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Video Content Marketing: Are You A Super Star?

Super Star Video Content By Heidi Cohen

YouTube has passed over a billion unique users every month, that’s almost one out of every two Internet users. Further, all of Ad Age’s Top 100 brands now run campaigns on YouTube despite the fact marketers consider video content difficult and expensive to create. So what do the top brands know about video content that you don’t? Includes 8 charts and marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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7 Content Formats Every Marketer Needs In 2013

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Content marketing is part of 2013’s marketing mantra, at least for brand marketers. Over 90% of brand marketers have or plan to have a content marketing strategy this year according to research by Outbrain and Econsultancy. Whether you’re a content marketing newbie or an experienced content creator, your 2013 content marketing plans should include these seven content formats.

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26 Actionable Content Marketing Options and Tips [Chart]

How do you want your content?

Here are twenty-six B2B content marketing options and how they help your business. Further to improve your information’s marketing effectiveness, actionable content marketing tips are included. (Note: Usage percentage is based on Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs 2013 content marketing research.) Table with actionable tips included.

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30 Insider Tips To Extend Your Content Marketing (Without Really Working)

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One of the biggest challenges content marketers, including B2C, B2B, not-for-product and solopreneurs, face is having enough fresh content to meet customer needs and feed social media.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Social Media Marketing: Choose the Right Content For the Job

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Content makes social media an effective tool for achieving core marketing goals including building brand, attracting prospects, converting customers, and supporting sales and advocates. Content feeds social media’s voracious appetite for information in a variety of forms. Includes detailed options and an infographic.

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5 Ways Social Media Boosts B2B Marketing [Examples]

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Since social media participants mainly use these platforms to engage with family and friends, it’s not surprising B2B marketers aren’t leading the social media charge. That said, social media can help B2B marketers achieve their business objectives. Here are five social media options for B2B marketers with examples.  (Research and B2B examples included). Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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Why Online Video Is Hot [Research]

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Online video is hot. While traditional television viewing has remained stable, consumers are slowly changing their viewing habits. Concurrently, marketers are looking to online video to expand their content marketing offering and advertising options. Further, online video enables media entities, stars, marketers and individuals to contribute to the format’s evolution. Digitas’ NewFront examined a variety of different offerings. Here’s the data to explain the market (complete with charts) and 7 reasons online video is attractive to marketers.

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Do You Know Your Marketing ABCs?

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It’s Back-to-School time. Marketing has changed and evolved since we were in school. Here are the ABCs of Marketing.

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56 Ways to Reuse Content Marketing

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Earth Day teaches us the benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling. In terms of content marketing, recycling is defined as turning old content into new content, often in another format that’s useful. It’s called recycled content because it’s not created from scratch. Recycled content isn’t reusing the same exact content in another location. Here are 56 ways to recycle content marketing across 21 content formats.

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Where’s the Beef in Your Social Media Content? [Chart]

Is your social media content just empty calories filled with meaningless corporate-speak? Strong social media content is a lot like a juicy steak. Here are 5 ways to make your content like a great steak. In addition, there’s a chart to show you how to create content by format across company departments.

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Another 15 Ways to Expand Your Blog Reach

Building a blog following requires a marketing plan. This blog building plan requires consistently exposing new people to your content, ways to keep readers coming back, and making sharing easy. Here are 15 additional tactics to support your blog building efforts.

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