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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.

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State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back

Contently - Strategy

Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. After hundreds of meetings and workshops this year, I feel confident that content marketing is about to take a big leap—thanks to a few key factors.

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How Amazon Uses Brand Storytelling to Inspire Investment

Beyond PR

Instead, it is about storytelling, using a narrative to add value to existing perceptions that can either be backed up by your current product or supported by your prospective plans. That storytelling is one reason why Amazon has been able to survive market crashes and make risky bets. Benefits for storytellers.

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20 of the Coolest Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

PR 20/20

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Experiential storytelling. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. If you’re a marketer, surely you thought ‘yes, please’ to at least two of those categories. Content Marketing World Conference and Expo.

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Authenticity: You Can’t Fake It

ReimaginePR

See, when we sense a discrepancy in the stories we hear or read, we’re really raising a mental red flag about the storyteller, not just about the story being told. It’s like your natural, built-in authenticity meter sounding its alarm. And it’s our human nature to smell a lie from a mile away.

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State of B2B Tech Content Marketing: 5 Trends That’ll Get You Promoted

Contently - Strategy

Great content marketing has the power to do that. Today’s audiences come across so much mediocre content that looks and sounds the same. Lately, innovative marketing teams have been thinking beyond the standard blog post. We love email,” GE’s Chief Storyteller told us. “It

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More Intelligent, More Human: The Future of Marketing Is Both

PR 20/20

Storytelling with the Cognitive Content Hub™. PR 20/20’s team of strategists, technologists, and storytellers employ an in-depth strategic framework that marries human and artificial intelligence to grow businesses through content marketing: The Cognitive Content Hub™. Internal communications and events.