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5 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Cision

Given what we’ve been hearing about Mark Schaefer’s content shock — people consume 10 hours of content per day, which won’t change, but the Internet is expected to grow 600 percent by the year 2020 — your engine needs some high octane content just to be able to stay ahead of the increased supply.

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Empathy Marketing: How to Understand Your Customers, in 10 Steps

Contently - Strategy

The reason for this, it turns out, is super simple: Most marketers don’t ever talk to their prospects and clients. The empathy marketing problem. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2019 B2B Research report, just 42 percent of B2B marketers talk to clients as part of their research.

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5 Tips for Creating High Quality Content

The Proactive Report

91 percent of B2B brands and 86 percent of B2C brands use content as part of their marketing efforts. Source: Content Marketing Institute 2018) That’s a lot of content being dumped online every day. Why are these brands so content focused? They know that content powers the customer journey.

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Crafting the Perfect Buyer Persona: A Step-by-Step Guide

Contently - Strategy

The good news is that if you’re willing to invest the effort, the result will yield a powerful tool in your content toolbox. Marketers base these personas on research and data about their actual consumers and use them to understand their needs, pain points, goals, and behaviors. What Is a Buyer Persona?

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Become a Podcaster Master: Q&A With Kerry O’Shea Gorgone

Cision

A: Audio content is incredibly intimate: you’re whispering into someone’s ear. They’re listening to you while they exercise or drive to work. You can develop a “brand voice” for your writing, but think about how important someone’s speaking voice is: you instantly recognize a person’s voice when they call.

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Influence or Popularity? Examining Influencer Marketing

Sword and the Script

Yet people like her influence consumer spending to the tune of $1.2 Such traditional marketing examples – the influence of young people on consumer sales – demonstrates that influence in the sense of marketing is highly contextual and therefore difficult to universally define. A List of Top Influencers.

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The Pressure for Clicks; Off Script #14: Erik Sherman, Freelance Journalist

Sword and the Script

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. Erik Sherman, freelance journalist and writer.