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Breaking Down 5 Key Content Marketing Metrics

Your content marketing efforts are robust and coordinated. You’re creating videos, product pages, white papers, blog posts, promotional materials, and more across a variety of channels to drive sales and boost profits. But how do you measure the efficacy of those efforts, in a segmented and clear way? We break down five key content marketing…

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5 Tips for Better Business Blogging

Does your business have a blog? Is it driving new traffic to your website? Is it being used to speak to industry news or trends that are meaningful to your customer base? Blogging can be a potent tool for attracting new visitors to your company website. It can also deepen engagement with existing customers, develop…

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A 5-Step Approach to Getting Started with Content Marketing

I’ve been traveling the past eight days with two of my staff, meeting with clients and prospects of mid-sized B2B companies in a variety of sectors. The one-on-one exchange has been one of the biggest benefits of this trip—far more productive than sitting at a trade show trapped in a booth, staring across the aisle…

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“Make the Logo Bigger!” 5 ROI-Killing Requests You’re Making of Your Marketing Agency

I know what you’re thinking. What makes me, the Director of Sales & Marketing for an agency, qualified to write such a post and expect any of you to think it’s unbiased? Before you draw your gun from the holster determined to blow holes, know this, I wasn’t always on the agency side. Not only…

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That’s No Moon: 3 Things You Need To Know About Google Universal Analytics

In the pivotal scene of one of the greatest movies of all time, Star Wars, Davish “Pops” Krail and his squad of Y-wings are making a run in the trenches of the Death Star, when suddenly bolts of lasers tear through two of his squadmates. “Lost Tiree, lost Dutch,” Pops manages, “They came from…behind,” he…

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What’s up with inbound marketing? Why should you care?

Is everyone into inbound marketing these days? I’ve taken to tallying the number of times inbound appears while my colleagues and I read our morning trades (ahem, blogs). And it’s not just my anecdotal observation that inbound is garnering a lot of buzz, just ask Google.  You can see that queries for content relating to…

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Oneupweb Webinar: Optimizing Site Navigation for Conversion

Site navigation is more than just a directional guide. Designed properly, it’s a critical marketing tool. Optimized site navigation reinforces personal value, communicating relevance, establishing brand authority and personalizing user experience. Navigation design based on market research and customer data means stronger site performance, improved lead qualification, increased conversion rates and more. On Friday, March…

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OneUpWeb Presents: Content Marketing and B2B Lead Gen, A Webinar

Content marketing is a personal, conversational approach to marketing. It takes many forms—from infographics to white papers, blog posts (this is content marketing) to webinars. No matter what form it takes, there are ways to make it work for your business. In our latest webinar from this past Friday, we talked about content marketing and…

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Getting Your House In Order: A Primer for Inbound Marketing

The days of interruption marketing are nearly over—inbound marketing is quickly replacing the outmoded outbound marketing days of yore. For years now, new technologies have been developed solely for weeding out your outbound marketing efforts (caller id, robust spam filters, and streaming subscription services to name a few). As quickly as new modes of advertising…

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Instagram Video vs. Vine: 5 Things Brands Should Consider

It seems incredible that Vine is barely a year old, and that Video on Instagram didn’t debut until June 2013. Particularly for brands looking to engage the Millennial market, short-format video marketing makes a compelling case. Short-format video appeals, in particular, to Millennials’ appetite for multimedia content and what Nielsen calls their preference for “off-beat,…

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5 Simple Ways to Re-Use Your Existing Blog Content

Creating unique and compelling blog content is hard.  Deciding on a topic, writing, editing, proofing, then off to design and production, more proofing, scheduling, tagging… there are so many pieces to producing even the simplest blog. Then you post it, and start the whole process over again the next day. But, your blog has so…

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Content Marketing: Are You Relevant?

Welcome to 2014, less than two months young and chock with its own flair: a polar vortex, the winter games, Princeton and Facebook with their public “my smarts are smarter than your smarts war”. Seems like it’s going to be eventful and full of content marketing fodder. (Yes, I had to drop that word into…

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