Small Business and Content Marketing: Opportunities Abound but Strategy is Key

Content Marketing Institute’s 2015 “Small Business Marketing Trends-North America” study, sponsored by Copyblogger Media’s Rainmaker platform, focuses on how small business marketers are changing their marketing practices. It also points to some potential opportunities for these small businesses and others to better leverage the value that content marketing can provide. Chief among the keys to content marketing success is having a strategy. Continue reading “Small Business and Content Marketing: Opportunities Abound but Strategy is Key”

B2B Content Marketing Still Going Strong!

Over the past few years, both B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) content marketing has exploded, driven by multiple changes to Google’s algorithms, which now reward unique, original, high-quality content. Marketers everywhere, in businesses large and small, are scrambling not only to find or create high-quality content, but to distribute that content in strategic ways aligned with their brand and designed to generate real, and measurable, results. Continue reading “B2B Content Marketing Still Going Strong!”

Mobile Apps and Content Marketing-A Match Made in Heaven

Nielsen data supports what most already know: apps are in. In fact, their research indicates that, in the U.S., Android and iPhone users 18 and older spend 65 percent more time on apps today than they did just two years ago. How much time? On average, it adds up to 30 hours and 15 minutes a month.

That fact hasn’t missed the attention of CMOs around the country. Continue reading “Mobile Apps and Content Marketing-A Match Made in Heaven”

How Small Businesses Can Get More Out of Their LinkedIn Accounts

For a small business without a big marketing budget, it can be tough to find economical marketing outlets. Paid advertisements on television and radio can get expensive fast, as can hiring a quality web designer and paying for regular content. Fortunately, there are a number of low-cost/no-cost tools that small businesses can leverage to achieve marketing success. Continue reading “How Small Businesses Can Get More Out of Their LinkedIn Accounts”

Why You May Want to Avoid the Visual When Communicating With a B2B Audience

Like virtually every industry, marketing has been transformed dramatically by advances in technology, particularly the increasing ease with which high quality digital media can be produced and distributed relatively cheaply online. Professional audio and video can be incorporated into a website or distributed through email marketing with ease, and this has led to an increase in the use of such media when marketing for a variety of products and services.

Marketers have taken advantage of new technology and digital content techniques by increasing their use of such material to promote their products and services. According to a dual survey of content marketers and the B2B audiences they serve, Continue reading “Why You May Want to Avoid the Visual When Communicating With a B2B Audience”