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Turning Prospects into Customers with a Robust Content Pipeline

Contently - Strategy

For today’s marketers, maintaining a comprehensive content pipeline isn’t just a strategy—it’s a mandate. As the foundation of effective content marketing, it serves the critical role of linking content initiatives to tangible sales outcomes.

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Where and How B2B Marketing Generates Leads it Likes [Study]

Sword and the Script

Email remains a top channel for producing leads in B2B marketing , according to a survey data from a report by Chief Marketer titled Top B2B Lead Gen Trends. That’s no surprise perhaps for veteran marketers, but it’s the mix and integration that often matters most and goes missing. Content marketing: 51%.

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Financial Services Content Report: Industry Benchmarks & 5 Keys to Success

Contently - Strategy

There’s a common misconception that companies in conservative fields like finance, insurance, and healthcare have a harder time creating content. Sure, marketers in these industries deal with more regulations and bureaucracy than someone who works for Red Bull. Brands spend large sums of money on content marketing.

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Social Sharing Fills Different Needs than Search; Unscripted Marketing

Sword and the Script

Sometimes contrast is better than comparison because it advances our understanding of marketing and communication channels. We search for content that is useful. We share content that is interesting or entertaining. By contrast, we share content on social media when it’s convenient for us, says to Steve Plunkett.

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The Rise of Multimedia Content

ISEBOX

Not news: Marketers have moved beyond the written word and blog post in our campaigns. Text was once sufficient to reach your target audience by appealing to their needs and interests, but they’ve become more sophisticated in filtering marketing messages. Need proof that multimedia is on the rise in content marketing?

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An Eclectic but Intriguing Mix of 32 Statistics that Summarize Public Relations and Marketing in 2019

Sword and the Script

I review a lot of marketing studies and surveys – and write about the one I think will be helpful for readers. It’s something of a readout on the year in PR and marketing. Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000.

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Media Monitoring and The Information Iceberg

Cision

At his recent “ How to Monitor Anything ” webinar with the Public Relations Society of America, Cision Canada’s content marketing and social media manager James Rubec showed brands how they can dive deeper using real-time media monitoring. Determine Impact from Share of Voice Comparisons.

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