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Content Marketing Blog Posts
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- SEO
- 15th May 2013
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78% of CMO's See Custom Content As The Future Of Marketing (Infographic)
It’s Guest Post Time!The above is just one of the great statistics in our guest Infographic this time from Demand Metric. It’s not just managers who love content either, in fact 70% of customers said they felt closer to a company as a result of content marketing
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- SEO
- 20th May 2013
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Seeing Double – How To Win The Second Screen Revolution
The way marketers catch our attention is changing. Technology has given us multiple devices with which we can communicate and interact with the internet and each other; this in turn has led to the world developing a second screen culture. So how can marketers take advantage of this trend? -
- SEO
- 22nd Nov 2012
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What Might the Future Hold for Content Marketing?
For some, Content Marketing is a gateway to endless possibilities; for others, it’s simply an overused buzzword. It appears that the more attention is given to creating and publishing ‘quality content’, the more the ideology behind it is lost. For now, everybody is looking to build relevance, links and profiles through the written word, but what might the future hold? -
- SEO
- 10th May 2013
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Why Research Should Be A Fundamental Part Of Your Content Strategy
Creating a detailed and thorough content strategy will take time, although making the effort to do this in the first place will bring its own rewards. Within your overall strategy, there will be a number of areas that you will need to address, from how to promote the content once it’s been created, how to measure its success and of course, undertaking the correct level of research before you get started. -
- SEO
- 26th Feb 2013
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A Guide to Data-Driven Content Marketing
The world of Content Marketing has come a long way since the days of old-hat techniques; we’re very much in the age of creating exceptional, unique content that stands out and adds real value to your audience. One of the best ways to achieve this is with data-driven content. Here’s a guide to how it can be done. -
- SEO
- 29th Jan 2013
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Help Promote Your Competitions With Content Marketing
Does ‘Like us for your chance to win a Holiday’, sound familiar? How about, ‘The best comment on this blog post wins a brand new iPad’? Well, it should go without saying that if you’re running some sort of competition, you should consider how this is going to be marketed. -
- SEO
- 20th May 2009
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How The Internet Has Changed Marketing
The Internet has completely changed the way that customers look for and get what they want. It has also changed where they search for and where they buy goods and services. Consequently, those businesses that wish to remain profitable are changing their marketing methods to respond to this transformation in their customer’s buying habits.
Traditional forms of marketing such as newspaper and television advertising, direct mail and cold calling simply do not integrate well with the powerful medium of the Internet and have become less and less effective as a result.
One of the most beneficial ways that the Internet has changed marketing is the dramatic reduction in cost. With direct mail for instance, someone has to be paid to produce the materials that are sent out. This involves designing, writing, editing and printing costs. It’s an expensive way of connecting with a limited number of potential customers and it’s also difficult to measure effectiveness. In comparison, email marketing can be performed by anyone with rudimentary marketing skills and a computer.
In the past, a company in Southampton could not easily market their products/services to potential customers in Australia without great cost. Yet the Internet has no geographic boundaries and whatever marketing is prepared for Hampshire can easily be tailored for Queensland. Internet marketers can target customers anywhere in the world and anyone with a computer can respond to their advertising/marketing and purchase goods or services with the click of a button.
With the vast increase in popularity of the Internet, the speed of marketing has changed. Customers can immediately respond to advertisements that were posted only seconds ago. These adverts can be changed with equal speed in direct response to feedback and the data they receive.
The Internet is driven by content. The more high quality content you can provide a potential customer with, the greater your credibility and the increased chances that they will spend their money with you. Both brick and mortar and web-based businesses need to address this issue and provide potential clients with the information they need to make the decision to buy from you. Again, the production of content is time consuming but not necessarily a costly activity, allowing companies of different scales to compete with each other on an even playing field.
Through social marketing or word of mouth, buzz is instantly created around products and brands. Again, social marketing is a low-cost/high benefit method of marketing online. Traditional marketing cannot possibly compete with the efficacy of Internet marketing for speed, accuracy of qualified leads and low costs.
Traditional marketing has been badly affected by the change to Internet Marketing. One only has to see how the commercial television stations have incurred massive debts associated with rapidly decreasing advertising revenue.
In the past 12 months, the traditional marketing department has all but died. Any company that wants to succeed in the new Internet-changed marketplace must create an integrated approach, a strategy for marketing that fuses together limited traditional methods with the multi-faceted approaches of Internet marketing.
In the past, Internet marketing has been ignored, labeled a ‘fad’, a phase that will eventually pass. Those businesses that do not want to disappear in the global recession can’t afford to share this outdated viewpoint.
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- SEO
- 31st Oct 2012
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How to Find Blogs for Guest Post Purposes
It’s Guest Post Time!George Musson tackles the paradox of writing a guest blog post about guest blog posts. Including a mixture of proactive and reactive methods and also how he came to write this particular post.
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- SEO
- 20th Jan 2012
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Copywriting Tips: Writing for Social Media
With an ever increasing emphasis being placed on social, 2012 is certainly the year to start taking advantage of all the existing and emerging platforms currently available. Whether you’re a business looking after your own social media campaigns, or an agency or consultant working on behalf of a client, it’s certainly an important aspect to get right – and this is where learning simple copywriting tips for social media will pay dividends.
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- SEO
- 23rd Nov 2012
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How To Write A Book, Whitepaper, eBook Or Other Very Long Content
The need for long content has never been greater. Digital book sales have never been higher and there’s more places than ever to promote them. Alongside this the Internet has freed writers from the shackles of tight word counts for print and grown the market for long form investigative journalism, how to articles and detailed whitepapers. If you have ever wanted to write or want to take the leap to longer form content then there has never been a better time than right now. -
- SEO
- 6th Mar 2013
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Content Marketing Masterclass with Andy Betts
It’s Guest Post Time!Over the next 12 questions Andy Betts shares 15 years of digital strategy experience with a wealth of free advice on everything from creating a team, to outreach and content creation.
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