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5 Essentials of an Effective Content Marketing Strategy

Polaris

Content marketing is all the rage nowadays. And there’s no shortage of marketing firms touting content marketing as the latest bandwagon you don’t want to miss. Yet, truth be told, content marketing is nothing new. Below are 5 essentials of an effective content marketing strategy.

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Survey Analysis: Competition in B2B Content Marketing Heats Up

Sword and the Script

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. 50% say improved distribution.

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The Relationships You Must Commit to for Content Marketing Success

Cision

With just one statistic, Joe Pulizzi delivered a stark wake-up call to this year’s Content Marketing World attendees. When we asked global enterprise marketers how committed they are to their content marketing approach, 20 percent said they’re fully committed,” said Joe during Day 1’s welcome address.

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The 15 Best PR and Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

Onclusive

Formerly the Intelligent Content Conference, this year’s ContentTECH Summit’s mission is “to show how the effective use of technology and better processes can help your strategic efforts to create, manage, deliver and scale your enterprise content and provide your customers with better digital experiences.” PR Decoded.

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3 Content Marketing Hacks Driven by Listening

Beyond PR

Marketers respond to tweets, we receive feedback from surveys and we watch sales trends to determine whether messaging and targeting is effective. Where these types of insights can have the greatest benefit is in content marketing, where knowing what people care about most can deliver impactful results.

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5 Customer Research Methods No B2B Company Should Skip

Contently - Strategy

Consumers might operate it in a totally different way than you imagined. Customer research involves gathering data about your ideal consumers—who they are, what they want, and how you can help them. Even conglomerates with million-dollar marketing budgets will fail if they disregard audience research. Lack of buy-in.

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Dear CMOs: Mediocre Content Is Hurting Your Brand

Contently - Strategy

I worked for years as a content strategist. I’ve spent the last decade researching and reporting on the content marketing industry. Along the way, I’ve probably consumed more pieces of branded content than anyone else. ” So why hasn’t there been more attention and investment in content?

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