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How To Explain Content Marketing ROI to Win (or Keep) Buy-In

Persuading your bosses to buy into the power of content marketing by explaining the inner workings and ROI of both content marketing and content strategy is difficult. Here’s a helpful formula to throw a winning pitch.
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How To Get Content Marketing Measurement Wrong: Do It Like a PR Person

Public relations and content marketing do overlap, but they’re not the same. Yet too many content marketers use PR-centered metrics to prove the value of their content. Here are four steps to change that.
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How to Get Content Marketing Wrong? Think Like a PR Person

If you want to be taken seriously as a content marketer, stop acting like a member of the PR team. If you want to show that content marketing is a distinct contributor to business results, stop using only PR metrics. Do this instead.
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Content Definition: What It Means in Content Marketing

How do you define content? Does everyone on your team agree with your definition? Do the people on other teams define content the same way? And, though definitions exist, why does this question keep coming up?
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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

Discover how a documentarian-turned-marketer discovered content distribution, syndication, and SEO by accident. Learn the difference between content syndication, licensing, and discovery engines, and the reasons you want to use each.
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A Take on 3 Confusing Terms: Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Content Marketing Strategy

How does content marketing relate to content strategy? And how does content marketing strategy fit in? Decipher the three terms to better understand the importance and relevance of each one.
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How to Explain Content Marketing to Anyone

What is content marketing? The perpetual question deserves another explanation. If you’re new to the practice, want a new way to look at what you’re doing, or just want help in explaining it to your relatives, this post is for you.
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What Is the Difference Between Content and Content Marketing?

Stop creating content. Start creating a content brand. Discover why just because content is everywhere, it isn’t enough. Learn why content marketing success really requires owning the destination for all your audience-building content.
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9 Definitions: How Content Marketing Works Within Marketing

Here’s the go-to explainer for how content marketing relates to nine other marketing practices: content strategy, marketing content, product marketing, branded content, inbound marketing, native advertising, PR, social media, and SEO.
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What Is the Difference Between Content and Content Marketing?

Stop creating content. Start creating a content brand. Discover why just because content is everywhere, it isn’t enough. Learn why content marketing success really requires owning the destination for all your audience-building content.
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Why Inbound Marketing Should Take a Back Seat to Current Customers

If you focus all your efforts on inbound marketing – attracting new customers – as your primary marketing strategy, you are missing a large opportunity. What about your current customers? Let’s discuss.
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A Take on 3 Confusing Terms: Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Content Marketing Strategy

Do you know the differences among “content marketing,” “content strategy,” and “content marketing strategy”? Stop using the terms interchangeably. Let’s explain the differences and similarities, and share why you need to care.