, dip, and brush pens. Use for lettering, drawing, and calligraphy. Perception is an AI-powe...

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6Sep By mbutler@hubspot.com (Maggie Butler)No Comments

content creation, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

How to Become a Content Creator: 10 Steps

Are you brimming with ideas, creativity, and a passion to share your unique perspective with the world? If so, becoming a content creator might just be the perfect avenue for you. (more…)

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23Aug By Kaleigh MooreNo Comments

content ideas, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

18 Best Content Creation Tools That Will Make Creating Content a Breeze

By Kaleigh Moore August 22, 2023 Want to attract people to your business? It only takes two words: create value. Online, we call anything of value “content,” and it comes in all sorts of forms. eBooks, webinars, blog posts, videos, social media threads. If they attract potential customers, we call it content marketing.But while publishing great content can establish your reputation, there’s still one problem. Noise. Everyone else is creating content, too. And that noise is getting louder. 54% of businesses plan on increasing their content marketing budgets in 2023. How do you stand out? By not stretching yourself too thin. You need tools and strategies to make every piece of content count. Even better, you can leverage every possible content creation tool to impro...

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18Aug By Sean TinneyNo Comments

Blogging, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing, social media

10 Innovative ways to repurpose your content + real-life examples

By Sean Tinney August 17, 2023 Anyone who writes regularly, can relate to this – It takes a lot of time and effort just coming up with the right topics. Then on top of that you have to actually write it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it some more. As a content creator, you don’t just write for one channel, most likely you write for multiple channels – like a blog, newsletter, social media.There are a few goals you should try to achieve with anything you write: 1 – Don’t be boring  2 – Teach the reader something they may not know 3 – Leave an impression that causes readers to feel like they have to respond or react Because of these goals (really, they’re my rules for writing engaging content), there are days where you may struggle to come up with content ideas. Then whe...

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5Aug By Julie PetersenNo Comments

Blog, content marketing, facebook, facebook marketing, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

14 Powerful Tips to Write Amazing Content for Your Facebook Audience

From a marketing perspective, Facebook is one of the most incredible places in the digital space. It is where you can heighten the popularity and reputation of your brand. Nevertheless, Facebook is the social engine that allows webmasters, entrepreneurs, and marketers to connect with consumers. So how do the big brands connect with their customers? Well, they do it through content. Content development was, is, and will be necessary and essential for the online marketplace to function correctly. Content is complex.  Many webmasters fail to grow successful businesses due to their inability to leverage content in the most appropriate manner. We believe that strategic content that is also strategically promoted on social media networks (such as Facebook) will turn any small or big business i...

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6Jul By Val RazoNo Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing, social media

How to Create Content for Instagram that Drives Engagement

By Val Razo July 5, 2023 The idea of using social media for small businesses isn’t new.  According to the State of Small Business Digital Marketing Report, 72% of small businesses invest in social media marketing, and they find social media platforms most valuable when it comes to business promotion and building relationships with customers.But when you run your own business and you have a lot on your plate, it’s nearly impossible to show up on every social media platform. With 2 billion active users, 90% of whom follow at least one business account on the platform, it’s no wonder that small business owners opt for Instagram. When done right, Instagram helps small businesses boost brand awareness, increase trust, create a strong connection with potential customers, and eve...

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25Jun By Caroline ForseyNo Comments

Content Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

How to Develop a Content Strategy in 7 Steps: A Start-to-Finish Guide

Whether you're just starting out with content marketing or you've been using the same approach for a while, it never hurts to revisit your content strategy plan and make sure it's up-to-date, innovative, and engaging for your prospects and customers — no matter when or how they intend to buy. (more…)

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10Jun By SEO NinjaNo Comments

googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Local SEO, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO, seo services

Content Marketing Driving Success Through Valuable Content

For effective marketing and content creation, it is important to understand your target audience. It includes understanding their demographics, interests, behavior and pain points. You can custom design your content to address a buyer persona needs and preferences. It builds a trust and drives business growth. A. Identifying your target audience It is necessary to identify and understand your target audience before creating content. This involves defining the demographics, interests, pain points, and behaviors of your ideal customers. By developing buyer personas and fictional representations of your target audience segments, you can tailor your content to resonate with their specific needs and preferences. B. Conducting market research It is one of the most important elements in content m...

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3Jun By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

building website, Create a website, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

Using AI for Website Content Creation and Management

Highly likely that the beginning of this decade will go down in history with the rise of AI for website content creation. Almost every day we can hear that neural networks have reached the next milestone in their evolution. And the result really impresses with human-like quality or even better.  It makes sense for every web developer to put AI in the way of serving tasks and daily routines. That could significantly improve the content and make life easier.  AI for Website Content Creation and Management on WP There are plenty of ways to implement artificial intelligence in different types of web development such as content, coding, media, forms, SEO, chatting, etc. But in this review, I want to put light on WordPress AI content generators with entire plugins. Fortunately, there are a lot o...

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19May By Ann SmartyNo Comments

ai, Blog, content, content creation, content marketing, Content Marketing Resources, Content Strategy, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Time-Saving Effective Content Creation Tips

Creating niche content is something all brands should do in order to catch their audience at various stages of their buying cycles. Content diversifies your rankings, builds your brand’s recognizability, and helps create more conversion funnels throughout the site. But there’s one huge problem with publishing new content on your site: Time. Few brands can afford writing teams, and relying on freelancers brings in new risks like inconsistency in voice and lower quality. How to teach your in-house writers to create more content faster and more productively? Here are a few tips: Stop Agonizing About Word Count Somehow “long-form” content became the best content creation tactic at some point. Just about any content strategy started evolving around “the more words the bette...

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11May By fneedle@hubspot.com (Flori Needle)No Comments

Content Planning, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

What Is Content Intelligence?

The way businesses collect data is changing. But data is essential to great content strategy. That's why content intelligence is coming into the conversation. (more…)

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17Apr By fneedle@hubspot.com (Flori Needle)No Comments

Breaking the Blueprint, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Discrepancies Experienced by Black Content Creators (Expert Insight)

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success. (more…)

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13Apr By SEO NinjaNo Comments

googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Local SEO, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO, seo services

5 Interesting Ways To Get Improved Conversions With Interactive Content

Effective website has no meaning without engaging content. Websites which are considered to be powerful marketing tool promote conversions of leads with careful use of SEO services for any business. Also, websites necessarily need to have interactive and engaging content. Many E-commerce businesses have shared their experiences of trying all actions related to content like writing a blog, publishing an e-book and more but nothing turned conversions in their favor. Can you tell what may have gone wrong? Interactive content marketing is answer to all your queries as ultimate goal of attracting more number of prospects and retaining them as loyal customers can be achieved with this one vast term. When swaying web traffic towards your website is not your only look out but you want augmented c...

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11Apr By Guarav SharmaNo Comments

Blog, content, content creation, content marketing, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Drive More Traffic, email outreach, engagement, facebook, instagram, Internet marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Social, social media, social media marketing, Traffic Generation, twitter

From Clicks to Conversions: Create Content that Boosts Engagement

Looking to create awesome social media content to boost engagement? It’s a given that creating engaging social media content is crucial for building a strong online presence, engaging your audience, and growing leads and sales.  But how do you get it right? Here are some tips and examples. 9 Tips To Create Social Media Content That Boosts Engagement Start by creating professional and compelling social media profiles. Then use these tips when creating content.  1. Know Your Audience Knowing your audience is the key to marketing success, whether it’s in email personalization or creating tailored social media content.  For instance, Canva creates tailored messages for each of its target groups. This is a post for nonprofits. And here is content created for teachers....

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2Apr By Digital MarketerNo Comments

Blog, content, content marketing, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Marketing, Online Marketing, Social, social media, tiktok, tiktok ads, videos

Dramatically Maximize Your Content Output [VIDEO]

TikTok Ad Masterclass Join Maxwell Finn, President of Unicorn Inventions and DigitalMarketer’s TikTok Marketing Expert, as he breaks down the Ford Method that will dramatically increase your creative output. Download The Ford Method Ad Checklist to follow along. WHAT IS DIGITALMARKETER: DigitalMarketer is the premier online community for digital marketing professionals. It’s a place where you can learn how to market like a pro, connect with industry experts, and get the strategies and tools you need to grow and scale your business to new heights. The post Dramatically Maximize Your Content Output [VIDEO] appeared first on DigitalMarketer.

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28Mar By Julia McCoyNo Comments

ai, AI Marketing, AIO, Blog, content, content marketing, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, future, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing

What Is AIO? The New Model Revolutionizing Content & Predictions About AI

In 1936, the creator of Turing Machines predicted that a machine would one day be able to think like a human, if not even outperform the human.  It’s 2023, and we’re officially here. 82% of marketers believe that AI will be the future of marketing—in fact, many of them already believe AI writes better than a human (Capterra study). Well, with ChatGPT flying past 100 million users in just two months…we’re living in the future. AI is revolutionizing the way we work, think, and create.  I joined Content at Scale as the VP of Marketing this January in a bold move of ‘adapting or die’ for my career in content—one month in, what I’m seeing, learning, and facilitating for marketers and teams is blowing my mind. Let’s talk about it. Reduce Content Overhead Costs and Frustrations ...

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12Mar By Aanya RachelNo Comments

Blog, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, tiktok

10 TikTok Content Ideas for Businesses

With 1 billion active users across 154 countries, TikTok has become a powerful business marketing tool. Most businesses are leveraging it to promote their products and services. If you are one of those few businesses that do not use TikTok thinking it is geared only toward young audiences, it’s time to debunk the myth. According to recent statistics, around 21% of TikTok users in the US are above 30, 20% are above 40, and 11% are above 50. In addition, 40% of users belong to Gen Z. In short, TikTok can help you engage a vast range of audiences, thereby boosting brand awareness and chances of conversions. However, TikTok users consume 167 million videos within a minute. This makes it challenging for businesses to ideate new TikTok content ideas consistently. In this post, we will share 10 T...

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11Mar By AmyNo Comments

Business Organization & Systems, content, contractors, employees, facebook, facebook marketing, hiring, podcast, Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, support, Team Building

#552: How To Find, Hire, & Onboard A Content Support Contractor – Amy Porterfield

Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode: #552: How To Find, Hire, & Onboard A Content Support Contractor Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode:#552: How To Find, Hire, & Onboard A Content Support Contractor

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9Mar By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, twitter

Tips for Optimizing Your Content for SEO [Infographic]

Are you keeping SEO in mind when you go about creating content? With all the various changes in search, including generative AI, which is revamping elements of content creation, SEO may seem like a lesser consideration, but it remains a critical element in maximizing discoverabilty, and getting your brand in front of your target audience. It doesn’t have to be the central focus – creating good, helpful, relevant content should be the main aim of your posts. But it is something to factor in, as another aspect of your development system. This will help. The team from SEMRush have put together a one-sheeter on how to optimize your content for SEO, highlighting all the key considerations to keep in mind as you go about writing your blog posts. Worth keeping handy – check out the full overvie...

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28Feb By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

The How and Why of Content Curation [Infographic]

Struggling to fill out your content calendar, or make relevant connections in your industry? Content curation could be the solution, providing a simple means to both add new content into your mix, while also crediting relevant creators, and establishing connections and credibility. When done right. There are good and bad ways to curate, and while it should never be your central content approach, it can work as a supplementary and complementary element. This new infographic from the team at Quuu outlines the full content curation process, including the what, how and why of curating on social media. It could help you formulate a more effective approach – check out the notes below.

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26Feb By Sean TinneyNo Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email content, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

Does human-written or AI-generated content perform better?

By Sean Tinney February 22, 2023 We tested an email written by a human versus one written by artificial intelligence, discover which is better for your emails. Artificial intelligence (also referred to as AI) is taking over. It is everywhere from social media, digital assistants, chat bots, to the transportation industry. It’s even in food services. Have you seen these AI-robot fast food restaurants? As the use of artificial intelligence continues to expand, it’s no surprise that it has made its way into email marketing. One area in particular where AI has been gaining attention is in the creation of email content. While human-written emails are what we all know and have written for years, many marketers are turning to AI-generated content. But is this better? Surely people ...

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23Feb By Joshua LeeNo Comments

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The Intelligent Content Revolution: How AI is Driving the Next Wave of Marketing

You’ve probably seen it all over the internet… making waves on just about every social media platform out there.   Artificial intelligence, let me rephrase that – CHATGPT3. The monster that has awakened Microsoft to invest $10 billion. But why? Does Microsoft truly believe that AI will change the way we consume information and produce it?  Or the even bigger question… Will artificial intelligence replace us as humans in the content marketing world? 🌎 Well, stick with me for a sec, because the answer isn’t as simple as “yes you should be afraid of AI replacing humans” or “you shouldn’t worry about your job.”   What is AI Anyways? Researchers in the field of AI strive to create systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.   These task...

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19Feb By fneedle@hubspot.com (Flori Needle)No Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, social media marketing

The Types of Content on Social Media [New Data]

According to our 2023 Marketing Strategy Trends Report, 42% of marketers leverage social media, and it has the highest ROI of any channel. With this in mind, sharing content on social media is a no-brainer. (more…)

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8Feb By Darren ShawNo Comments

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Does Google Penalize AI-Generated Content?

With the rise of AI, many businesses and SEOs are turning to Artificial Intelligence for generating SEO-optimized website content. However, Google is constantly rolling out new updates to combat spam, and they can and do sometimes crack down on AI-generated content. Watch my new video to find out how AI-generated articles may hurt your website. Video Transcript Case Studies on AI-Generated Website Content I saw this comment on LinkedIn. Graham had talked about how they were generating AI content at scale, 50 pages generated in one click, and how these pages are actually performing pretty well. Then, Mark Williams Cook, a very smart SEO, replied and said: “well here’s what happened when we did it on 10,000 pages.” So, it was going really well, ranking really well. An...

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5Feb By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments

Content Creation Resources, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

45 Free Content Writing Tools to Love [for Writing, Editing & Content Creation]

Creating content isn't always a walk in the park. (In fact, it can sometimes feel more like trying to swim against the current.) While other parts of business and marketing are becoming increasingly automated, content creation is still a very manual job. (more…)

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3Feb By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

17 Content Options for Each Stage of the Sales Journey [Infographic]

Looking to formulate a better content strategy for 2023? This will help – the team from Orbit Media has put together a listing of 17 content formats, and where they fit within the sales funnel which could provide some inspiration for your planning. There are some good pointers here, with specific approaches that you can take at each stage of the journey. Check out the full listing below – while you can read more on the Orbit Media website.

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16Jan By Dario SupanNo Comments

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Best Practices for Content Marketing in 2023

There is no silver bullet in content marketing. Just as there is no universally best approach to fat loss, you would be hard-pressed to find one content marketing strategy that works for every business.  However, that doesn’t mean your efforts are futile. Far from it. For 85% of businesses that use it, content marketing performs from moderately to exceedingly well. Part of that success comes from understanding and following the industry’s best practices.   Now, before we dive into best practices for 2023, let’s quickly run through foundational content marketing principles you need to follow regardless of the year on your calendar. The Core Principles of Content Marketing  Even if you follow best practices discussed later in the article, your content marketing strategies are bou...

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1Jan By Lindsey MillerNo Comments

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Why Content Marketing is the Only Marketing Left

With more people using ad-blocking software to shut out unsolicited ads, the future looks bleak for marketers. But content marketing is the silver lining. And there are many reasons why the future is bright. Traditional marketing relies on outbound systems. It’s about reaching out to consumers to interest them in your product. This approach subjects consumers to marketing messages they don’t want.  Content marketing is inbound. It’s about creating and sharing content that helps consumers achieve their goals without asking for anything in return. Who can say no to free help? Consumers can now research their challenges online, increasing content’s value. When you share information that helps consumers live better, they will keep coming back for more. And when they need a product or ...

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29Dec By bcoleman@hubspot.com (Basha Coleman)No Comments

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The Social Media Content Calendar Template Every Marketer Needs [Free Template]

Have you been on a time crunch to create social media content? (more…)

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8Dec By Chris BournelisNo Comments

Blog, content, content marketing, copywriting, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, traffic

How to Create Evergreen Content That Generates Traffic to Your Site

Every digital marketer understands that publishing articles or blog posts on your website is an excellent way to create content for your SEO strategy and build awareness. On top of that, you also get to connect to your audience on a deeper level. However, many marketers focus on publishing seasonal content or articles on trending topics, which can drive traffic, but only for a limited time. According to HubSpot’s State of Marketing Trends Report (2022), 83% of marketers say it’s better to focus on quality rather than quantity of content, even if it means publishing fewer blog posts. But if your content depends on trending topics, how can you create quality content that lasts? Enter evergreen content. First, let’s be honest; creating evergreen content isn’t a walk in the park. M...

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8Dec By AmyNo Comments

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#524: How To Monetize Your Instagram (Without Changing Your Content Strategy) With Natasha Willis – Amy Porterfield

Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode: #524: How To Monetize Your Instagram (Without Changing Your Content Strategy) With Natasha Willis Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode:#524: How To Monetize Your Instagram (Without Changing Your Content Strategy) With Natasha Willis

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10Nov By Mark de GrasseNo Comments

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A Revolutionary New Way to Look at Content Marketing Strategy

Content marketing has been overly complicated, explained, and misunderstood for TOO LONG. You know your brand needs it, you want to do it, but you’re afraid of wasting time and money on a method you JUST DON’T GET. How does content lead to sales? How much time and money should you spend on it? Does content really have revenue-driving value? Before we dive into the solution, let’s define what is and isn’t “content marketing” in the context of our new way of looking at strategy. What Is and Isn’t Content Marketing Content Marketing is the process of content creation & organization. Many people confuse it with content distribution, which is the promotion of the content you create through channels like social media marketing, email marketing, and paid media. Content Marketi...

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5Nov By Jenny HanNo Comments

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Helping Affiliates Create Satisfactory Long-Form Content

Affiliates are important to have, if you own a business (brick-and-mortar or online). Nowadays, in the online realm, you and your business will need all the publicity that you can get. That’s where affiliates come in! With affiliates, you’ll be able to spread the word further about your product or service. One of the best ways to go further with affiliates is to have them produce long-form content. Long-form content can come in various forms, including online guides and eBooks. Long-form content can be great work for affiliates, while it can be a gold mine for businesses. So, if you’re not taking advantage of long-form content, then now is the time to do so! Good news! You’re in luck! In this guide, you’ll learn about long-form content, why it’s beneficial to your business, and ho...

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25Oct By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

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Pinterest Launches New Video Content Approach via Partnership with The Louvre

Pinterest has announced a new activation, in partnership with The Louvre, which will enable users to experience the historic art gallery via video elements within the app. The video series will take users behind the scenes, and showcase unseen elements of the space, providing more engagement opportunities. As explained by Pinterest: “Through a series of original videos, ”A look at the Louvre,” shares the museum's masterpieces and architecture at the crossroads of centuries. The content features off-the-beaten-path tours to discover both its collections and the museum's courtyards and staircases, as well as unusual places. The videos invite viewers to admire details within the museum, such as beautifully crafted ceilings and views from the windows.” The new initiative is designed to expa...

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23Sep By Mike HawkesNo Comments

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The Helpful Content Update – BrightLocal

Just over a month ago, on August 18, 2022, Google announced an update to their algorithm that got people both fearful and excited. The update itself started rolling out a week later on August 25, and Google confirmed it was going to take a couple of weeks before people saw an impact. This change to the algorithm was named the Helpful Content Update (HCU). And, for the first time in a while, SEOs around the world thought they were going to see some seismic activity in the search engine results pages (SERPs), rather than small blips. Then, right after the rollout for the HCU had finished, they dropped another update on us. This update was the September 2022 Core Algorithm Update. So what actually happened? Where are we a few weeks down the line? Did people see their sites plummeting into obs...

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10Sep By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing, youtube

YouTube’s Experimenting with New Search and Engagement Insights to Help Guide Your Content Strategy

YouTube’s previewed some new analytics options coming to Creator Studio, which will provide more data on what your audience is interested in, based on their search and engagement activity, and how they’re interacting with different topics across the app. The new elements will be part of YouTube’s ‘Search Insights’, which it first previewed late last year. YouTube released the first phase of Search Insights back in April, which provides more data on what people are searching for in the app, both in relation to your channel and content more broadly. That can be helpful context for your planning, and now, YouTube’s adding even more depth to its Search Insights data, in order to help creators identify even more key trends and topics to guide their strategy. The first new element is ‘Watch I...

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16Aug By Michelle DaltonNo Comments

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Community Building for Retention, Awareness, Loyalty, Content, & Member Advocacy

A little birdy told me you want to know what this “Community” stuff is you keep hearing about. I promise it’s not scary, at least not as frightening as Data Tracking and Analytics.  Ahh, Numbers! No need to worry, you’re safe here, and the data can’t get you. At least, not in this particular post.  Community is a tale as old as time and is simply evolving along with humanity; perhaps it’s time you join the party!  I like curiosity so allow me to be your guide through the magical and underrated world of Community Building. By the time you finish reading, you’ll know what a Community is, why you should want one, and what a Community Builder can do for you. What is Community, and why is it important? If you ask the peeps at Merriam-Webster, the TL;DR version is that a co...

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15Aug By Samantha HackettNo Comments

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Instagram Content Creation Best Practices You Need To Apply

With over 2 billion monthly active users, Instagram is one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. And it is showing no sign of slowing down. It’s no wonder that countless companies are turning to ‘Gram to strengthen their online presence and drive more traffic. Of course, just like any social strategy, you’ll need to ensure you’re approaching your Instagram content in the right way to get great results. There’s more to becoming an Instagram success than sharing countless pictures online. You also need to figure out how you’re going to engage with your followers through every snap, Reel, story, and hashtag. Here are some of the most essential content creation best practices to add to your Insta campaigns. Instagram Video Content Best Practices Let’s start with a rising star in ...

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1Aug By Mickey AndersonNo Comments

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Content Marketing for Beginners – DigitalMarketer

A simple, 2-hour-per-month content marketing framework for the content beginner.  Content marketing is vital in developing your audience’s “know, like and trust” factor. It can overcome objections before they happen, increase the perceived value of your offers, and increase customer lifetime. This simple framework will teach you how to create compelling content and repurpose it for multiple platforms in about 2-hours per month.  Core & Hygiene Content  There are two categories of content that every business needs in their content marketing strategy. Core Content and Hygiene Content.  Core Content is the core of your marketing efforts. It should deliver incredible value and include an opt-in. Creating Core Content is resource intensive, so how do you fill in the gaps in your...

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28Jul By Michael StelznerNo Comments

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LinkedIn Content Creation Success Tips : Social Media Examiner

Social Marketing Trends The data you've been missing! Need a new plan? Find out how thousands of marketers plan to change their social marketing activities in our 14th annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report. This 39-page report reveals what marketers have planned for their organic social activities, video marketing, social ads, and more. Get this free report now and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.

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9Jul By Larry KimNo Comments

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What Is a “Creator” and Should You Become One? Content Creator Pros & Cons

What is a creator? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a creator is someone who “creates by bringing something new or original into being.” This is in line with what a content creator does. So, what defines a content creator in 2022?  If you create online content, especially videos for social media—and monetize them—then you’re a creator. If you’re contemplating a career as a content creator and becoming a part of the creator economy, then this article is for you.  GET NEW ENGAGEMENT TOOLS TO GROW YOUR AUDIENCE IN INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK FROM MOBILEMONKEY Grow Instagram and Facebook followers and engagement with new tools for creators, influencers, artists, brands and D2C businesses. Sign up to be the first to use tools that generate elite engagement via Inst...

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13Jun By fneedle@hubspot.com (Flori Needle)No Comments

Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, social media marketing

15 TikTok Content Ideas for Businesses

A leaked TikTok for Business deckstated that the average user spends 89 minutes per day on the platform.Eighty-nine minutes is, inarguably, a long time to spend on an application. However, eighty-nine minutes means that businesses have invaluable opportunities to capture audience attention and generate interest. (more…)

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2Jun By Melissa PoppNo Comments

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Why E-A-T Inspires Local Content Creation

We’ve all educated ourselves on Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (E-A-T). We’ve all debated whether it’s a ranking factor or if it’s not. And we’ve all struggled to determine whether a client is part of a Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) niche and whether we should pay attention to E-A-T when making content decisions. E-A-T should inspire local content creation and all content creation at every level, no matter how big or small our clients are. E-A-T quickly shows us the type of considerations we should make when creating content, even if it doesn’t matter for checking off boxes for SEO best practices. It gives us a glimpse of the things that are important to Google and what they look for, but beyond that, it really shows us what we should find important when crafting conten...

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26May By Kevin PayneNo Comments

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9 Tips to Get More User-Generated Content for Your Brand

Collecting user-generated content or UGC has become an integral part of many successful marketing campaigns. One reason is that you build a repository of helpful and engaging content to publish. More importantly, people are 10 times more inclined to trust your brand and buy from you when you publish user-generated content on your website and social media accounts. That’s because UGC, like reviews and social media posts, are created by your users and existing customers based on their experience and opinions about your brand and products. The challenge, of course, is getting your customers to create them. That’s why I’ll be sharing with you today 9 tips to get more user-generated content for your brand that you can start doing today. Ask For Feedback From Users There’s a saying: “You have...

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11May By John VuongNo Comments

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How a Content Strategy Can Elevate Your Business

Content marketing is essential for any business. Whether it’s written, video, or images, the content you share with your prospects and customers helps define the image your brand has in the world. But what is content strategy exactly? Content marketing decides what you post, while content strategy determines what you create and where and why you post it. It sounds complicated, but we promise it’s intuitive when you work with the right expert. Learn about the benefits of investing in a content strategy, below. What Are the Components of a Content Strategy? Your strategy is a plan of action on how you’re going to deliver value to your customers that educates them about your brand simultaneously. Your strategy can (and should!) change with your business and the goals you’re investing in at t...

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6May By Doug BonderudNo Comments

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How Content Marketing & PR Combined Can Generate Leads

Public relations is the practice of creating mutually-beneficial relationships by providing relevant and timely information to an audience that already exists. Content marketing, meanwhile, is all about creating content that attracts and retains new audience members. (more…)

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1May By Celeste GonzalezNo Comments

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How to Identify Content Gaps for Local Businesses

Are you trying to create a local content strategy but have become stuck because lots of content recommendations are better suited to enterprise-level businesses? Well, don’t worry—there’s a way to adapt and overcome this obstacle by creating a user-intent content gap analysis for your clients. What is a Content Gap Analysis? A content gap analysis is the process of finding gaps in your content compared to your competitors. Performing one will allow you to find missed opportunities for pieces of content on your website, helping bring in traffic and eventually convert readers to buyers. How Content Gap Analysis is Done A content gap analysis is done by evaluating your competitors’ data to see how you stack up. What are the keywords they rank for? What keywords do you rank for? Which of those...

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30Apr By Amanda WinsteadNo Comments

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Content is Still King: Improving Local SEO With a Focus on Quality

Recently, Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller made a hard case for quality above all things SEO. However, the bar for uniqueness and quality is higher than ever. In our competitive digital landscape, how do you ensure your online efforts stand out? Fortunately for local businesses, your role in a geographically-based community gives you a point of uniqueness right there. You have a physical location and a demographic you can pinpoint. Now how do you win that audience with local SEO? The answer comes in two parts. First, content is still king, meaning it will take you further than anything else. Second, quality should be the baseline for every SEO decision.  Let’s discuss the ongoing importance of quality content in 2022, as well as the ways you can improve your local SEO with a focus on...

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18Apr By Moshe MorNo Comments

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AI is dangerous for content creators

The bad side of using AI as a content creatorPhoto by Rishabh Dharmani on UnsplashDon’t get me wrong, using AI as a part of your content creation process can be very helpful, and it can help with providing value to your readers and viewers. However, if you use it carelessly, it can be harmful to your career as a content creator.As the director of product management at Munch, I have access to a vast amount of data about content creation. I also took part in hundreds of interviews with content creators of all kinds. I noticed that many creators started using AI tools as a part of their creation process. I see great threats hiding in this trend.They came for your “own voice”Photo by Jason Rosewell on UnsplashIn a way, using AI to create content is a deception on your followers and your most l...

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12Apr By Maxwell IskievNo Comments

Content Planning, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

The HubSpot Blog’s 2022 Content & Media Strategy Report [Data]

Benjamin Franklin once said “Failing to plan is planning to fail,” and when it comes to content and media, truer words have never been spoken. (more…)

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1Apr By Corey MorrisNo Comments

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A Complete Guide To On & Off Page Local SEO Content

When you think about improving your local SEO, do you think about content? Maybe not. I’ll admit, it’s not always the first thing that comes to my mind. But here’s the thing – content directly affects local SEO, and overlooking it is a huge mistake. Yes, we might have limited text fields and places where we can input content. Hear me out, though. There’s more to it than you might think. Key Differences In Local & Organic SEO Content Strategies You may know about the content Google likes to see on a website and how to optimize it to show up higher on search engine result pages. But what about local content? How is that different? Here’s the thing, content strategies for local SEO and broader organic SEO aren’t actually that different. No matter what, good informative content should alw...

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22Mar By Anna CroweNo Comments

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9 Types Of Content That Will Help Your Local SEO

I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit searching for the best Mexican food, thumbing through Instagram posts, and picking the brain of local bloggers. In pursuit of my Pride Rock moment holding the king of tacos, I always return to Google. When I’m perusing through Google, I’m served Google Business Profile, Google Map, and local review information. Sadly, local websites are pushed down further and further in the local SERPs. In 2020, more than 65% of all Google searches resulted in the user getting the information they needed from the search results page. That number grew from 50% in 2019. Your website plays second fiddle to Google Business Profile and other Google search result features now. Back in the day, ranking for local SEO used to be pretty straightforward. You’d add your NAP ...

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21Mar By Anna CroweNo Comments

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9 Types Of Content That Will Help Your Local SEO

I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit searching for the best Mexican food, thumbing through Instagram posts, and picking the brain of local bloggers. In pursuit of my Pride Rock moment holding the king of tacos, I always return to Google. When I’m perusing through Google, I’m served Google Business Profile, Google Map, and local review information. Sadly, local websites are pushed down further and further in the local SERPs. In 2020, more than 65% of all Google searches resulted in the user getting the information they needed from the search results page. That number grew from 50% in 2019. Your website plays second fiddle to Google Business Profile and other Google search result features now. Back in the day, ranking for local SEO used to be pretty straightforward. You’d add your NAP ...

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2Mar By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

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Meta Releases New ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report for Facebook, Which Continues to be a Baffling Overview

Safe to say that Meta’s efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped. As a quick recap, last year, Facebook published its first ever ‘Widely Viewed Content’ report for Facebook, which it launched largely in response to this Twitter account, created by New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, which highlights the most popular Facebook posts every day, based on listings from Facebook's own CrowdTangle monitoring platform. The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:1. Occupy Democrats2. Ben Shapiro3. Occupy Democrats4. Ben Shapiro5. Ben Shapiro6. Bloomberg7. Occupy Democrats8. People9. VOA Burmese News10. Fox News— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) March 1, 2022 The listings ...

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1Mar By Saundra ChangNo Comments

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12 Must-have Tools Every Social Media Content Creator Needs to Drive Engagement in 2022

Creating scroll-stopping content that drives unicorn social media engagement — views, follows, likes, comments, shares and saves — is easier said than done.  Whether designing the perfect graphic, choosing the time to post, enabling the call to action, or incentivizing interaction, these are the must-have social media content creator & digital creator apps that any brand and marketer can enlist to make their content have max impact on their business goals. The social media content creator tools that we list here, we’ve vetted and use every day, and they span the whole content journey (from idea generation to conversion driving) saving us time and helping our content unicorns work harder. GET NEW INSTAGRAM TOOLS FROM MOBILEMONKEY Grow Instagram followers and engagement wi...

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22Feb By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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5 Types of Sales Enablement Content

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries ... it's FREE! Organizations lose more than $2 million every year from underused marketing materials. They don't realize that actively aligning Marketing with Sales can result in a 67% rise in organizations' ability to close deals. What ...

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7Feb By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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8 B2B Visual Content Marketing Ideas

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries ... it's FREE! If you want to connect with your prospects, leads, and customers online, you need to create content that engages them across multiple touch points. For that reason, B2B companies should use visual content marketing alongsi...

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2Feb By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Why Video and Podcasting Should Factor Into Your Content Marketing

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries ... it's FREE! Video and podcasting are not new marketing tools. Video has populated content plans for years, and podcasting shows up more every year. But one big takeaway from Casted's The State of the Content Marketer Report is that vi...

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30Jan By Sean TinneyNo Comments

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15 Tips for Writing Email Marketing Content that Increases Clicks

By Sean Tinney January 27, 2022 Increase your email clicks with these 15 tips for writing email marketing content. Your audience is probably short on time and skimming through emails. They may get several emails an hour throughout the day. To give yourself a fighting chance in the inbox, you need strong email marketing content. According to research done on email click rates, the data has shown: 53% of marketers say low click-through rates are their biggest email marketing challenge.73% of marketers say click-through rates are a key metric for evaluating campaign effectiveness.The average email click-through rate is 7% in the US.a Getting more clicks should be a central part of your strategy. Here are 15 tips on how to write effective email marketing content to boost...

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16Jan By Oliver StasinszkyNo Comments

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8 Social Media Content Marketing Strategy Examples to Avoid

Sure, you’ve established your brand on social media. But are you satisfied? Or is it something that you need to relook? Something that’s missing? According to Statista, there are over 3.6 billion active social media users worldwide, and that number is expected to reach 4.41 billion by 2025. Therefore, mere social media presence to get the word out about your brand is not enough. What you need is a strong content marketing strategy. Otherwise, you would end up wondering why your content is going unnoticed. And, you don’t want that. So in this article, we shall discuss a few social media content marketing strategy examples along with some common mistakes to avoid. But before that let’s first understand why do you need a content strategy for social media. Why is a Social Media Content Marketi...

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11Jan By Jason HennesseyNo Comments

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How To Create A Winning Local SEO Content Strategy

Local SEO has historically been seen as the art of directory optimization, Google Business Profiles, and locally-run ads.And while these methods are effective in getting you found in local search, they are just the tip of the iceberg of a successful local SEO strategy.Content plays a bigger role in local SEO than you might think. Whether it’s optimizing your web pages for local terms or posting on local business blogs, content marketing can and should be part of your local SEO approach.Here’s how to leverage content for your local SEO strategy and drive more visitors to your local business.Localize Your Web ContentThe first step in your local SEO content strategy should be to optimize your web pages for the local terms potential customers are searching for most. This requires keyword resea...

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9Jan By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Audio Content Marketing – How to Get Started

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Perhaps you know marketing professionals suffering from "Hot New Platform Exhaustion." The malady typically affects members of a marketing team who spend endless hours retooling content to fit specific platforms. Just as they begin to get the hang of thi...

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7Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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3 Email Newsletter Best-Practices for Content Performance

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Many companies and brands consistently make useful, informative content... which then merely sits on a website, hidden on a page that takes too many clicks to find. Marketers who want to get more out of their content, including blog posts, need to proper...

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23Nov By Miranda MillerNo Comments

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What’s The Best Local SEO Content Strategy For Targeting 100+ Areas?

In this week’s edition of Ask An SEO, Mehmet from Adana, Turkey, writes:“Hello there. I own a business that provides cleaning services and serves about 120 different neighborhoods.I want to create a separate article for each of the city, district, neighborhood, and service searches. Is this the right local strategy and what should the link structure look like?”Great question.Your question refers to articles and link structure, so we’ll focus on that today.But I want to make sure this isn’t your only local search strategy.A comprehensive local SEO strategy is also going to include:Wherever customers are searching for services like yours, you want to be there and either convert them immediately or direct them to your desired URL to learn more.So let’s talk about the idea of putting together ...

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20Nov By John VuongNo Comments

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How Content Marketing For Manufacturers Differs From Other Industries

Creating content has become the cornerstone of many marketing strategies. In fact, 93% of marketers in the B2B space use content as a part of their strategy. Needless to say, publishing high-quality content can help businesses attract leads and convert them into customers. However, as a manufacturing business, you’ve probably noticed that creating content isn’t as easy as it seems. That’s because the manufacturing industry has some unique qualities that should be considered when coming up with a content strategy.  If you’re interested in learning about some of the things you should keep in mind when creating content, we’ve got the information you need. Here are some of the ways content marketing for manufacturers is different from other industries.  Manufacturing Products Can Be Difficult ...

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16Nov By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

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New Study Highlights Key Trends and Traits in Viral TikTok Content [Infographic]

What works on TikTok, and what elements should you be focusing on in your TikTok content approach? The best answer, really, is organic content, with TikTok users responding better to ads and campaigns that align with the presentation styles and formats of user clips in the app. But if you want to dig a bit deeper – which no doubt many brands will be looking to do this holiday season – this new study from the team at SEMRush might help. To glean more insight into what TikTok users respond to, SEMRush conducted an analysis of 300 of the most popular TikTok clips to measure what the common elements were in each, what impact including certain hashtags and keywords might be (note: TikTok has previously stated that adding tags like ‘ForYou’ and ‘FYP’ have no impact on reach), and the variance in...

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30Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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6 Tips to Generate Leads With Marketing Content

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Although there's no magic bullet for increasing lead generation, a few simple and direct marketing fundamentals can help you boost response to your content. By applying those proven tactics to both your content and the material used to promote it, you ca...

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12Oct By Colan NielsenNo Comments

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Can Service Area Pages With Duplicate or Similar Content Increase Traffic?

Posted Oct 11, 2021 by Colan Nielsen At our April LocalU event, I covered Shades Of Grey: Controversial Local SEO Tactics that Drive Results. I covered local SEO tactics ranging from keyword stuffing to review snippets in the organic search results. One of the topics I discussed, which always draws a wide range of opinions, was the concept of creating service area pages that have duplicate, or very similar content. Duplicate, or similar content has always been a controversial topic. Google has confirmed on many occasions that duplicate content is not a negative ranking factor. It’s understood that Google can filter duplicate content from the search results, however, we have observed that when it co...

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6Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Salary Forecasts for Marketing, Content, and PR

The median starting salary for a corporate chief marketing officer in the United States is expected to be $170,000 in 2022, according to recent research from Robert Half. The report was based on data from staffing and recruiting professionals who make thousands of full-time, temporary, and project placements at brands and agencies each year. The researchers determined projected 2022 salary ranges for marketing, advertising, and public relations positions in the United States based on starting pay only; bonuses, incentives, and other forms of compensation were not taken into account. The projections were broken down into three percentiles: 25th (new to the type of role, still acquiring relevant skills), 50th/median (average experience, has most of the necessary skills), 75th (above-average ...

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30Sep By byNo Comments

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A Content Model Is Not a Design System – A List Apart

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have adopted an omnichannel content strategy, whose mission is to reach audiences across multiple digital channels and platforms. Article Continues Below But how do you set up a content management system (CMS) to reach your audience now and in the future? I learned the hard way that creating a content model—a definition of content types, attributes, and relationships that let people and systems understand content—with my more familiar design-system thinking would capsize my customer’s omnichannel content strategy. You can avoid that outcome by creating content models that are semantic and ...

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29Sep By Lisa D. JenkinsNo Comments

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Facebook Post Testing: How to Split Test Your Organic Content : Social Media Examiner

Social Marketing Trends The data you've been missing! Need a new plan? Find out how thousands of marketers plan to change their social marketing activities in our 14th annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report. This 40-page report reveals what marketers have planned for their organic social activities, video marketing, social ads, and more. Get this free report now and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.

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27Sep By Chandraveer SinghNo Comments

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7 Steps to Create a Victorious B2B Content Marketing Strategy

There are B2B companies that have much to offer but still can’t beat the competition. The reason? They don’t have a robust B2B content marketing strategy in place. Content marketing is straight-up the best way to engage with your prospects and turn them into potential customers. According to statistics, successful B2B marketing spends 40% of their marketing budget on content marketing. But, unlike B2C companies targeting general consumers who gravitate to entertaining and attractive content, B2B content marketing is a different ball game. It’s also more than scouring a list of keywords to write occasional blogs or running paid ads on social media once a month. You need to precisely understand your target audience to develop a solid B2B content marketing strategy that yields results. In th...

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23Sep By Ovi NegreanNo Comments

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How to Repurpose Email Content for Social Media

By Ovi Negrean September 21, 2021 Don’t do the same work twice — supercharge your social media strategy with your email content, while also growing your list in the process. When creating daily content, regularly coming up with new ideas and implementing them on every marketing channel can become hard at times.  But there’s good news: most people prefer to hear from you on one channel only. That means you can repurpose content, and get a big bang for your content buck.   Let’s take email and social media for example. If you’re an advocate who has build a large email list, you may also find yourself considering social media. But does that leave you wondering how much time it’ll take to create new content?  In this blog post, we’ll cover repurposing content: Why yo...

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17Sep By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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How to Use Video in Content Marketing

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Although every business has its unique set of marketing challenges, all those challenges seem to stem from one root cause: the changing behaviors and expectations of today's buyers. Customers want a sense of connection with brands, and most of that now h...

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5Aug By byNo Comments

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Voice Content and Usability – A List Apart

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Article Continues Below Computers have trouble because between spoken and written language, speech is more primordial. To have successful conversations with us, machines must grapple with the messiness of human speech: the disfluencies and pauses, ...

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27Jul By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Content Repurposing – Here’s How to Do It

Content repurposing is like insurance. Call it "marketing insurance," if you want. It's there to pick up the slack on the days or weeks when you just don't have the time to create marketing collateral and other content. Content repurposing is taking a piece of marketing content and turning it into something else—for example, taking an article you published in a trade magazine and turning into a series of blog posts for your company website. Simple, right? Why repurpose content? Two reasons. First, it saves you time because you won't always be scrambling to create content from scratch. Second, repurposing content helps you promote and amplify that piece of content further. It gives your content more mileage because you're using different forms to get it in front of more people. ...

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19Jul By Kaleigh MooreNo Comments

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How to Craft Irresistible Newsletter Content with Examples

By Kaleigh Moore June 24, 2021 Here’s how to create an email newsletter that has subscribers clamoring to sign up. (Plus, 19 newsletter examples for inspiration!) It’s no secret there is money in your email list. But just how much depends on you. According to McKinsey & Company, the average employee spends 13 of their weekly working hours in their inbox. This is both good and bad news. The good news is: Because people are spending so much time in their inboxes, you have an opportunity to make a big impact. The bad news? More emails = dwindling attention spans. You’ll need to get creative to break through the clutter of emails that loiter in your subscribers’ inboxes. We’ll show you how to create an email newsletter that will keep your subscribers intere...

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12Jun By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Content Marketing Metrics to Measure Results

Most marketers seem to be taking it on faith that their work is effective: Only 35% of marketers say they think it's "very important" to know the return on marketing investment (ROMI), according to a survey from HubSpot. But that same survey found that 91% of marketers are confident that their campaigns are influencing revenue. If marketers don't understand the ROI of their marketing efforts, they can't possibly know that those efforts are benefiting the bottom line. That's especially true with content marketing, which is inherently a long-term investment: A single piece of content doesn't necessarily lead directly to an increase in sales, which means there's no simple formula for determining content ROI. But just because measuring content marketing ROI isn't always easy doesn't mean it's...

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8Jun By AmyNo Comments

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#379: Cure Writer’s Block: The Content Structure My Team Swears By

Get ready to tackle the creativity time crunch and discover the little known framework that I use in my business to produce content.  Let’s be honest: social media, podcasts, newsletters, sales pages and everything else you need to run your business can take a ton of time out of an already busy day.  Just when […] The post #379: Cure Writer’s Block: The Content Structure My Team Swears By appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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25May By Lisa BuyerNo Comments

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How “Glocal” Content Marketing Helps International Brands Stay Local

How do today’s major global brands develop a digital presence and compete organically in local markets throughout the world?It’s called glocal.No, that’s not a typo – glocal is a sophisticated combination of global and local influence fueled by modern localization technology and strategic international marketing implementation.With the help of localization technology, global brands can be relevant and attractive on a local level, too. It’s the modern secret to building a global brand’s local staying power.When done right, the glocalization process taps into the power of content localization and SEO. This strategy ensures brands are easy to find and well ranked in local SERPS. Check!FYI Trend: International Brands Earn Local TrustThe [local loyalty] trend isn’t new.Since the inception, larg...

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22May By IpervoxNo Comments

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Creating the best Alexa Skill Content: The secrets for an improved voice experience! Learn from +13K bad reviews | by Ipervox | Apr, 2021

Launching a successful Alexa skill is dependent on an infinite number of variables-from content quality to content delivery network. The no. 1 component for which a user enables a voice app from his Amazon Echo device is the Alexa Skill Content.For a Skill to become successful, apart from technical and code-related factors, the content it delivers has a great impact. Especially in the Alexa Skill Marketplace.You need to pay close attention to the skills that your customers are using over and over again. We have found that the most popular Skills are those created by developers who have focused on meeting a specific customer need and providing useful Alexa Skills. Therefore, they are used by customers regularly, or at least frequently.While focusing on understanding what works best for an A...

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18May By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Improve Your Product Content Strategy

Many companies are struggling to produce high-quality product content and deliver it to customers at the right time. "Today's customers demand more digital content than ever before, and organizations are struggling to keep up," according to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Widen. What's holding brands back from delivering product content that aligns with their customers' needs? Their content strategies—especially their approaches to integrating content tools and processes. Sound familiar? We thought so, too. Companies have been wrestling with these problems for years, and now the challenges are magnified by the drastically increased demand for digital experiences. So we decided to seek out new and relevant data to better understand how to approach today's evolution of these fam...

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2May By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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The Ultimate Content Marketing Funnel Guide

Most of the content we interact with online is intended to make us take an action, such as following a link, upvoting a post, downloading a study, signing up for a trial, etc. However, those who interact with marketing content are not always too eager to respond on a whim; therefore, it's key to treat conversion as a part of a larger customer journey and create our content marketing touchpoints accordingly. To guide the potential customer in the right direction, you need a well-thought-out content marketing funnel in which each piece of content plays its allotted part. Semrush has done a great deal of research to find out how content marketers build their funnels in 2021, what content formats they use, and what challenges they face. Below, you'll find insights from our recent studies and w...

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29Apr By byNo Comments

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Immersive Content Strategy – A List Apart

Beyond the severe toll of the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps no other disruption has transformed user experiences quite like how the tethers to our formerly web-biased era of content have frayed. We’re transitioning to a new world of remote work and digital content. We’re also experimenting with unprecedented content channels that, not too long ago, elicited chuckles at the watercooler, like voice interfaces, digital signage, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Article Continues Below Many factors are responsible. Perhaps it’s because we yearn for immersive spaces that temporarily resurrect the Before Times, or maybe it’s due to the boredom and tedium of our now-cemented stuck-at-home routines. But aural user experiences slinging voice content, and immersive user experiences u...

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26Apr By Erica PerryNo Comments

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3 New Ways Facebook is Helping Brands Manage Their Content and Communities

April 19th, 2021 Marketing Erica Perry According to Facebook‘s recent State of Small Business Report, more than half (55%) of small businesses say they’re using digital tools to communicate with customers. On the heels of this research, the platform announced several new tools and features to help businesses connect with their customers online and grow their communities more efficiently. Building Community For businesse...

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15Mar By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Thought Leadership and Content Marketing

Content marketing is a well-established discipline for generating inbound leads through keyword targeting and other methods. And since you're reading this on MarketingProfs, you probably don't need me to tell you what content marketing does and what it's good for. But what about thought leadership? To some, the term sets off an instant buzzword alarm. Others assume thought leadership and content marketing are the same thing, which isn't the case—although the two can be used together to good effect. In this article, I'd like to provide a little bit of clarity about these two powerful forms of marketing, including how they're alike and how they're different. Content marketing offers value in return for business Content marketing works in large part by creating a transmission ...

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3Mar By Joy HawkinsNo Comments

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Does Optimizing Content for “Near Me” Work for Local SEO? Sterling Sky Blog

Posted Mar 2, 2021 by Joy Hawkins We asked this question at a LocalU Advanced event: “Does adding instances of “near me” terms onto a website increase its ranking for “near me” keywords”.  The vote was very divided with 44% of people saying no and 56% of people saying yes. We have done a ton of testing on optimizing for “near me” terms (ex: “plumber near me”) and have found that adding instances of “near you”, “nearby” and “near me” to the content of a page (including meta tags) does have a positive impact on ranking. Here is an example of a client’s homepage traffic for near me terms after we added some instances of “near me” terms to the page. Here is a ranking tracker for another client of our...

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1Mar By Michael StelznerNo Comments

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Content Marketing With Instagram: How to Build Demand : Social Media Examiner

Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 12th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 5,200+ marketers, you'll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free report and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.

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27Feb By Anisha TanveerNo Comments

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6 Content Marketing KPIs To Track Your Online Brand Presence

Content marketing ROI has been a rising trend for the past few years and 2020 was no exception. What does that mean for your business in 2021? (more…)

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26Feb By Caroline ForseyNo Comments

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What Is Content Writing? Plus 12 Tips to Take Your Content to the Next Level

When you search for "content writers" on LinkedIn, you're bound to come across an incredibly diverse range of professionals. (more…)

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22Feb By by ,No Comments

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Designing Inclusive Content Models – A List Apart

In the 1920s, Robert Moses designed a system of parkways surrounding New York City. His designs, which included overpasses too low for public buses, have become an often-cited example of exclusionary design and are argued by biographer Robert A. Caro to represent a purposeful barrier between the city’s Black and Puerto Rican residents and nearby beaches.  Article Continues Below Regardless of the details of Moses’s parkway project, it’s a particularly memorable reminder of the political power of design and the ways that choices can exclude various groups based on abilities and resources. The growing interest in inclusive design highlights questions of who can participate, and in relation to the web, this has often meant a focus on accessibility and user experience, as well as on ...

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18Feb By Roger MonttiNo Comments

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Wix vs WordPress? Mueller Says Solve Content Issues

Someone tweeted their intention to build a Wix site to test how well it ranks for local search compared to WordPress. John Mueller responded with a series of helpful suggestions, emphasizing that platforms that take care of the technical are ideal for small business owners.Wix Versus WordPressThe initial tweet was about creating a test between Wix and WordPress.Rob May (@robinlmay) tweeted:“Going to get and build a @Wix site and see if I can get it ranking in some local city (here) for #SEO related services (as a test against WordPress) – just to see if it will work. Will take all appropriate steps/measures for best practices. Huh. Wonder how that will go?”Tests Can Be MisleadingOne of the things about SEO tests is that they are subject to interpretation. In other words, the meaning of the...

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11Jan By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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How to Build a Content Marketing Funnel to Drive Sales

Every marketer should live by the funnel. After all, why are we producing content? To generate leads, drive sales, and build authority. But those things will happen only if the marketing funnel is fleshed out into a workflow that plans every step the customer will take, from discovering content to converting. The problem is that 68% of companies don't measure sales funnels, according to Salesforce. But businesses require clear and optimized funnels for content marketing to perform and drive the bottom line. That's what I'm going to cover in this article: proven steps for driving sales and leads with an effective content marketing funnel. 1. Start at the top and work your way down Many marketers make the mistake of starting and finishing at the top. They produce top-of-the-f...

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8Jan By Ann SmartyNo Comments

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How to Optimize Your Content Strategy for Lead Generation

Digital marketing has evolved far beyond publishing regular blog posts and broadcasting them through brand-owned channels. It used to work pretty well about a decade ago but it will hardly produce just about any results these days. We live in the era of an always multitasking, ever-moving consumer who is hard to impress. These days most brands were forced to up their content creation game and start producing in-depth and interactive content, investing into video creation and designing original graphics. However it is not enough. While content quality is fundamental, your content strategy will fail to have any impact on your company’s bottom line unless it is optimized for capturing and nurturing leads. Step 1: Optimize for the Customers’ Journeys, not Just Keywords Every con...

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30Dec By AmyNo Comments

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How to Use Free Content to Sell Your Course

If you build it, they will come, right? Well, if you’re constructing a baseball diamond in the middle of a cornfield to attract a legendary baseball player, then sure. When it comes to digital course creation, the work doesn’t stop after you’ve finished shooting your videos and uploading your course materials. You have to get […] The post How to Use Free Content to Sell Your Course appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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30Dec By SMW StaffNo Comments

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Watch New Content Series “The Business of Empathy” Exclusively for SMW+

October 27th, 2020 Marketing SMW Staff Since we launched SMW+ in August we’ve dropped 20+ original shows on the platform, hosted by some of the smartest people in the industry spanning brands, platforms, and agencies. Today, we’re excited to announce a new series in partnership with Facebook and The 404 titled, “The Business of Empathy.” Across three different conversations, the series, hosted by Michael Ventura, author ...

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28Dec By Eva GutierrezNo Comments

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Answer These 3 Questions to Figure Out What Content To Put In Your Newsletter

So you’ve read all the hype around newsletters, huh? It’s true, newsletters have made their comeback just like 90’s fashion (who knew bell bottoms would ever become a thing again…). Newsletters are sprouting up like weeds and it feels like the chance to get in on the hype is limited. ⏳ But that doesn’t mean you should rush to put together a newsletter. Just like any marketing strategy, you don’t want to duct tape it together and hope it works out. You want to strategize how to curate a newsletter that shifts subscribers into customers. What’s the most useful content you can give subscribers that will ALSO bring them towards your offer? Let’s figure it out by answering 3 questions. #1: What challenges does your customer avatar have around the problem(s) your product(s)...

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28Dec By AmyNo Comments

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A Curated Collection of Course Creation Content

You’ve got a digital course inside of you. You can feel it in your bones. There’s just one little problem. You have no clue where to start. A quick Google search will return thousands of articles and resources, but sifting through all of that content is a huge pain. Not to mention all of the […] The post A Curated Collection of Course Creation Content appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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The Untapped Power of Vulnerability & Transparency in Content Strategy – A List Apart

In marketing, transparency and vulnerability are unjustly stigmatized. The words conjure illusions of being frightened, imperfect, and powerless. And for companies that shove carefully curated personas in front of users, little is more terrifying than losing control of how people perceive the brand. Article Continues Below Let’s shatter this illusioned stigma. Authentic vulnerability and transparency are strengths masquerading as weaknesses. And companies too scared to embrace both traits in their content forfeit bona fide user-brand connections for often shallow, misleading engagement tactics that create fleeting relationships. Transparency and vulnerability are closely entwined concepts, but each one engages users in a unique way. Transparency is how much information you sha...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Usability Testing for Voice Content – A List Apart

It’s an important time to be in voice design. Many of us are turning to voice assistants in these times, whether for comfort, recreation, or staying informed. As the interest in interfaces driven by voice continues to reach new heights around the world, so too will users’ expectations and the best practices that guide their design. Article Continues Below Voice interfaces (also known as voice user interfaces or VUIs) have been reinventing how we approach, evaluate, and interact with user interfaces. The impact of conscious efforts to reduce close contact between people will continue to increase users’ expectations for the availability of a voice component on all devices, whether that entails a microphone icon indicating voice-enabled search or a full-fledged voice assistant waiti...

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26Dec By AmyNo Comments

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#338: Content Made Easy: How To Organize Your Launch Content, Make $$$, and Never Run Out – Amy Porterfield

Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode: #353: Your Confidence Success Path for Showing Up Online with Ivirlei Brookes Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode:#353: Your Confidence Success Path for Showing Up Online with Ivirlei Brookes

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25Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Healthcare Content Marketing Stats | Study

Most healthcare marketing executives say the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their content marketing strategy but it has not changed their content marketing budget, according to recent research from True North Custom. The report was based on data from a survey conducted in 2020 among more than 200 executives who manage marketing and communications functions for healthcare organizations (e.g., hospitals, medical clinics, and specialty care centers). Two-thirds of healthcare marketing executives say their content has become more educational because of COVID-19, and 45% say it has become more focused on driving to high-value services. Some 59% of healthcare marketing executives say COVID-19 has not affected their content marketing budget, 21% say it has led to a decrease, and ...

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24Dec By Michael StelznerNo Comments

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TikTok Content Marketing: How to Grow Your Business With TikTok : Social Media Examiner

Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 12th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 5,200+ marketers, you'll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free report and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.

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24Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Content Marketing Guidelines: 10 Must-Have Elements

Everything has changed because of the pandemic, including traditional marketing tactics. Industry events have been canceled. Your customers are working exclusively from home, and they're busier than ever, adjusting to videoconferencing and juggling additional responsibilities. How do you reach your target audience where they are? Quality content, of course. More than half of marketers are increasing their social media (55%) and thought leadership (53%) efforts right now, according to LinkedIn. And rightfully so: B2B and B2C customers are hungrier for your content than ever before. So, are you ready to get on the content bandwagon? Picture this: You and your marketing team create a list of content topics. You line up internal subject-matter experts (SMEs) for an interview. Y...

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24Dec By Sean TinneyNo Comments

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Use Email Marketing to Create and Drive Traffic to Your Content

By Sean Tinney November 19, 2020 Creating and delivering content that your audience raves about is no easy feat. Here’s how photographer Jared Polin uses video content to build his audience and drives traffic with email. Jared Polin went from unknown Youtuber to one of the biggest names in photography. His journey began in 2008, when Polin filmed a video of himself talking about his camera gear. It was awkward. He was visibly uncomfortable in front of the camera. But he kept going. He created another video. And another, and another. In 2010, he launched his website Fro Knows Photo to show off his photography expertise and land some freelance jobs. His following back then was non-existent, but he kept creating. Slowly, people began to notice. They asked questio...

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24Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Content and Topic: How to Rank on Search Engines

When setting out to write, most people have a topic in mind. But you need to organize your thoughts and do more research before you press "publish." For content marketers, a common goal is to rank for certain keywords in search engines. Promoting on social media and via email can give content a great boost, but if you want long-lasting visibility, ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs) is a must. To do that, you need the best, most relevant on-site B2B content. And that's not always easy to come by. Here are some tips on how to create content that ranks. Investigate your topic Creating great content is a balance of trusting your instincts and confirming them with research. Before committing to a certain route for your content, have a plan for what you want to sa...

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24Dec By Erica PerryNo Comments

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How Instagram is Expanding its Branded Content Offerings

December 2nd, 2020 Marketing Erica Perry Instagram recently unveiled a new redesign of its main home screen on the app in an effort to combat the rise of TikTok. Specifically, the Reels icon is now front and center in the app and directs users to a dedicated page of curated content organized by people they follow and your previous engagement patterns and interests. Now, the platform is taking additional steps to ensure c...

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24Dec By Eva GutierrezNo Comments

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How To Train Your Content Creators To Create Viral Content

Yes, it’s possible to train your content creators to create viral content. If you’re creating content right now, but it’s not getting the numbers you were looking for… we know exactly what’s going wrong. You don’t know your customer avatar well enoughYou’re not creating content for the right parts of the Customer Value JourneyYou don’t know the difference between a viral article and an average article With virality on her resume, DigitalMarketer’s General Manager Erin MacPherson knows what it takes to get traffic and conversions. Even though it might seem like you’d start with the content, we’re actually going to take it a step back first. First, we need to know who your content is for. After that, we’ll make sure you’re creating the right content based on where your custome...

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24Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments

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Outsourcing Product Marketing Content: A Guide

First of all, yes, product marketing content can be outsourced effectively. Many freelance contractors are capable of understanding your complex product and creating essential content—from whitepapers to sales enablement collateral—to help drive revenue. Wait, you say, Why not just hire another product marketer? Two reasons: outsourcing is cheaper, and it can produce more content. Most product marketers get pulled into so many meetings and deliverables with engineering and product management that writing falls by the wayside. That frustrates demand generation and sales teams that are waiting for content. A good product marketing contractor can focus on your content needs, and create spectacular content, without the interruptions that plague in-house product marketers. You just have to man...

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24Dec By Priyanka DesaiNo Comments

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6 Must-use Social Media Content Types For B2B Lead Generation

B2B lead generation is easy, said no one ever. (more…)

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23Dec By AmyNo Comments

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#344: 5-Steps For Creating & Repurposing Your Content Calendar Like A Boss – Amy Porterfield

Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode: #353: Your Confidence Success Path for Showing Up Online with Ivirlei Brookes Listen To My Latest Podcast Episode:#353: Your Confidence Success Path for Showing Up Online with Ivirlei Brookes

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20Dec By Kristian BannisterNo Comments

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Carrie Hill on Creating Kick-ass Local Content

There’s no doubt content is key to both ranking high in local search and generating more leads, but there’s a lot of mixed messages about the best ways to approach this. And often what ranks and what converts can be very different beasts. Luckily, we’ve enlisted Sterling Sky’s content creating champion Carrie Hill to get answers to questions such as should local businesses be blogging regularly? What kind of content coverts? And what do you do if great content isn’t ranking? On this episode, Carrie reveals her secrets to make the words (and leads!) flow. Listen to learn: How to do effective content research How to ensure content doesn’t just rank, but also converts The mistakes to avoid when creating content The methods Carrie uses to make writing much easier Listen to the episode Subsc...

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20Dec By PhilNo Comments

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When Can Google Maps / GMB Content Cause Google Ads Disapprovals?

Like my post? Please share! Any restricted terms that find their way into your website’s source code can cause Google to disapprove your Google Ads (AdWords) ad – even if you didn’t personally add that content to your site.  That’s the short answer. “Banned” terms that show up on your Google My Business page (like in your description) or on Google Maps (in the form of Google reviews) won’t prompt Google to pull your ads, as long as that content stays on your GMB page(s) or in your reviews.  You run into trouble only if a person or piece of software puts even one of those restricted terms onto your site.   By the way, I find it tiresome to call them “restricted terms” or “disallowed content” or whatever constitutes Google’s huge no-fly list of search terms in AdWords.  So from now on I’ll j...

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