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3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]

Sword and the Script

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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Shopping for Content Marketing in the Discount Store [UML]

Sword and the Script

There may well be a disconnect between strategy and execution in B2B marketing. While businesses usually don’t think twice about investing in research, personas and messaging platforms, when it comes to execution, someone is usually counting pennies. It’s been a trend in content marketing too. But it is not.

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Change Agent Spotlight: Content Marketing Institute Leader Gives Inside Look at Model Inbound Approach

PR 20/20

In this spotlight, we’ve featured Cathy McPhillips ( @cmcphillips ), Vice President of Marketing at Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ). I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing. A: Our biggest challenge is that we’re really a small business trying to do big things.

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Designing Deliberate Questions, Content and Customer Experiences [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s something similar at play in those B2B organizations facing challenges in content marketing. Certainly, the most successful content marketing is very deliberate. 1) Random Acts of Content. 1) Random Acts of Content. Why does content marketing fail? What is Native Advertising? –

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Qualify Hard; Close Easy: Leads in Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

Relevant content of high quality, that provides the answer for which people are searching, like the sort Mr. Robert’s creates for his blog. As a small business owner, Mr. Roberts told me he’s tried local newspaper ads and local television ads to drive leads to his business – but nothing works like the internet.

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Top 100 Sites for Marketers

Cision

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Advertising Age Online. Mobile Marketer.

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Traditional Link Building Approaches that Work in 2024 with Aaron Anderson

Buzzstream

It’s generally OK to pitch to sites that accept guest posts or contributors, but avoid sites that advertise “write for us” all over the site (e.g., What do you think about content relevancy in link building? Yeah, I find the mismatch greatest for B2B industries. How do you feel about sites that advertise “write for us”?

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