Backlinko

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here are some examples: BrandAnnual Revenue *All figures in USD Hush Blankets $48M Product Validation Mid Day Squares $20M Content Marketing TBH Skincare $6.5M Content Marketing MX Store $65M Search Marketing Who Is Elijah $13M Operational Efficiency Whether your goal is to do $1M or $100M, it comes from executing the fundamentals.

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Contently

OCTOBER 6, 2022

B2B SaaS content is often very technical, which can be a bit dry for readers. But integrating storytelling into your content allows your target audience to build an emotional connection with your brand. Typically, turning a sales prospect into a customer takes much longer in B2B marketing than in B2C.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 1, 2018

You probably never hear anyone reply: “I studied content marketing as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places, says @EditorStahl. storytelling Click To Tweet. Great storytellers collaborate. But that’s OK.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

See (and hear) how six brands, recognized at the 2024 Content Marketing Awards and Cannes Lions, captivate audiences with their creative storytelling. They offer inspiring lessons on crafting engaging, impactful content.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 25, 2021

They make it look easy, but sports writers face the same challenge content marketers do – including how to tell the same basic story in fresh and exciting ways. These go-to sports storytelling techniques can help you find the agony and the ecstasy in your brand stories.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 8, 2020

Data visualizations are some of the most-read content on The New York Times and The Washington Post. Is your brand telling data-driven stories? Continue reading → The post No Need to Survey, You Already Have Data for Great Storytelling [Examples] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In the digital age, customer communication preferences are always evolving, and marketing teams need to remain agile to keep up. Understanding marketing trends is crucial to helping brands evolve their marketing communication strategy to meet customer expectations and stay ahead of the competition.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Content marketing costs 62 percent less than outbound marketing. With people becoming numb to intrusive (outbound) marketing strategies, leveraging permissive marketing techniques like content marketing is becoming more critical. That’s why you need to invest in a great content marketer.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. Sharing this ‘thought-ware’ collectively raises the bar for every brand and therefore makes us strive for bigger, better, bolder.”. Click To Tweet. Image source.

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Kristi Hines

JULY 13, 2021

In this post, I’ll share 25 books on content marketing. Content Marketing Books. Or find something to listen to on the drive to work?

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The stories are not just the personal memories, but the stories of what each manufacturer did to entice me to become one of its brand evangelists. What makes this series compelling is the interviews with the toy developers, engineers, marketers, and executives of each brand. jkkalinowski Click To Tweet. Image source.

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Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And content that generates emotion and helps them overcome a challenge is key to converting them into buyers. As your prospects move through the buyer’s journey, good storytelling helps ensure your brand is top of mind, especially when it’s time to make a purchasing decision.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Let’s talk about content marketing. Content marketing continues to flourish for one very simple reason: it’s what the people want. That’s content marketing in a nutshell. Consider: Compared to outbound tactics, content marketing costs 62% less but generates 3x as many leads. Exceedingly well.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketers who blog regularly receive 55 percent more website visitors and 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. Organizations that prioritize content marketing receive 13X more ROI than those that don’t. It’s no secret that content marketing works. Email engagement (e.g.,

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

? ?. Though an astounding 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing, the successful ones represent a smaller percentage. That’s what prompted me to identify brands excelling at content marketing. These seven retail brands have committed, consistent, and differentiated content programs.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 9, 2021

You’ve heard this advice on brand storytelling before. These examples will inspire you to tell stories that matter to your brand – and create an emotional response with your audience. But what does it look like in practice?

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 9, 2018

Now, Simon delves deeper into how you can translate what Visa and Click2View learned about video into your own visual storytelling. The series was a Content Marketing Awards finalist for strategy – best content marketing program in financial services.). Cast ‘characters’ in reality-based brand stories.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What Are Scripts in Marketing? Marketing scripts are strategic outlines of the words, scenes, and directional elements for audio or video content. Marketing scripts serve as blueprints for your marketing message, ensuring a consistent brand voice while guiding production teams and talent through the creation process.

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Verblio

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We can agree that content marketing is perhaps the most powerful strategy to building an authoritative and credible presence online. Content marketing is a practice supported by many businesses and marketers. Digital content has constantly become easier to create as well as more accessible than ever before.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I can’t think of any superpower that would be more useful for content marketers than to have a sneak preview of all the important developments, trends, technologies, and key disruptors that will impact our strategic and creative decisions over the next 12 months. Allison Wert , content marketing manager, Frontline Education.

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Contently

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In this TCS exclusive, we’re featuring a guest post from the content guru, Ann Handley. Ann is a writer, speaker, and the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs. This post is an excerpt from her brand-new Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content. million shoppers.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. You continually roll the dice in hopes of earning enough trust, credibility, and experience to persuade your audience to embark on a journey alongside your brand. Want proof? pic.twitter.com/D9zDWXxuDb.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2024

Your brand strives for perfection, whether it’s the company’s public image, a seamless campaign message, or flawless email distribution. But your brand has flaws, and that’s a lesson every brand storyteller must learn.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2018

Content marketing is a great, wonderful, powerful way to earn attention and loyalty online … but much of what the industry talks about comes from a B2B perspective. I’m not here to tell you that everything you learned about content marketing is a lie and you need to ditch everything. Interactive content.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

Content marketing is powerful, but it’s also hugely competitive. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The lines between journalism and content marketing are becoming increasingly blurred. As the demand for quality online content grows, so does the demand for professionals who can create it. On the surface, journalism and content marketing may appear to be very similar. Journalism: Objective Reporting of Facts.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But content litters the skies and roads. So how do tourism marketers get their brands noticed? Travel stories seem like an easy sell. Five companies share how they tell unexpected (and expected) stories in common (and less common) spaces.

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Freelance Magic

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If, like me, you struggle to schedule time for your own brand stuff and find yourself scrambling every so often when you “haven’t posted in aaaaaages”, I highly recommend bulk-creating your LinkedIn posts. How SaaS brands can improve their homepage copy. A key mistake brands make with content. You can thank me later.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

1 seed Virginia), I offer six basketball-tournament inspirations for your content marketing strategy. Take a page for your content marketing playbook. Announce the game winners round by round over a few days or weeks and award a prize to all who guessed the “championship” piece of content. Build a bracket.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

If you’re looking for a holiday gift book to advance the recipient’s content marketing skills, I have good news. During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Drivers of content marketing. Messages are filtered for relevance in real time.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So how do podcasts fit into your content marketing strategy? The Power of Content Marketing & a Great Podcast As content marketing continues to evolve and adapt to changing consumer behaviors, it’s essential to stay ahead of the curve and explore new ways of reaching and engaging with your audience.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

But while your Google Home pods, face ID-enabled iPhones, wearable fitness trackers, 3D printers, and the like might be fun and games now, there’s serious power behind those tools – power that enhances the performance of your content marketing efforts, makes them easier to produce, and makes them more enticing to your audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Great brand stories can attract and retain attention long enough to develop trust with your audience no matter where they are in their journey. But to get great stories, marketers must shift their storytelling thinking.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Enter, 20-year marketing veteran Lisa Mattson. With the help of her team, Lisa has reinvigorated Jordan Winery’s brand through videos. This post shares some ideas from her Content Marketing World talk, How Jordan Winery Crushed Content Marketing With a Video-Centered Strategy – ideas that you can steal to reinvigorate your brand.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s because Robert’s columns challenge me to think beyond how to do a content marketing task and even beyond how to do things better. Instead, he makes me think about why we content marketers do what we do and about the role of content , the job of content marketing, and what success really feels like.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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