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Jan 13

10 Content Marketing Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make

BusinessInsider shared 10 content marketing mistakes and how to avoid them:

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1. Not knowing your audience: The secret to creating great content is knowing your target audience. For B2B content marketers, that audience typically consists of the buyers and users of your company’s products and services. Your number one priority as a content marketer is to understand who those buyers and users are.

2. Making it hard for people to find your content. Spend all of the time in the world making great content, but if no one can find it, you’re wasting your time.

3. Not creating enough content. It’s really hard to reap the benefits of content marketing if you’re not producing a lot of content.

4. Failing to listen. Take the time to listen to your customers, paying attention to what people are talking about in your industry, and following what your competitors and industry influencers are doing.

5. Not leveraging others. You have to tap into your co-workers and industry influencers for their subject matter expertise.

Read more tips and how to avoid them at BusinessInsider.
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3
Jan 13

8 Content Marketing Trends for B2B

Are you wondering if content marketing can help your business? SocialMediaExaminer shares 8 content marketing trends for B2B.

#1: Producing Enough Content Is Top Challenge: In years past, the biggest challenge for content marketers has been creating engaging content. But this trend changed in 2012 with 64% of marketers saying that producing enough content was their number-one challenge.

#2: Marketers Using Average of 12 Content Marketing Tactics:  Studies show large organizations (with 10,000+ employees) used 18 content marketing tactics on average, while small companies used 11.

#3: Social Media – Most Popular Promotion Tactic: Studies show that 87% of marketers used social media to distribute content – more than they used articles, email newsletters, blogs and other tactics.

#4: LinkedIn – Most Popular Social Media Channel: It turns out that LinkedIn was the most popular social media channel for content distribution.

Read more content marketing trends at socialmediaexaminer.

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25
Oct 12

5 Ways to Create a Likeable Content Marketing Strategy

ConvinceandConvert shares 5 ways to create a likeable content marketing strategy.

It Starts With a Personal Connection: The goals of content strategy carry over to any business that is looking to provide an optimal experience for audience or customers online.

Be Informative: A successful content strategy always brings new insight to users.

Be Entertaining: Good content does not always have to be entertaining, but humans have an innate admiration for content that causes them to cringe, laugh, or cry.

Be Relevant: Understand appropriate, popular, or timely content for your target audience.

Be Consistent: People like patterns. They want to find what they’re looking for, minus surprises.

Be Honest: Tell your audience what you really think, and don’t be afraid to have an opinion or show personality.

Read more details on these tips at ConvinceandConvert.

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16
Oct 12

Five Content Marketing Lessons From the Red Bull Stratos Jump

On Sunday Felix Baumgartner passed the speed of sound as he broke a 52-year-old record for the highest recorded parachute jump.

econsultancy discusses some lessons we can take away from the jump:

Develop a story: Create a hook that will engage an audience.

Capture as much content as possible: RedBull captured as much video footage as possible to assist in further content promotion.

Provide content worth sharing – and introduce your audience to something new: Red Bull went further than simply integrating social buttons into their site. They provided great content which could be shared and used.

Get contact details for further communications: Red Bull has its own dedicated site for the press to use to gain photos, video, and fact sheets.

Spin-out content into the future: One of the mnemonics used within content marketing is COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere.

Read more details on each of these content marketing lessons at econsultancy.

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Oct 12

B2B Content Marketers Prioritize Lead Gen

eMarketer found B2B marketers often turn to content marketing for lead generation and prospect nurture throughout the lengthy sales process.

Findings from BtoB Magazine displayed content marketing objectives commonly pursued by US B2B marketing professionals: Sales and customer acquisition were each cited by 29% of respondents. Customer retention and loyalty were also important content marketing goals for about a quarter (26%) of marketers.

Though engagement as a campaign end goal was only cited by 20% of respondents, as a tactic, it was vital for content marketing success. BtoB Magazine found that more than half (56%) of US B2B marketers used content marketing to foster greater audience engagement—necessary for drawing leads and generating greater brand awareness.

Read more details on this study at emarketer.

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4
Sep 12

4 Facebook Plugins to Drive More Traffic to Your Content

Are you wondering how to make it easy for people to share your site or blog content on Facebook?  Here are 4 Facebook Plugins to drive more traffic to your site:

1. Recommendations Bar: The Recommendations Bar is good for people who have blogs because it can help direct them to other blog posts that people liked on the site.

2. Recommendations Box: This showcases popular articles on your website.

3. Like Button: With ‘like’ you’re sending the activity back to your Facebook personal profile that you like the article you’re reading.

4. The Like Box: Different than ‘like’ button, it allows you to bring our Facebook page.

Read more details on each of these Facebook plugins at socialmediaexaminer.

 

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27
Aug 12

The Facts and Figures about the Power of Visual Content

How Powerful is Visual Content on Social Media?  A recent study of Facebook’s top 10 brand pages reveal the real numbers and facts and figures on the engagement and sharing levels of photos and videos in comparison to text and discovered:

  • Videos are Shared 1,200 percent more than links and and text posts combined
  • Photos are liked 200% more than text updates

To put some perspective on the power of visual content other studies show that Photo and video posts on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn and Google+.

For more insights into the power of visual content below are some more revelations.

View the full infographic and more details at JeffBullas.

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8
Aug 12

When You’re Not Inspired by Your Own Content…

One of the biggest challenges of being Social@Scale is finding the balance between “social” and “scale.”

Given the recent history of enterprise marketing, the default habit is more “scale” than “social” and operational guidelines such as “content calendars” and “KPIs” take over as people lose sight on the value and objective of the activity.

When it comes to Content Marketing, the objective of “create one thought leadership piece per month” tends to morph into “create one piece of content per month” as the metric (it’s easier to track that) and less on the “make sure it really is ‘thought leadership.’”

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If you worry you are falling into that abyss, I cannot recommend highly enough Jason Falls’ introspective piece “If Your Content Doesn’t Excite You, It’s Time To Rethink.”

And he’s 100% right.

Being Social (particularly @Scale) is about inspiring, connecting, and stimulating passion aligned to the interests of your audience.

If you’re not fired up about it, why the heck should they care about it?

Not only is Jason spot on in this regard, but he goes even farther, demonstrating in public where he thinks he’s fallen short and how he thinks he can improve. It’s everything that Social should be. Authentic, honest, and personal.

What does all of this do?

It builds TRUST.

We applaud this commitment to being Social and are confident that this approach and the trust that comes with it are going to be highly profitable for Jason…and all enterprises that commit to the same path.

Jeremy Epstein is the VP/Marketing at Sprinklr . You can follow him on twitter @jer979. 

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6
Aug 12

Blogging Statistics, Facts and Figures

Blogging started as an online journal in the 1990′s where people shared their interests, hobbies and thoughts online.  It has now evolved into major publishing businesses such as Huffington Post that was sold recently for over $300 million.  The infographic below shows statistics, facts, and figures on blogging in 2012.

View the full infographic and more details on blogging in 2012 at jeffbullas.

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