Team Blogging Mistakes Blocking Your Path to SuccessBlogging has many benefits especially when the responsibilities are distributed among different people in the company. Regardless of the kind of publication you are working on, your team members or location, team blogging enables you to showcase different expertise and perspectives, develop more content and cover many topics. When blogging as a team, you can generate many leads, nurture them, convert into customers and improve your sales.
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Build an Audience with Smart Content Marketing TechniquesContent marketing is a way to develop and share content to appeal to prospects, convert them into customers, and turn these customers into recurrent buyers. You educate people so they will understand and trust you. However, this is not going to work if you cannot get their attention. Your content needs readers in order for it to thrive and for your business to survive.
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Humanize Your Brand With Personas That "Speak" To BuyersMarketing of brands and company products today has become tricky. A few years back all you needed was to construct an eye-catching media commercial and air it on television or radio and you are good to go, sales increases. This is however not the case today since customers are changing the avenues that they trust. Most of them depend on the experience of others to confirm the quality and goodness of brands. Word of mouth is key when it comes to attracting new customers. It is therefore important that marketers should look for methods of using others to spread their products qualities if they want to sell.
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5 Keys For Captivating Content Without BloggingSuccessful inbound marketing is determined by the creation of captivating content. Make sure that your site’s content is high quality, educative and entertaining.  The content should be in line with your buyer’s persona. It should also be in accordance to the stages of the sales cycle. Content marketing should be used to convert leads into sales. It gives you an opportunity to engage the buyers further along the funnel with the help of product centered information.
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Beginners Guide to High Quality ContentWhen it comes to inbound marketing the first requirement is producing quality and relevant content for your readers. At some point of their career a marketer is expected to develop high quality content for an industry that they are not familiar with. Unlike in the past, you cannot get away with writing shallow content.
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Types of Content to Attract Customers to Your BusinessOne of the most important things you should know if you want to attract a lot of customers is that you should make sure that your content clearly reflects how you are aware of your customers’ needs. You should also be able to consider your customers’ challenges which they undergo as a result of buying your products. The content you provide to your community will directly translate to having more customers.
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Top 6 Ways to Get Your Boss to Care About Content MarketingPitching an idea to a client or your manager is not an easy task for everyone. If you are going to pitch any content marketing idea to your boss or client, you must do it right otherwise you may not have another chance. Everything in business revolves around using your persuasion skills to influence decisions of potential clients which = money.
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4 Reasons Online Content Marketers Should Not Ignore LinkedInLinkedIn is the type of social networking platform that can reap benefits again and again for companies seeking to enhance or expand their online marketing presence and reach.  The top companies that have mastered an online presence have gone beyond simply establishing websites, news feeds and fan pages.  Top online content marketers understand that platforms such as LinkedIn offer an interactive medium for engaging an online audience with status updates, links, images and direct messages.

Mastering the marketing potential of LinkedIn goes far beyond simply completing a personal profile.  A professional profile can serve as a major opportunity to extend a brand’s presence by reaching and attracting new customers. With LinkedIn, content marketers can promote brands both effectively and almost effortlessly.
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Compiling Good Blog ContentIf you have a blog, the best way to keep your readers and guests informed and entertained is by creating new content. Updating your blog content regularly with new interesting topics will increase traffic to your blog and when done correctly even improve the blog ranking on organic search engines. The process of gathering and sorting informative and exciting content from seemingly endless web content to match your audience and present it in an organized, thoughtful manner around the theme of your blog is what is called content curation. Just like anything, there is the right and wrong way of curating your blog content.
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Content Marketing StrategyHaving a viable content marketing strategy is vital to online survival. Content keeps a business connected to its target market. Online content marketing helps in branding and generates more leads and sales. Besides on-page optimization, companies are now spending a bulk of their marketing budget on content marketing to build more awareness, create retention and generate more leads. Content strategies are usually engineered before social media strategies.
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