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We’ve all heard LeBron James talk about how he wants to be a tight-end in the NFL. People laugh at that. The youngsters don’t remember Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson played two sports.
You’ve probably heard how paramount blogging is to the success of your marketing. Without it, your SEO will tank, you’ll have nothing to promote in social media, you’ll have no clout with your leads and customers, and you’ll have fewer pages to put those valuable calls-to-action that generate inbound leads. Need I say more?
So why, oh why, does almost every marketer I talk to have a laundry list of excuses for why they can’t consistently blog?
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When it comes to content, sometimes old school can be a good thing (namely, when it comes to old school rap or Throwback Thursday on Instagram). But when it comes to your company’s public relations strategy, being old school isn’t advantageous for your business or your brand.
Ten years ago, people still relied on morning papers for news.
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The most effective ads become a part of our culture. They prompt dialogue and debates, they convey meaningful messages, and they aim to create a visceral response. Unlike sorry, stale ads that parrot back the status quo, influential ads aim to break new ground.
These ads made us laugh, made us cry, and in some cases made us question our conventional wisdom — but above all, they earned our attention in 2014.
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Having a social media profile without a cover photo is like having a brick-and-mortar business without a store sign. Although brands could technically do without either, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Social media cover photos are great for communicating brand values, highlighting a current campaign, or conveying what your company has to offer.
Do you remember your first A/B test on email? I do. (Nerdy, I know.) I felt simultaneously thrilled and terrified because I knew I had to actually use some of what I learned in college stats for my job.
I sat on the cusp of knowing just enough about statistics that it could be dangerous. For instance, I knew that you needed a big enough sample size to run the test on. I knew I needed to run the test long enough to get statistically significant results.
Sponsored articles are one of the new shiny new objects in the content marketing world. This new advertising channel has opened the doors for brands to become part of everyday conversations with consumers on the platforms they trust most for news, education, and entertainment — media outlets.
Everywhere you turn another new publication shows up online. The barrier to entry for anyone to publish anything is just about nonexistent. Lots of folks succumb to the lure of making money with high search engine rankings, and AdSense, AdWords and other ad networks. Although this approach doesn’t make a new publication an overnight hit, it does amp up the noise and confusion on the wild wild web.
There’s no doubt that content marketing can boost your brand awareness and improve public sentiment towards your company and its product offerings. But for you to really make an impact on your business, you need to know whether you’re getting a good bang for your marketing buck — and that means you need to figure out how much you’re affecting the business’ bottom line.
I don’t know about you, but I rarely feel like I’m 22. I do, however, work with a lot of 22-year-olds who are smart, interesting, dynamic, and absurdly high-energy.
While it depresses me they don’t understand my Saved by the Bell references, their ideas and achievements are truly remarkable.
When most people talk about getting quality lead information from forms, they usually talk about one tactic: changing the length of the form. The longer the form, the better quality the leads will be … right?
Truthfully, it’s not always that simple. For most businesses, changing the form length is a great
You know content marketing works, so you’ve been plugging away at blog posts, ebooks, and other valuable, educational content for your potential customers.
And people come — they find your content in search results and in their social media feeds. But they may not fill out a form and become a lead right then and there. It’s not always because they’re not interested in your
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With blogging, success doesn’t happen overnight.
I know, right? How many times have you heard that little nugget of blogging wisdom?
But seriously — a B2B business blog is a huge time investment. It can take a while before you’ve grown it into a truly valuable marketing asset.
