Today, consumers spend an average of 79 days conducting online research before buying.
This means SEO, web design, and digital marketing agencies need a content marketing strategy that provides consumers with the answers they’re searching for while simultaneously generating leads to fill their agency’s sales pipeline.
The marketing landscape has changed. Where agencies used to be able to rely on advertising and direct outreach to ...
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No matter what industry you’re in, standing out from your competitors can be difficult. This is especially true in the realm of digital content creation, where you might have hundreds or thousands of competitors. This is the very reason we use the best practice concepts of search engine optimization – to, hopefully – pad the deck in our favor.
It’s an ongoing process. ...
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Congratulations!
You’ve made a very sensible business decision, and you’ve hired a copywriter to create some new content for your company. You’re holding (or, more likely, looking at a digital version of) some professional, compelling content. It does exactly what you need it to.
But could you use it for anything new?
Once you’ve paid for your copy, you own it. So it makes sense to ...
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There is a sea full of different brands in the market but the content marketing research tells that still majority of these brands does not have a documented marketing strategy. Developing a content marketing strategy for your brand is as essential as keeping the quality of your content top-notch. A quality content is worth only when it reaches the targeted audience and can turn your readers into your brand’s prospects. ...
Generating traffic for a blog is not easy. You spend hours of your time and energy coming up with content ideas that quickly become forgotten about and buried deep in the archives. A hot post bringing you visits today can quickly fall off the radar and lose its impact six months from now.
Don’t let this happen.
Remember the 80/20 rule? This applies to ...
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I have yet to do any SEO training with anybody without this question being asked. As with most things SEO, there is not a clear cut answer of “you must update every x days / hours”. This article will help you understand what is needed for your website.
I’ve divided it into two sections, one for blog posts and one for static content, but ...
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You know the feeling you get when you get a new client who needs a content strategy for a niche you know nothing about. Without knowing the details of the industry, including the competitions shortcomings, it can be a challenge to create a successful campaign. It’s important to increase your knowledge and develop a strategy that will succeed – but how do you ...
I don’t care who you are; everyone makes mistakes in writing copy. Even the professionals who have to look at the copy with a jaundiced eye and tweak things. This is why we have drafts: because perfection seldom happens the first time around.
While the list of common copywriting mistakes could probably fill a small eBook, some are more common than most — like ...
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Carrying on with this content evaluation, we move to something a little bit more modern and exciting. I say modern not because videos and animations are new things but because advances in technology have made it easier and more accessible to create and view video and animated content like never before. We are no longer restricted to televisions and corporate movies or shows – anyone can now create video content and ...
Multimedia content, such as infographics and videos, is user-friendly and highly sharable. And, because multimedia content is not text-centric, it can easily be “repurposed” for use in your offsite content and across your social media channels.
But, if created haphazardly, this type of content can harm your brand by appearing sloppy and unfinished. Instead of rushing to compete, or publishing content that doesn’t put your “best foot forward,” take a step back ...
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