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Turkey and Green Beans Gone Viral (and a Virtual Visit to a Museum) [The Weekly Wrap]

It’s turkey and green bean casserole time in the United States. We talk turkey hotline (phone and AI versions), eat our veggies (a good-for-you lesson), and take a break from food with an enticing stay-at-home museum experience.
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Lackluster Blog? How This Tech Company Turned Theirs Into a Lead-Generation Engine

What do you call a blog with 70,000 monthly visitors that accounts for 50 product trials a month? A lot of wasted potential. This is a story about how one company changed that by building a content engine instead of only managing a blog.
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Manufacturing Content Marketers Shift Gears in a COVID-19 World [New Research]

In today’s turbulent times, manufacturing content marketers have done the big things to adapt in a COVID-19 world. Learn from CMI’s latest research what they’re doing differently, what’s kept pace, and what’s growing as you wrap up 2020 and prepare for 2021.
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How to Make the Google Algorithm Work for You

You don’t need to panic when Google messes around with its algorithm. Follow these approaches that bring deeper insights to help you create delightful content experiences that attract audiences.
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How to Use Live Chat Data to Drive New Content Marketing Ideas

Live chat shouldn’t stay in the domain of customer service teams. You can use it to drive new, relevant content ideas and make your content marketing more effective. Let’s look at five opportunities.
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Personalized Palettes, a Content Exercise, and The Witches Lesson

Give your audience an interactive quiz for personalized content (a la Sherwin-Williams). Decide how to walk, run, jog, or sprint (thanks to Ubiquity Labs’ content marketing framework). Think through your content (unlike Warner Bros.).
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Whip Up a Tantalizing Blog Post With These 9 Ingredients

A winning meal on MasterChef must be so delicious, so tantalizing the judges would want to eat it every day. How can you do that to keep readers consuming your blog posts? Here’s a step-by-step recipe.
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How a Digital-First Content Strategy Can Help Print [Winning Example]

A digital-first content marketing strategy doesn't mean digital only. That lesson comes from TD Ameritrade Institutional and its content agency, Imagination. Learn how they incorporated print into their award-winning strategy.
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What You Need to Know About the Data Party Game

What’s in a name? In the data game, it could be a lot or nothing at all. Robert Rose sets the record straight on audience data origins, why it matters, and what it means for your content marketing future.
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Make Content Integral to Your Lead Generation

Can content marketing help or even drive your brand’s lead-generation and nurturing strategy? It sure can. Let’s see how.
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3 Ideas to Blow Out Your Content Competitors [The Weekly Wrap]

Three things to learn from this week’s examples: Suspenseful storytelling isn’t limited to Halloween. Consider how social media can help your SEO. And you can teach your audience how to do what you do – and still stay in business.
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How to Do Chat Marketing: 6 Experts Reveal Their Secrets [Examples]

Average email open rate in 2020? 21%. Average Facebook Messenger open rate? Almost 80%. And yet, chatbots remain an untapped channel for many content marketers. Here are six examples of big chatbot marketing success.