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According to FlowApp, more than 50 percent of marketers had planned to increase the number of webinars they created in 2020—it was the perfect year for it!

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Topics: Content, Video, Content Strategy

In a complex industry centered around information and data, it is no wonder that enterprise software marketers find results in content marketing. When buyers are making decisions about solutions that may need to scale to fit the needs of thousands of employees, often in dozens of locations, the decision-making process is methodical and relies on detailed information and trust.

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Topics: Content, Content Marketing, Enterprise Software

As 2020 closed out what became a very unusual year in business, marketing and life in general, Pan Communications asked a number of CMOs and marketing leaders to weigh in one their predictions for 2021.

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Topics: Content, Strategy, Analytics

Business blogs are among the three primary forms of media used in the content marketing strategies today, according to HubSpot, with both B2B and B2C brands relying on storytelling to grow awareness, increase website traffic and SEO performance, and drive lead generation.

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Topics: Business Blog, Content, Writing

When Sagefrog Marketing surveyed B2B marketers late last year about their 2021 plans, they found many things remained much the same—most have a formal marketing plan, the majority use a combination of in-house and out-sourced resources, and the most common tactics remained similar to the past. But they also saw the impacts of 2020’s economic upheaval in priorities.

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Topics: Website, Content, Strategy

In the game of Battleship, the largest ship on the board is the aircraft carrier, and taking it out requires five direct hits. But some of the smaller ships can only sustain a couple of hits before they no longer stay afloat.

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Topics: Lead Nurturing, Inbound Marketing, Content, Personas, Sales-Marketing Alignment

I recently shared a list of 14 different types of content to create for your B2B website as just the beginning of a checklist to spark inspiration for an integrated content marketing strategy. Today, I’m going to offer up 15 more ideas, this time focusing on other channels for distributing content, from social media and email to third-party publication and your own sales team.

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Topics: Content, Strategy, Integrated Marketing & PR

At the risk of showing my age, today’s topic takes me back to middle school and a song any guy that age would never forget—a parody by Weird Al Yankovic that turned a Michael Jackson great from “Beat It” into “Eat It.”

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Topics: SEO, Content

Content marketing is a huge umbrella term, but many of the simple tips included in this infographic from SEO National can be applied to nearly every aspect, whether you are creating social media content for a B2C business or developing in-depth whitepapers and bylined articles to build industry authority and leadership in a B2B field.

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Topics: Content

The importance of high-quality website content is hard to underestimate.

As was noted in the latest survey report on website strategy released by JONES and our partner HubSpot:

“In the end, (a website’s) goal must be to provide users with the information they want, when and where they need it.”

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Topics: SEO, Website, Content, Audits, Content Creation