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24May
CMOs Continue to Grapple With Pressure
The WSJ reported earlier this month that the average tenure for chief marketing officers (CMOs) remains at its lowest level in the past decade. Annual research from executive search and leadership advisory firm Spencer Stuart found that the average tenure for CMOs is 40 months. The average tenure of CEOs is climbing – now at an average of 85 months. [...]
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14Apr
Guide to Blogging for SEO: Refresher on Tips & Takeaways from Semrush’s 2022 Report
A little over a year ago, we published a post sharing four tips to optimize blogging for SEO. With 2022 well underway, we want to revisit those tips and determine if and how SEO content development strategies have evolved in just one year. As a quick refresher, blogging is an important tactic to improve SEO because it can help [...]
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11May
Video Marketing in 2021: Why Companies Should Implement Video in Marketing Campaigns
Video continues to grow in popularity as an effective storytelling and lead generating tool in B2B marketing strategies. According to 2020 data from HubSpot, “Video has become the most commonly used format in content marketing, overtaking blogs and infographics.” Specifically, HubSpot shares that “promotional videos and brand storytelling are the most common video types created by marketers.” The number of [...]
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Blurred Lines: Content Marketing and PR
As the lines between marketing and PR continue to blur, it’s no surprise that effective marketers are investing more and more in content marketing. In fact, according to a report issued by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the most effective B2B marketers allocate 42 percent of their budget (up from 37 percent in 2015) to content marketing, whereas the least [...]
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Uncovering Content Management Systems: Step Two in Creative Content Marketing
After writing my last blog post, “Considerations to Stay Competitive in Creative Content Marketing,” I learned just how overwhelming analyzing and distinguishing which method of the vast number of available content marketing platforms to utilize can be. The decision of selecting the platform or platforms needs to be thoughtful and requires critical thinking around which method will drive meaningful results [...]
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Does the Rise of Content Marketing Signal the End of PR? Hardly.
A recent Forbes column caught my interest about the “devolution” of public relations given the rise of content marketing and self-published content by companies and entrepreneurs looking to promote themselves. Former journalist and PR agency owner Robert Wynne comments that the shift toward free content online – coupled with the decline of print publication subscriptions and falling ad rates – [...]
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