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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

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Regular readers know I bought into the concept of “ content marketing ” many years ago. It was in effect the coining of a term that characterized a strategy my team and I was already working on across traditional PR, digital marketing and social media. 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions.

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Highlights from the State of Blogging in 2017 Survey

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It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

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5 Proven Ways PR can Develop Client Media References in B2B Organizations

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This where someone with real PR experience can really help because it brings together three programs B2B shops typically already have in place – PR, content marketing and social media – to support a reference program. 1) Soft interviews on your company blog. Then, the references and contacts start to come a lot easier.

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Influence or Popularity? Examining Influencer Marketing

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She has never published a blog post, or an article for a leading association of business communicators , or given a formal presentation. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing. She doesn’t have any Twitter followers.

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Paid Social Media as Surround Sound in B2B Marketing; Off Script No. 39: Betsy Hindman of the Hindman Company

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That led her down a series of paths including content marketing, ecommerce and today, in B2B marketing. BH: When I stepped into the world of content marketing to understand what was happening there, it was in healthcare. She is Betsy Hindman, and she’s my guest for the 39 th edition of the Off Script series.

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Content Marketing: Don’t Make Home Improvements to Rental Property

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It’s almost cliché, except the advice is sage: when it comes to content marketing , don’t make home improvements to a rental property. The site grew rapidly with a reported 4 million users spending more than an hour each day, according to a blog post published to Medium announcing the shutdown.

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How Storytelling Connects Paid, Earned, and Owned Media

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In December 2009, Forrester defined what it called the three new media options for interactive marketers: “paid, earned and owned.” Earned media had traditionally been the responsibility of public relations, while paid and owned media had been part of the marketing mandate. We are all familiar now with the PESO model.