In our eBook, “5 Ways to Grow Your Content Services with Marketing Automation,” you'll learn how marketing automation can expand the value and impact of your content marketing engagements.
Today, the internet has changed the way buyers discover solutions. More people are meeting and researching vendors online than ever before. Your ideal customers are reading blog posts and articles, checking Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles, and forming opinions based on what you say and share online. Before they call to get to know your company better, they turn to Google for answers and information. If a competing vendor appears smarter, more interesting, or more reliable than you, your buyers will reach out to them first.
These online engagements have changed the rules of buyer/brand communications. So how can you and your company form meaningful relationships with buyers who are getting to know you long before they’ve been introduced?
Just about everyone claims to be doing content marketing, but far fewer organizations have a thought-out plan. According to Content Marketing Institute, only 44% of B2B marketers and 39% of B2C marketers have a documented content strategy.
But as organizations scale content operations, workflows, distribution, and promotion, many are seeking tools to centralize, manage, and improve the process.
That’s where content marketing software comes in. This software can help organize, automate, and visualize your efforts to create original content, as well as curate the content of others.
Over the past 10 years, the Internet has provided unprecedented access to information. Consequently, B2B buyers are constantly online learning about industry trends and innovative solutions to their pain points. Given their busy schedules, buyers have grown accustomed to the convenience of researching and comparing multiple options online, narrowing their choices independently of the vendor and, only then, engaging with sales.
While buyers have always made the final purchase decision, in today’s world, the vendor is not given an opportunity to engage until the buyer is close to a choice. Today, the buyer is in control of their own journey.
Learn how to execute successful content marketing strategies to target your prospects and advance them towards evaluating your software product or solution.
Published By: Falcon Social
Published Date: Oct 30, 2015
Du willst eine Strategie entwickeln, die Engagement fördert und deine Marke in den sozialen Medien aufbaut? Dieses Handbuch unterstützt dich dabei, eine Strategie zu erstellen, die den gesamten Lebenszyklus deiner Inhalte abdeckt – von der Planung und Ideensuche bis hin zur Erfolgsmessung und Optimierung. Lade das Handbuch jetzt herunter.
Published By: Percussion
Published Date: Jun 11, 2013
Building a business case for investing in your web content strategy, whether through technology, additional people, or new processes will require that you justify to your senior executives that the investment will pay dividends. Use the folloing paper, and the four models that are presented here, as a framework to help guide your own investment justification process.
Published By: Skyword
Published Date: Nov 14, 2014
Before you write a single word, you must build a home and create a vision for your content strategy. Skyword’s “Getting Started With Content Marketing” eBook leads by example, showing you exactly how to create identity in writing branded content, with real-life examples from our own launch of The Content Standard. Download it today to get started!
Published By: CrownPeak
Published Date: Jun 30, 2009
This is the second of a three part CrownPeak White Paper exploring Why Content Marketing Is Online Marketing. In this series we present the new idea that Web content marketing is the central and most important tenet of online marketing. Today, the function of online marketing revolves around the Web which, itself, revolves around content. So as we talk about online marketing/marketers and content marketing/marketers consider them and yourself one and the same. Learn more today!
Published By: Skyword
Published Date: Nov 14, 2014
Eventually, you’ll want to move your content strategy past awareness-driven content creation and start converting leads. To show meaningful content ROI, you must have a framework in place to create a diverse array of custom content, and this free eBook will give you the tools and strategy to get started. Download it today!
Published By: Percussion
Published Date: Jun 11, 2013
This paper will explore how WCMS buyers can assess the costs associated to buy, customize and maintain prospective solutions. We will examine the five key areas of cost: User Adoption, Initial Implementation, Upgrades and Ongoing Re-implementation, Maintenance and Support Cost and Application Integration
Published By: EngageSciences
Published Date: Nov 04, 2014
Discover the latest research on the fundamental impact UGC is having on brands, and how it can drive audience acquisition, boost engagement and optimise commerce.
How can you, the modern marketer, create an efficient business process that facilitates content marketing and achieves your specific goals?
The answer: by planning strategic marketing campaigns, establishing streamlined processes, and organizing your team to execute initiatives in a more aligned and productive way. Bridging the content gaps in your organization helps you coordinate the efforts of your teams, but also enables you to create superior customer engagements because you’re presenting a more united front to those who consume your content.
This eBook will show you how to do just that. It will describe how to execute a cohesive plan aligned with your company’s goals, organize your campaigns, and coordinate content distribution across departments and stages of the funnel.
Published By: Percussion
Published Date: Jun 11, 2013
Many leading organizations that have invested substantial time and money building a web content management (WCM) system to run their web site often face a crossroads. Do they continue to support their own custom-built application and extend it to address the needs of the business today, or do they look to purchase a commercial software product to address these requirements. This leads to a delicate stand-off between the web site business owners (usually marketing), the development team (usually in IT) and the Finance office.
Published By: Skyword
Published Date: Nov 14, 2014
What good is content strategy without the creative talent to execute it? Don’t be fooled into thinking pieces will fall into place in content strategy; in order for you to see the results you want, you must invest in high-quality talent to help move your storytelling forward. This eBook will focus on finding the right content creators to help power your content marketing machine. Broken into three sections, you’ll learn how we recruited contributors for The Content Standard, defined two types of writers you can partner with, and how to on-board that team for a shared mission. Learn how to effectively recruit subject matter experts and influencers to drive digital content creation.