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3 Content Marketing Trends for 2019

The Proactive Report

Not according to the 65 percent of brands who say that their success with content marketing is a direct result of a documented strategy. A complete content marketing strategy starts with research, not setting goals. Find out what content is currently available. Talk to your SEO and Web team.

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Interview Series: CMO of UL Discusses How PR & Content Marketing Are Evolving in 2018

Onclusive

We started down a path to renew our brand work over two years ago, which has been instrumental in changing the way we go to market by providing information on services we offer to satisfy a set of customer needs vs. telling customers what we do. AirPR: What are best practices in PR & content marketing measurement?

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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? Play to their ego. Guest Post PR 2.0

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11 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Cision

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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Three Steps to Developing a Content Marketing Program

Solo PR Pro

We have heard the drumbeat of the importance of content marketing for years. Long before it was labeled “content marketing,” communications pros were utilizing the tactic in client work. Content Marketing is a valuable tool in the communications arsenal. How does content marketing fit into that plan?

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Here’s Why GDPR is Good News for PR and Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

As a result, it’s become the status quo to interrupt people, trick them into handing over personal information, and then use that data to follow them all over the web with creepy or “personalized” messages. Now the European Union (EU) says marketing must get permission. 4) I’m coming to realize that GDPR really isn’t complicated.

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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.