Marketers are forever asking (and being asked) what’s next, what more can we do to drive leads to sales? Conveniently for us right now, there’s a lot. So much in fact, it can be hard to know what strategies and tactics will make the biggest impact and what efforts will offer the biggest return. After reviewing the options, here are the five areas of investment I believe every marketing strategy must include in 2025:
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We’ve swiftly moved from the summer of Taylor Swift and the Swifties into the fall of Taylor Swift. The Era’s Tour and now the movie have raked in billions for the artist. It may feel like Swift is a unique superstar who’s success would be hard to replicate. In reality; however, over the past several years she’s been employing the same fundamental marketing practices that every content marketer should be using to build their brand. She’s doing it exceptionally well and it’s paying off. Here are six lesson’s Taylor Swift’s success offers content marketers:
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It’s unbelievable to say, but it’s been six years since I announced I was launching glee Content Marketing. In that time I have written dozens—maybe hundreds—of content pieces on interesting topics, collaborated with really innovative brands and companies and looked for ways to share brand stories in ways that connect with their audiences and leave a positive impression. Above all, I’m proud that I’ve stayed true to what I set out to do; combine my passion for writing with my interest in technology and ability to think strategically.
When you’re a writer—whether for business or fiction—you think about writing a lot…why you do it, how you do it and what you love about it. So in celebration of glee’s sixth anniversary, I decided to share a collection of 15 of my favorite quotes about writing:
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Does this sound familiar? The year starts off great. Everyone is excited to launch new efforts and share fresh ideas. Content is created and shared. All goes well for five to six months. Then, the summer lull hits. School wraps up. People are on vacation off and on through the next three months. For many business-to-business content creators, the first six months of the year are when the content train runs at high-speed. After that, content marketers struggle to get commitment from subject matter experts to schedule interview meetings or send information at the beginning of the creation process and reviews and approvals take longer at the end of it, bringing the content train to a crawl.
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While navigating the mess that is 2020, the events industry has had to develop an entirely new delivery model. Without warning, an immediate shift to virtual platforms was required in order to preserve many organizations’ key revenue streams and some, their very existence.
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Have you noticed your friends sharing recent purchases or products they love on their social platforms? That’s a marketer’s dream: user generated content. Free advertising.
User generated content is today’s brand advocacy. Officially, user-generated content (UGC) is defined as any form of content, such as images, videos, text and audio, that have been posted by users on online platforms such as social media and wikis. As consumers turn to their online acquaintances for purchasing advice more often, it’s become a critical component in marketers’ content marketing strategies. Think of it as an additional form of your content curation strategy (if you don’t have one of those, read this.)
Here are the answers to the key questions (the who, what, when, where and why) marketers need to employ user generated content effectively in their strategies. Continue reading “User Generated Content: Who, What, When, Where and Why”
Blogs are great things. They give businesses the opportunity to add fresh content to their websites and share their expertise while building thought leadership. But the downside of blogs as anyone who’s ever had to manage one knows all too well, is they can be hard to maintain consistently week in and week out. Yet, a blog’s success relies on doing exactly that.
Unfortunately, many things get in the way of creating a powerful, successful blog including writer’s block, lack of time and lack of buy-in from colleagues. These challenges all limit productivity and value of the blog suffers.
The good news is that you don’t have to flounder. Here’s your guide through the best ways to overcome these challenges. By doing these things you’ll keep your blog current and full of relevant content that is valuable to your readers which in turn drive more traffic to your site, converts leads and positively impacts your bottom line!
So let’s go get it!
Remember film strips? (If you don’t, you’re probably under 21 and can learn more about them here.) But if you were a kid in the 60s-90s, that film strip projector rolling out was exciting. And they did the job well until something better—first VCRs, then DVDs and computers—came along and made them obsolete. Similarly, digital marketing has changed over the past few years and today some strategies that were popular maybe just five years ago aren’t generating results (and in fact, may be doing the exact opposite) now. Continue reading “5 Digital Marketing Strategies To Stop Using Right Now”
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