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Press Releases Are My Secret to Marketing on a Small Budget: Here’s How I Do It With No PR Background

Buffer

When my sister and I started Vinat to make buying wine online more accessible, I thought that any kind of PR was going to be prohibitively expensive for our small brand.   This cost us a third of the price of influencer marketing tests we had done and drove far more sales and visibility.

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How 3 Content Brands Tackle Their Toughest Internal Challenges

Content Marketing Institute

There’s also a good chance other stress-inducing concerns include your tech stack and/or your team. Your peers – even at brands lauded for their content approach – struggle with the same issues. Challenge: Stay true to the editorial mission and show value to the company. What to try: Invest in other teams’ success.

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Falling Behind Your Competitors? Build a Content Brand

Content Marketing Institute

“We were hiding our light under a bushel,” says Will McKenna, describing the company’s marketing efforts in the talk he and Fred Macri gave at Content Marketing World 2017: Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Crafting a Successful Content Brand in an 86-Year-Old Enterprise. Create a content brand: Capital Ideas. They’re out on CNBC.

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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

Content Marketing Institute

Yet instead of going deeper into the funnel to garner more sales, we chose to focus on the top of the funnel. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your Content Team Can Sprint With Agile Marketing. Still, we were restless. Was this the best we could do?

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How Databricks Saves $1.4M Annually with Grammarly

Grammarly

“Grammarly is essential to our work because, globally, we all need to operate at the highest quality, with the right brand voice and tone, product names, and terminology.” Contact Sales Executive Summary As the data and AI company Databricks scaled, it needed a solution to ensure on-brand communications worldwide.

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How to Stop Acting Like a Marketer and Start Acting Like a Publisher

Content Marketing Institute

How do we evolve from seeing content as sales collateral to acting like publishers? Start by studying iQ’s five-year evolution as the iQ team replaced its marketing mindset with a publishing one. Start by studying iQ’s five-year evolution as the iQ team replaced its marketing mindset with a publishing one. Click To Tweet.

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How Tom’s of Maine Found Success in Micro-Influencer Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle. These are not people who charge money or make a career out of influencer marketing; they are real people who enjoy the opportunity to engage with our brands.