Content Marketing

03/23/2015

Three Reasons Why Content Marketing Works

While other businesses have been pumping resources into their content marketing strategies, you’ve been waiting on the sidelines assessing the situation to see if it’s right for your business. You’re still looking for proof of how content marketing can help your business grow.

Recent research from Ascend2 sheds some light on this important issue; according to the research, 89 percent of companies surveyed claim that content marketing has helped them achieve important objectives like improving customer engagement, increasing lead generation and increasing brand awareness, among others.

Here are three reasons why content marketing works, as evidenced by the findings from the report:

There are a variety of options to utilize: You may find that one particular content marketing vehicle does not work for your intended audience. For instance, you may start out producing video and find out that your audience is more interested in reading in-depth case studies and white papers. With content marketing, you can easily switch vehicles without disrupting your budget or even your overall strategy. Continue reading “Three Reasons Why Content Marketing Works”

03/18/2015

Content Marketing Seminar Returns in April, Will We See You There?

It was right after I had led a series of content marketing seminars during TMC’s ITEXPO last August when a participant came up to me and said, “Do you offer content marketing training in your Connecticut office? I would love to come.” At that exact moment I realized how valuable it would be to host a Content Boost content marketing educational workshop.

Right when we returned from the show, our executive team discussed this inquiry and determined that this attendee could not be alone in wanting extra content marketing education. With that in mind, we set the date for our first-ever Content Marketing Crash Course, a one-day complimentary seminar that provides marketers with the opportunity to learn the latest about content marketing and pick our teams’ brains. Last year’s December event exceeded all expectations with standing-room only attendance, riveting one-on-one discussions and incredible attendee engagement. (My favorite part had to be walking around the room during the “breaks” and just listening in to the engaging, organic conversations taking place.)

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03/13/2015

The Five ‘Ws’ of Content Creation

Strategic writing that drives toward a desired outcome should be every marketer’s goal. Whether you are looking for ideas to build out your editorial calendar or actually writing, taking some extra time to ask yourself a few critical questions can mean the difference between ‘OK’ content and crafting material that actually drives positive business outcomes.

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03/10/2015

Why Google’s Knowledge Vault Should Be On Your Radar

There’s a one buzzword that is gaining an increasing amount of attention in content marketing: accuracy.

Right now, it’s relatively easy for a website loaded with misinformation to rise to the top of Google’s search engine rankings; all it takes is enough people linking to the website in order to inflate it past credible sources. This is a problem for Google, as the company’s goal is to be the most accurate source of knowledge on the Web.

In order to solve this problem, Google is developing a project called Knowledge Vault. For quite some time now, researchers at Google have been collecting vast amounts of information from across the Web and sorting through the data to determine specific truths. For instance, an example one such truth would be “grass is green.” Continue reading “Why Google’s Knowledge Vault Should Be On Your Radar”

02/27/2015

Food For Thought: Why Every Restaurant Should Put Content On The Menu This Weekend

Listen up, restaurant owners: It’s Friday afternoon, which means right now, many of your potential customers are working up an appetite, trying to decide where to head tonight to unwind and grab a bite to eat. Friday is one of the busiest nights of the week for your business, so you’ll want to capitalize on the opportunity and make sure there is a line running out the door in your establishment and not a row of empty seats.

If you want to accomplish this goal of a packed house, don’t wait for customers to come knocking on your door tonight. Restaurant-goers are already browsing their mobile devices, trying to decide whether they want to indulge in Korean, Italian, Mexican, Japanese or American cuisine. If your business does not have a robust digital presence, you could risk losing customers to competitors this evening. Continue reading “Food For Thought: Why Every Restaurant Should Put Content On The Menu This Weekend”

02/26/2015

Leveraging Your Teammates’ Skills to Become a Better Marketer

Earlier this week I got into an interesting conversation with several peers about what role collaboration can and should play in the workplace. We decided that, generally speaking, organizations tend to view bringing employees with different but complementary skill sets together as the most effective way of completing large or complex projects. If every individual piece of a task is assigned to a worker with an appropriate skill set, the finished product will likely reflect professionalism and expertise.

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02/25/2015

The Content Quickie: How to Write Quickly yet Strategically

We’ve all been there before: You look at your schedule and immediately feel overwhelmed by the myriad of impending calls, reminders and meetings, but you need to get an article done by the end of the day in order to make its deadline.

“Today is looking like one of those days,” you think as you ease into your chair, obligatory cup of coffee in hand. So…what do you do?

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02/23/2015

Long-Form vs. Short-Form Content: Which is Better?

There’s been a long-standing debate in the content marketing industry about whether long-form or short-form content is more effective. One side argues that long-form content, which typically runs over 2,000 words in length, makes for a more in-depth and compelling read, while the other side contends that short-form copy, or blogs that are less than 1,000 words, is more easily digestible and sharable. Let’s take a deeper look into the pros and cons of each: Continue reading “Long-Form vs. Short-Form Content: Which is Better?”

01/27/2015

Content Boost Returns for Content Marketing Workshops at ITEXPO 2015

As the Northeast experiences reportedly one of the worst snow storms in the region’s history, our team kicked off Content Boost’s highly-anticipated Content Marketing Workshops today at ITEXPO 2015, taking place now through January 30 in sunny Miami, Florida.

Our team returned for Content Boost’s second annual workshop series after a rousing debut at last year’s event. This year’s series, consisting of three half-hour workshop presentations, offers compelling new market research, fresh new use cases, and a comprehensive four-week plan that attendees can leverage to get their content marketing strategies immediately off the ground post-event.

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