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Here’s How to Fix a Big Mistake in Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

One of the biggest mistakes I see in content marketing is when organizations and businesses do not treat it like a distinct channel. There is no difference or hierarchy among their web pages. This boxes your approach to content marketing into a corner and removes options. What’s wrong with that?

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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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How We Doubled Webinar Leads By Becoming Our Own Biggest Advertiser

Contently - Strategy

The internet was new at the time, and the media and marketing industries expected websites to be a utopia for advertising. “The rest of advertising had been ruined and dammit, we weren’t going to let that happen this time.” The answer really depends on the content. ” If only.

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5 Amazing Facts You Must Know About Facebook Advertising

Cision

As a content marketer, you spend tremendous time and money to create content – be it brand awareness, thought leadership or lead generation pieces. Instead, we must now actively push our content out to our intended audience. Facebook makes money by selling advertising. And then…no one sees it.

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9 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule The Roost In 2016

Cision

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors.

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11 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Cision

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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We Should Measure Content Marketing by Relationships

Sword and the Script

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.