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M&A as a Shortcut to Content Marketing Results

Sword and the Script

Content marketing is about the audience. The same dynamic applies to content marketing too. >>> Looking for a consulting partner with the content chops to build a sound strategy and execute? The Content Marketing Shortcut: M&A There is a short cut: buy the audience through an M&A transaction.

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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Here’s another one: In 2013, the trade publication Bulldog Reporter was about to shutter after 30 years of covering PR news. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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Taking a Newsroom Approach to Content Marketing

Journalistics

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. For starters, your communications team should start to think like a newsroom.

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How the New York Public Library’s Blog Mobilizes Communities

Cision

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy.

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

Sword and the Script

It’s almost cliché, except the advice is sage: when it comes to content marketing , don’t make home improvements to a rental property. Having once lost some 200+ posts created over a couple years when a site called Posterous shuttered in 2013, I couldn’t agree more. Survey Finds Improving Optimism in Content Marketing.

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116 Content Marketing Insights Worth Tattooing on Your Body

Cision

Interactive content collects a very different kind of data. “A list is the community you have the opportunity and pleasure to serve.” Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” Want more content marketing insights from Ann Handley?

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LinkedIn Pulse: The Next Content Marketing Must-Have?

MaccaPR

Preceding its $90 million acquisition by LinkedIn back in 2013, Pulse was a news-aggregator app that curated your favorite publications and news sources and presented them in a Flipboard-type manner. Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine.