Marketers increasingly recognize that if they want higher ROI, more qualified sales leads, lower cost per acquisition, and increased brand authority, inbound marketing is essential.
Inbound marketing is unlike traditional outbound marketing approaches that have marketers vying for customers’ attention via ads, trade shows, and cold calling. Instead, inbound focuses on having potential leads come to you via company-created content that drives visitors to your website, engages them, and helps your sales team convert them into customers and loyal brand followers.
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Topics:
Blog,
Content,
Marketing,
Social media,
Inbound marketing,
Customer communications,
Audience,
Personas
How to hire an A-team that delivers quantifiable results
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Topics:
Public relations,
Journalist,
Content marketing,
Content,
Marketing,
Metrics,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Audience,
Personas,
PR,
Corporate communications,
SEO
You can have it all, just not at the same time, or so it seems.
Your SEO/AIO expert is amazing but your writing team doesn’t have the time to create all the needed content nor create all the content and landing pages, even with AI help.
Your social media team has created comprehensive promotional campaigns but is falling behind on curating the objective content necessary to please your target audiences.
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Topics:
Public relations,
Content marketing,
DIY,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Customer communications,
Personas,
PR,
SEO
Let’s just cut to the chase: Never put DIY and content marketing in the same sentence.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
DIY,
Social media,
Persona
Build your brand - By effectively using an orchestrated outreach strategy, such as PESOTM (created by Gini Dietrich), across all channels, marketers will extend the reach and increase the overall effectiveness of their efforts, boosting both brand loyalty and revenue.
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Topics:
Journalist,
Press coverage,
Content marketing,
Content,
Marketing,
Metrics,
Social media,
Brand,
Audience,
Corporate communications,
Client relations,
PESO,
Earned media,
Shared media,
Owned media
Cybersecurity companies, whether established or startups, are clamoring for coverage from an increasingly shrinking pool of journalists.
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Topics:
Public relations,
Content marketing,
Content,
Social media,
Cybersecurity
How can marketers get smarter about marketing strategy? The answer is goal setting, and more specifically - SMART goals setting. SMART stands for: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
Metrics,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Messaging,
Account-based marketing,
Planning,
Tactics,
Buyer's journey,
Integrated marketing,
SMART Goals
Nike’s online community built around its Run+ mobile app not only benefits members through personal training tips and challenges, but also helps the company gain an in-depth understanding of its users’ interests and behaviors.
Online fashion brand Asos’ social followers constantly share content and respond to comments.
Spin Sucks’ 80,000+-strong community’s passion for content marketing has made the brand a leader in the PR and communications industry.
Social media plays a critical role in building a community of loyal customers who can positively impact your brand or business.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Social media,
Brand,
Customer communications,
Audience,
Messaging,
Personas,
Client relations,
Shared media,
LinkedIn,
Marketing qualified leads (MQL),
Sales qualified leads (SQL),
Twitter/X,
YouTube,
Facebook,
Reputation
Know the pros and cons before you dive in
Like any endeavor, B2B collaborative marketing has its up and downsides. It’s up to the partner-brand companies to strike a good balance. Before we dive too deeply into B2B collaborative marketing pros and cons, definitions are in order because a few related terms - i.e., co-branding, co-marketing, brand partnership - are often bandied about and may cause confusion.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Marketing,
Social media,
Brand,
Customer communications,
Integrated marketing,
Collaborative marketing