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Guest Post: How to Sell #Content #Marketing to Your Bosses

Deirdre Breakenridge

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Focus on the content. Set the agenda.

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The 5 Stages of Content Marketing Grief

Sword and the Script

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Don’t mash case studies, white papers, webinars, press releases and blog posts together. Invest in quality content. emphasis mine ].

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4 Teamwork Tips for Content Marketers and Product Managers

Beyond PR

And, as our white paper Expanding Engagement & Inspiring Action with Your Next Product Launch explores, an opportunity to establish your company as a credible industry influencer. There are times when product managers and content marketers don’t see eye to eye. Measurement is mutually beneficial,” stresses Alexa.

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2020 Marketing Budget Planning: Here’s How Marketers Say Spending is Shaping Up

Sword and the Script

I suggest thinking about distributing existing content elsewhere. If you do this as part of an overall content marketing program, then the investment both supports lead generation AND growing your own audience and subscriber list. In my view, email newsletters are the original content marketing.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). When it comes to tracking our work via measurement, key performance indicators (KPIs) or whatever other preferred nomenclature you prefer, things get a little muddy.

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

Sword and the Script

I suspect many of the award winners wouldn’t hold up if their effectiveness was tested and measured. 4) What is your assessment of this trend toward content marketing ? “In Such concepts as newsletters, white papers, informative seminars, and other material intended to be useful are very old.