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How to Grow Your Content Marketing Program

Contently - Strategy

Growing your content marketing program across the org is just as much about efficiency as it is about expansion. Producing more content without clear goals or objectives isn’t an accomplishment. The personal and commercial banking division started first. The moral here: Do not attempt too much at once.

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Finding The Content Marketing Sweet Spot

Cision

Last year, 90 percent of B2C marketers used content marketing, but only 34 percent felt they were successful. And while 69 percent are creating more content than years past, few are being heard. They can afford to ignore us,” says Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute. Find The Sweet Spot.

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How to Speed Up Your Content Review Process & Master Marketing Compliance

Contently - Strategy

“Investment banking is just glorified content marketing.” In banking, you’re selling your unique insights. A subreddit upended the stock market, and Bitcoin almost got to the moon. This makes sense; compliance approvals for content marketing are a notorious challenge in the industry.

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Does Your Content Marketing Strategy Tell a Data-Driven Story?

Cision

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories. Click to enlarge.

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How to Make an Email Newsletter That Builds Trust and Drives Leads

Contently - Strategy

Nearly five years ago, I wrote about why the email newsletter is the most important part of content marketing. But 2021 begs a different question: How do you develop a great email newsletter? Damn near every marketer uses email as a marketing channel. ” Turns out, a lot of marketers are feeling like Dante.

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How to Go Beyond the Persona and Find Your Muse

Contently - Strategy

How to find your muse. So recently, I returned to the thing that had always helped me get to know my audience: I put on my reporter hat and interviewed a ton of marketers running inspiring content programs—from Christina Westbrook at Dell Perspectives to Kristin Fallon at GE Healthcare to Leslie Nuccio at Bank of the West.

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How to Know if an Influencer Makes Sense for your Brand?

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World Bank forecasts a 5.2 The post How to Know if an Influencer Makes Sense for your Brand? It has been almost a year since COVID-19 struck, forcing countries to shut their borders and lock its people into their homes. What began as a health crisis has now turned into an economic one.

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