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Big Data Is Driving Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Direct Marketer News reports that big data, social media and the proliferation across customer touch points due to the today’s social-mobile consumer is causing huge headaches for businesses across every industry. CMOs Shift Budget To Content Marketing. And I’m not alone.

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Can Content Marketing Accelerate Sales Pipeline?

Marketing Insider Group

If you are not integrating your content marketing strategy into your field marketing, corporate marketing and field sales organizations, then you need to make this change – to create more sales opportunities, increase sale size, and decrease the sale cycle. The Content Marketing, Social Media and Social Selling Recipe.

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An Alternative Approach to Developing Content Marketing Personas

Content Marketing Institute

As we’ve outlined, one of the key elements of the approach of content marketing is that it cannot simply be a replacement for our direct marketing efforts. If we are ever to truly succeed with a content marketing strategy, we must provide for the capability to drive multiple lines of value for the business.

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How to Be a Henry Ford in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing. And content marketing is neither of those things. Successful #contentmarketing integrates changes to make content function as a business model.

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14 Inspiring Quotes Content Marketers Are Thankful They Heard

Content Marketing Institute

As content marketers, we are always reminded of the need to focus on our audience and their needs. In a way, this relationship gives each marketer the privilege of mentoring consumers by the thousands. Document your content marketing mission statement.”. We all are a direct marketer at heart.

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GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade

Content Marketing Institute

The one thing absolutely clear since we at CMI started talking about GDPR more than a year ago is that it is the biggest opportunity in more than a decade for content marketers to become strategic. GDPR is the biggest opportunity in more than a decade for #content marketers to become strategic. Robert_Rose Click To Tweet.

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4 Business Models for Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Our aim is to highlight new, optimal internal business models for content marketing and use the innovations of the moving assembly line as a metaphor for that. This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing.