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4 Brand Awareness Metrics to Track the Impact of Content Marketing

If you want to measure the impact of your content marketing on brand awareness, first think about the type of content. Next, think about the most helpful metrics and tools – start with these four measurement areas
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Strengthen Your SEO Strategy for 2017

Don't just sit back and wait for Google to pass judgment on whether your content belongs on the first page of a SERP. Take these SEO actions to boost its value in the eyes of the bots – and your target audience.
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What to Do When Your Buyers’ Journey Isn’t Linear (Hint: It Never Is)

Your buyers may take a journey, but they rarely follow a straight-line path. So how can you reach them with the right content when they want it and where they’ll find it? Read on.
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6 How-To Strategies for Content Promotion

Publishing your content doesn’t follow Newton’s third law of motion. It turns out you need to spend much more time in promoting your work than on creating it. Here are six step-by-step content promotion strategies to help.
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This Week in Content Marketing: The New Content Business Model Awaits

We do a deep dive into the Pepsi video fiasco and explore the only content business model that matters. Our rants and raves include advertising blinders; then we close the show with an example of the week from Farmer-Stockman. 
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3 Best Practices to Nurture a Content Writer Into an Industry Expert

The nurturing process for content writers has far less to do with helping them become better writers and more to do with teaching them how to learn a new landscape quickly and effectively. Start with these three best practices.
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Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future

How much time does your team spend discovering keywords; planning, personalizing, and automating content; and more?  Imagine if a machine performed the majority of the activities and a marketer’s role was to enhance rather than create.
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Time for B2B Enterprise Marketers to Get Focused on Their Audience vs. Their Brands [New Research]

Too many B2B enterprise marketers create content focused on their brand, not their audience. That’s one of the key findings in our new research report, B2B Enterprise Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America.
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5 Questions to Ask Your Customer Support Team to Help Build Buyer Personas

The customer support team knows why people contact your company. Do you? Reach out to your customer support team members to better understand your audience so you can improve your buyer personas and deliver more relevant content.
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New Way to Build Personas Over Time

The era of agile is here, and personas need to change with the times. This in-depth Q&A shows you how to produce a minimum viable persona, and then build it up as you learn about your audience.
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Screwed Up Priorities? 5 Reasons You Aren’t Working on the Right Content Projects

If you’re not as victorious as you’d like with your content marketing efforts – or you’re struggling to distinguish if you’re even working on the right content or not – it could come down to these five simple prioritization problems.
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Why You Need a Content Funnel For Your Content Product

Following a purchase funnel to shape your content marketing goals sets you up for limited success. Not all content subscribers will become customers. That’s why you need to create and add a content marketing funnel to your program.