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8 Tips to Getting Started with Content Marketing
With the ever-quickening pace of technology and applications and the high volume of information available, content marketing is an ideal way to expand your reach without the risk of just flooding someone’s feed with too much information. No matter what industry you are in, there is a piece of content marketing for you: coffee, apps, business, entertainment, tourism, food, gardening, sports, politics, travel, technology, food. The aim of content marketing is to create content that speaks directly to the reader or viewer, thereby (hopefully) building trust and increasing your customer retention rate. In order to make things easier to understand, we’ve compiled a list of the top 8 tips to getting started in content marketing for your new startup. Building your brand and the story behind your company’s history is an incredibly important step to get started with your content marketing. If you had a great story of how your company was founded and got into business, it’s time to share your story with a large audience. Be mindful of the times and your chosen medium, and create content that moves your audience out of their seats. This will ensure that your audience is able to research your brand and your business in an instant – by reading a piece of content that they just can’t get away from. Writing clearly and creative content will help to build trust in your message and effectively communicate your company’s credibility to your audience. Additionally, allow your visitors to see your content in another medium – such as videos, photos, infographics, ebooks, how-to articles, mobile app, ecommerce, content about your new products, etc.Tip: The ad format is also an extremely appealing way of bringing your content to new audiences. If you know that your target audience isn’t on Twitter or WeChat, then reach out to those on those platforms. Think outside the box with your content and make sure that you’re engaging with your audience in a way that they can relate to and engage with. It’s time to start building relationships with your audience. Building a community to increase relevance to your audience and target and community engagement make for a richer experience. Now is the time to get your app available and start engaging your target audience in a different way. Content and social media can easily get overwhelmed with a lot of information, so why not break things down and use the time to enjoy them? The best content marketing for any startup is all about community interaction and community engagement. The best way to accomplish this is to find and create content around topics that resonate with your audience and are fun to read and share.
- Jan 22
- 5 mins read
Top CRM Platforms for Business to Help You Win Sales
Companies large and small, across all sectors, are having to spend a lot of money in the past few years to acquire new customers and sales by selling their products and services in new ways. Much like other tools like LearnFlow, Leadbase, or ClickZ Score, Salesforce offers users an on-demand service. Salesforce allows you to track your sales funnel. Creating your own CRM allows you to track your lead, sales, nurture, and profitability. When you use Marketo, you can manage up to five leads and treat up to 60 contacts in the interface of the CRM. When you consider your marketing hours or split between social media, email, sales and email marketing, having your entire back-end applications integrated for field sales and marketing automation will help you in being more successful in closing deals and ultimately profit from your investment. Users get to manage their entire CRM systems from anywhere. This gives a lot of flexibility in the way you can use your CRM as well as help with finding and nurturing leads. One of the CRM providers to focus on now is Marketo Competitors.Many users will notice that this platform is not as basic as the other CRMs. It comes with a pretty extensive integration with CRM systems of all kinds. You can add leads into your CRM based on any of these sales triggers. Many marketers have been using these to manage leads and contacts. Or you might find that the ecommerce management tools will provide integration to your email and lead management systems. You could even use customer management systems to support your data analytics. These systems will let you track key metrics like return on investment, customers churn, leads generated, priority and next steps. They will also enable you to change which CRM or platform you use so you can optimize your marketing. 6. Email Marketing Systems As you are capable of managing more leads than any other type of marketing, you can start building your email campaigns much earlier. You can also add marketing automation systems to better match your message so you can measure the success and optimize your strategies. If you want to know how long your potential customers hold on to your message, how much information they provide, and if they are already back on the page, then a Sales Funnel can give you useful data for this. Do you have a team that goes out to capture, manage and track leads or contact information? It is the most popular CRM solution for business users today and can manage a wide range of records, sales cycles, customer activities and workflow of any type. What are your top 10 marketing automation tools to help your business thrive?
- Jan 22
- 5 mins read
Motivate Your Email Marketing Efforts
According to the statistics from Yoast, the most important factor in deciding whether a marketing tool works for you is the email response rate (ORRR). So for those of you who are starting out with email marketing, we are sharing some ideas about what’s key for you to do to make it work. You might even find an overarching framework like a mission statement or a few core values you want to focus on each and every time you send an email. To make sure you’re delivering the right content to your customers, you must know what your customers want and need. The best part about content marketing is that it’s easy to roll out for you. Email marketing services like Constant Contact, MailChimp and Aweber offer tons of tools that let you do this. Most of them do a great job at targeting audiences based on email addresses, and most of them help you automate these process with basic text messages and email templates. Human marketers are expensive, and artificial intelligence makes it possible to operate an email program without human intervention. So make sure you know the core values, or issues your customers care about before you start a new campaign or send them more email. For example, some organizations may be afraid to use email marketing because people don’t read email. But this is so far from the truth that it has actually skyrocketed in importance, with more than 50% of marketers saying they email customers less than they used to. This includes creating an email marketing program that is highly relevant to your audience. In addition to fun subject lines, you can also include messaging around things that will help your audience make an informed decision. You want to be intentional with your emails so you are taking a personal approach to your target audience. First and foremost, make sure you get your audience’s attention, so the email marketing campaign works. Yes, it makes sense to start the email with a one or two line message to start, but don’t take it too far. People have worked very hard over the years to create effective email marketing programs, but the key is keeping it simple and clear. Do you like to see your email subject line? Some of us are new to email marketing and afraid to open an email in the hopes of giving one up. Many of us focus on simply making these emails go to waste without doing our part to build trust with our audience. Chris McDowell, LLC are ranked number eight among the top list of top email marketing and email design companies, and number one in customer experience.
- Jan 21
- 5 mins read
Business 2 Community: The SaaS industry and this week’s panel discussion
Business 2 Community panel discussions provide a great opportunity to discuss cloud computing, security issues, data protection, and privacy issues. Panel discussions provide an opportunity for our audience of entrepreneurs and VCs to get together and discuss important topics around their trade and work that will affect their business. We believe that peer pressure will help create an environment where people are allowed to show what they are truly capable of. By bringing together the community of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, B2C platforms become more open and no-holds-barred conversations are more likely to take place. By bringing together the community of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, B2C platforms become more open and no-holds-barred conversations are more likely to take place. We believe that peer pressure will help create an environment where people are allowed to show what they are truly capable of.B2C platforms are moving from its role as market platform to being a community platform. When we took an in-depth look at SaaS platforms, we got to find out more about the roles of big data and machine learning and what those bring to the SaaS business model. And, our new Fund will play a vital role in connecting the industry’s brightest entrepreneurs with the right people to help them scale. We did a deep dive into the growth of SaaS companies and found that 60% of customers are moving from their main applications to their SaaS providers. Because of this, SaaS companies are using more data and using machine learning to automate processes in their SaaS platforms. This year, SaaS companies will need to respect your data even more than ever. While that may seem like a small request, it means your company will need to protect your data even more than your websites or data files. What if someone hack your data – how do you ensure that they do not learn what information you stored and how do you go about protecting them? GDPR is now the norm and businesses will need to be extra sensitive about data protection issues. Customers want to know that their data and data life is being protected in a GDPR environment and no SaaS company will have customers if they do not take that into account. And we are learning a lot about how we can use data best for our business in the age of GDPR. There is a huge need for trusted platforms that offer the consumers the best data and the highest level of security. With companies and enterprise solving the world’s biggest problems with data efficiently, customers like cloud infrastructure solution providers to reduce risk for data security. Third party risk assessors provide the industry’s view of data at Scale.
- Jan 20
- 5 mins read
Global WebNews about the news
A modern, global, information ecosystem containing all content, data, and experiences is not only essential for technology, it’s imperative for how we live today. A truly global, not just digital media network. And now, as the most powerful storytellers in the world, more and more people across the globe are coming to us with their news. The people behind GlobalNews have worked tirelessly for decades to help build up a global knowledge network. GlobalNews has been doing news on a truly global scale since 2005. The main emphasis of the service is bringing news, information, and discourse, covering issues of the day, displaying it in a way people can access on every internet connected device, and ensuring that it’s presented with impartiality and freedom of speech. GlobalNews is your go-to source for the news, information, and debate about important global and local topics, while eliminating fragmentation of content with each individual organization’s own editorial line. It was our goal to create a “virtuous circle” of context in which our readers can engage with our stories and news in as many different ways as possible. All modern web development designs also help web professionals and their clients maintain control over the end-user experience of their web properties. Our unique web design allows you to choose from a range of different forms for the best resolution, rich HTML, and full-screen implementation, coupled with control over layouts, add-ons, the use of accessible digital typography, and well, the ever-important widget at the bottom of the page. Because the web design is a key part of the user experience, it can also help save time and effort. Social represents the greatest part of the user experience on our website, helping you socialize your news pages. The Social platform on GlobalNews is only possible because our dedicated team of news authors and editors has years of experience editing, optimizing, and creating content for every possible person experience: to go from popular to viral. Social makes our content immediate and mobile by presenting it natively on every reader device. GlobalWebNews has a large network of editors who curate the most compelling news from around the world, then syndicate to users. Social gives our readers an easily accessible place to find the best story on a topic – human or machine-generated – most relevant to them. The network provides a comprehensive view of news – breaking, mainstream, industry or politics – we’ve curated together. Social is the backbone of the GlobalWebNews network and the network’s anchor content. We’ve created GlobalWebNews.com to give users total control over the finishing work – the content creation process. We are working on ways to scale this process so that you can work even more efficiently in the GlobalWebNews network.
- Jan 20
- 5 mins read
What’s the Best Way to Measure My Website’s Motivations?
And it turns out that that’s the best way to measure how a website is performing. Even if your websites is creating a lot of visits, they are still not gathering the results you need from those visitors. Since then, I’ve looked to further measure my site’s website performance and gain a better understanding of how I attribute those results. How to track website dwell time As you’ll be seeing in the next section, tracking your website’s website dwell time is the first element you need to measure to measure the success of your SEO work. First, let’s take a look at what a website dwell time is. Before we start, it’s important to define what I mean by a website dwell time and what a page will do with it. What I mean by a website dwell time We are comparing “completion rate” of his blog post to the number of pages visitors are spending on the homepage and what we can measure as their “overall” click-through rate. Clicks are the number of unique visitors that visit your website, and a website’s click-through rate can be measured by comparing it to the average number of visitors, even if they don’t click-through to the page they are visiting. That means if 10 of the 10 visitors that visit your website click-through, and only 1 actually completes their purchase, your website’s click-through rate is a measurement of how well you do. In this post I’m going to talk about a few ways I can optimize and optimize that website so that visitors will perform the exact actions we want them to perform: Let’s start by taking a look at what I can determine from my analysis of comScore reports from my website. One of the most important elements in managing your website’s success is maintaining the number of views to your website as “completed” by the “crawler”. If your page views are high but your numbers of sales are low, then your visitors are doing something wrong. Make sure to continue improving and optimizing your website for page views and “customers”. Now, one of the best ways to see a referral traffic number is to check it against a map of the United States in your city or state. What I found when I looked up these numbers were that the number of visitors to the Retail Store jumped between 98%-93.7% and that their average visit duration had jumped from 42 seconds to 61 seconds and the average sale was 4.1 percent. One of the best ways to do this is to collect data about people, and the last place you’d ever want to do that is in your email marketing list.
- Jan 17
- 5 mins read
Spitfire expands its Academy to allow cross-cultural marketing professionals to upskill
The new academy is designed to upskill SA professionals in all marketing disciplines, including B2B, B2C, and cross-cultural marketing. Since launching in South Africa four years ago, the company has witnessed a resurgence in the quality of lead generation through its personalised marketing services. This expansion has also helped enable it to upskill its talent pool to empower the business to serve its current and future customers in the digital and cross-cultural marketing industry. The Spitfire Inbound Academy, founded in 2014, and now signed up by 1 800 professionals, is a comprehensive 24-month training programme that enables professionals to acquire more knowledge, become more market-savvy and grow their skills. In the era of B2B marketing, B2C marketing, and B2C B2B, where a sophisticated mix of data intelligence, content and one-to-one engagements can deliver outcomes far beyond the creation of a PR or website, the Inbound Academy brings the whole picture to life in an efficient, intuitive and cost-effective manner, effectively connecting users with content and experts in their chosen field of expertise. In the past, Inbound marketers too often felt like cross-disciplinary specialists solely tasked with content creation or data innovation – rather than the analysts required to prepare budgets and identify audiences, according to the expert. Spitfire’s Inbound Academy brings together all of this effort for better results – matching both the technical knowledge required by the content developer and the actual customer journey – providing a powerful step-change in the capability and understanding of B2B and B2C marketing, plus cross-cultural marketing. “This is one of the first of many education initiatives the company has in mind – eventually, we want to widen the scope of the academy to cover B2B, B2C, digital publishing, and also new media disciplines,” says Godfrey. An e-learning company, which has been helping B2B marketers up their content game for the last decade. Spitfire Marketing has recently been bought by BenefitDevelopment in January this year and is now the preferred learning partner for more than 200 global brands such as: Capital One, Cisco, GE, HubSpot, Microsoft, Progressive and Oracle. The academy curriculum has been specially developed to encourage clients to improve their content by educating and refreshing themselves on evolving industry trends, techniques and new services. Spitfire Marketing (Spitfire.com) hosts an Inbound Academy, an online community specifically geared towards Outcome Professionals. (S&L), an award-winning organization that evolved from Outcome Consultancy in 2007, launched Spitfire Marketing this year with the mission to help professionals achieve more through learning. Attracting leading global brands including: Capital One, HubSpot, Microsoft, Cisco, GE, HubSpot, and SAP, the company plans to become a one-stop shop for today’s business marketers who need a learning solution that measures their ROI.
- Jan 15
- 4 mins read
Does the majority of senior leaders think in l…
The majority of senior leaders think their company’s content marketing efforts are “much more effective” than in previous years. This is the kind of data I hope HubSpot as well as the rest of the marketing industry starts to realize is not going to go away. Paul Bromberg (featured lead on Source Me) provided this analysis on HubSpot’s actual customer journey as part of a course on email marketing, at which David McCullough (featured lead on Share My Ad) kicked off the presentation. Our data demonstrates that the majority of email is opened when one first contacts a company via email. Here are some more details from the exact same presentation you can use to plan your own data stream and gain an understanding of the behavior of email customers.Here is the data from HubSpot itself about email content and performance. When comparing this against the number of emails sent, you’ll see that story content has a lower open rate than product/offer offers. Email content related to a product or offer has a higher open rate Email content on its own had a high open rate, but declined as time passed. All three of these items had a low open rate in the later email. Even more interesting, the faster email depth began the higher the click rate. Text content has lower open rate Traditionally industry data on email has been based on the message format that the email consists of. This can mean that white paper, case studies, and case studies/conclusions messages had a higher open rate. The difference in the HubSpot data is that the value-driven content from business goals and decisions had a high open rate than those with a white paper and analysis framework. We found this correlation, and I think it helps understand why some sources have higher open rates than others. Content that furthers the overall business/marketing goals drove higher open rates Content sold to the target market has a lower open rate The significance here is that even where we do see lower open rates, it’s for content that would increase the likelihood of a potential lead placing a sign-up email sign-up link on his or her site. What HubSpot did not capture is the number of time spent on clickable (unsubscribed, click-to-go) email attachments of non-content related emails. In the context of your end user’s inbox they have many more different messages to digest, and therefore, for effort to deliver a global view of performance we would expect a higher open rate than we have compared this to the CPG industry, which has a high-open rate on the majority of its emails, but less so in the beginning and later stages of the day.
- Jan 09
- 4 mins read
Receiving Traffic From Visitors Who Share Your Content
Facebook share is one of the more popular ways to communicate with your fans and followers and to provide the best possible user experience. You can capture a lot of traffic and engagement by sharing articles or even videos across your social media accounts. One of the best ways to instantly get visibility on social media is to publish a blog post or a digital book. Social media users love reading content on blogs and so many people like to include blogging in their media strategy, and it works wonders for your professional network. Include blogs and ebooks in your content marketing strategy. Share content that people will enjoy sharing on different social media channels. Stock photos, relevant words and phrases, informative visuals and videos are some of the best tactics you can use in your business. Brilliant Content Marketing Story Examples The best way to get plenty of exposure online is to create content in your industry that people will want to share. Besides, the best way to go about a virtual tour is via a media source. People value hearing and reading about your business — so we’re going to talk about some great ways to share that content. Tour Guides Provide Useful and Educating Content Tour Guides Give Material Giveaways in Email Marketing There are times when it is highly useful for a tour guide to share some valuable information in an email message from their website or blog. These types of emails are by far the best way to distribute information regarding a tour guide. Also, it is much more effective if you use a tour guide to tell your story rather than for them to tell the story for you. One of the best ways to help people gain better context about what a tour guide can do for them is to provide some simple prompts in the email. You can also use quotes in your blog, telling your story as an individual or as an example for others to follow. Email sign-ups are a great way to get something for absolutely nothing. Actionable Content Marketing Examples with Amazing Results Email sign-ups are a great way to get something for absolutely nothing. Email sign-ups are great for business-to-business marketing and client retention. Email sign-ups are great for business-to-business marketing and client retention. Imagine the way your company could benefit from email sign-ups! Optimize all of your relevant content and include SEO copy, a piece of attractive imagery, as well as all of your content on social channels to be shared online. Optimize all of your relevant content and include SEO copy, a piece of attractive imagery, as well as all of your content on social channels to be shared online.
- Dec 31
- 6 mins read
How to create and use content marketing strategy for your business
When setting an overall content marketing strategy for your business, the first step you may need to take is defining the scope of your content marketing and selecting the types of content that will be considered. Once you know what types of content that you should be working on, the next step is to define the content you should be producing, who you should be working with and how to get your content to flow seamlessly across all the different channels that your target audience will be engaged with. There are a number of ways that you can actively integrate content marketing and all the different ways that your target audience consumes content online. Understanding the needs of your audience is the most important component of a successful content marketing strategy. The ultimate goal of creating a content strategy is to help grow your business through content and that’s the only reason why you should be developing a strategy for content marketing. Another type of content that can help grow your business is product development and the actual generation of content. Since you do not need the involvement of your entire staff or audience to understand how the content should serve the project, you can focus on doing the content that will serve your business most well.The great thing about creating content for product development is that there is very little guesswork involved when it comes to what types of content will be promoted for the new or enhanced product. Let’s talk about social media because this is also another type of content that you can create. However, while doing this, social media is still a form of content marketing that focuses on capturing the attention of your target audience. Video is another kind of content that can be a great way to give yourself an extra incentive to create content that benefits your business. This type of content takes up a lot more time than writing content about a topic but it is very effective for attracting attention from your targeted audience. A content marketing strategy for your business is therefore essential to maintaining your business’ success and generating valuable results. Content marketing has taken on a lot of importance recently because it is a crucial component of creating a successful business. Ultimately, this is your target audience, their needs, and interests, that are what you should be focusing on in order to provide quality content that will generate results. Content marketing allows you to take a more active role in your business by not only creating online content but providing it in an informative and entertaining manner for your target audience.
- Dec 31
- 4 mins read
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