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As a marketing consultant focused on media and entertainment brands and products, I run across and save a lot of stories that impact that sphere.
Rebootonline: What's the Real Difference Between Digital PR vs Traditional PR?
PR has evolved drastically over the last few years, paving the way for SEOs and creative PR experts to merge; establishing the newly found online marketing strategy known as digital PR.
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The Importance of Chatbots for Your Marketing Strategy
Nimble Blog--An overview of using chatbots to increase sales, provide personalized content, communicating with web traffic, conducting research, and more.
February 20, 2020
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Your Actionable Checklist to Building up Your YouTube Channel
V3B: Marketing and Social Media Agency--Brands have made Youtube a primary focus for their advertising and even created entire business models around it.Here are some actionable tips to build your Youtube channel.
February 19, 2020
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The Myths and Realities of PPC and SEO Working Together.
On the Corner of Charles Ave--Does PPC affect SEO? No. And yes... sort of. PPC does not directly affect your Google organic ranking but may indirectly help your SEO efforts. Here's how.
February 19, 2020
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Why the podcast gold rush is slowing down for some publishers.
Digiday--As the competition for listeners and ad dollars has heated up, publishers are finding that producing successful podcasts these days requires more internal resources and attention than before.
February 19, 2020
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Is Employee Branding B2B's Answer to Influencer Marketing?
Marketing Insider Group--"Expertise matters even more when it comes to brands that sell to other businesses – B2B companies," argues Michael Brenner, and "there is no better source of expertise than a company’s own employees."
February 19, 2020
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B2B buyers consume an average of 13 content pieces before deciding on a vendor.
Marketing Land--And here's what they find most useful: product specifications and functionality (67%), product comparisons (65%), product success stories (60%), content to specifically show value to internal stakeholders (54%), product tutorials (49%) and guidance on my problem/how to solve it (48%).
February 19, 2020
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How to Increase Your LinkedIn Engagement: 4 Tips
Social Media Examiner--Discover how to cultivate a following on LinkedIn and find tips to spur engagement.
February 19, 2020
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Deliver Mobile Creative That Doesn't Suck
adweek--Mobile phones have the power to decode the human genome, but mobile ads often seem stuck in the 90s.
February 18, 2020
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How to use Search Analytics for Search Console to Amplify your SEO strategy.
assertive--Are you interested in insight into page level keyword coverage? A great, simple, and free process for using available tools to build MoM comparisons.
February 18, 2020
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Video Marketing: How to Establish a Pre-Production Checklist
Business 2 Community--Measure twice, cut once. Here's what you need to know to be prepared to get started with doing your own videos.
February 14, 2020
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Why Hyper-Personalization Should Be A Part Of Every Modern Marketing Strategy
JacobsClevenger Blog--McDonald’s recently acquired an AI-driven personalization software vendor and plans to integrate the new technology into their drive-thru experience, mobile app and in-store kiosks.
February 12, 2020
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How fast does a page get fully indexed: An SEO indexing experiment.
Mark Williams-Cook Blog--A fascinating experiment which measures how quickly a page goes from first encounter with Googlebot to being fully available. Spoiler: 24 days for javascript elements.
February 11, 2020
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5 Tips For Creating An Ultra Responsive Prospect List.
Linkedin--It looks like creating a substantive connection is the key.
February 10, 2020
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Podcast: The Benefits of Perpetual Demand Generation
Gaggleamp Blog--What is perpetual demand generation and how can it fundamentally change the way you look at your marketing efforts.
February 10, 2020
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90.63% of Content Gets No Traffic From Google.
SEO Blog by Ahrefs--An additional 5% get fewer than 10 visits from Google per month. (Sample of 2 million random pages.) There are four characteristics common to the pages that do get traffic from Google.
February 10, 2020
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Is Podcasting Radio's Next Revenue Star?
Radio Ink--Agencies and brands give poor marks on the current station of podcast measurement.
February 09, 2020
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What role does content marketing play in delivering the optimal experience across the buyer journey?
Content Marketing Institute--Significant, says research based on responses from B2B and B2C for-profit marketers at companies with 1,000+ employees.
February 07, 2020
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The Content Marketer's Guide to Thought Leadership.
HubSpot Blog--A how-to guide for boosting credibility through creating content that your audience wants. For example, how to source content ideas.
February 06, 2020
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Research: The Topics Meeting Planners Want for 2020 (free download).
Jay Baer--To find out the topics that interest meeting planners and event goers most, Baer surveyed 150 meeting planners to determine how they are sourcing keynote speakers in 2020.
February 05, 2020
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Google: If You Need To Manually Submit Pages To Index Then You Need To Improve Site Quality.
seroundtable.com--It's worth considering: if you need to manually tell Google about a page, is there something larger at play? Linking structure? Quality? The folks in the comments have some differing opinions.
February 04, 2020
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