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5 to Follow: Nashville Sports Teams
Historically, Nashville has been known for its music, food and southern hospitality more than its ever been called a sports town. But recently, Nashville has become home to some of the leagues' best sports teams and the best fans in the game.
Strategy is Key to Successful Content Marketing
Content marketing consumes about a quarter of all marketing budgets today. That has led many to proclaim, "content is king." It is true that engaging content based on a strategy tied to business goals is the king of marketing tools. However, content with no strategy is, at best, a distant royal relative. Whether they call it "content marketing" or not, almost every company practices some form of content marketing. To engage with current and potential customers, companies may create a print newsletter, send an email update, share items on Facebook or write a blog. It is all content marketing.
Let Your Audience Enhance Your Content
Virtually everyone talks about the need for companies to produce content that engages their audience. Some common tactics are to ask a question, take a strong position on an issue, or just make the content easy to share via social media. However, few actually take the step of making the audience a key part of the content creation itself. Starting a conversation, and then asking the audience to actively participate will result in a higher level of engagement. The audience will be more involved and invested in the content. The content itself will continue to grow and improve
It’s How You Say It
Are you typing in the written equivalent of, "thank you for calling" when you respond to a complaint or compliment?
Coca-Cola Using Content Marketing to Double Sales
Coca-Cola has an ambitious plan to utilize content marketing as the central driver of its goal to double its business by 2020. For a company as big as Coke, that’s a lot of growth. And, for the marketing world, Coke’s approach is validation of the important and growing role of content in every company’s marketing efforts.
Think Before You Link
The idea behind the link is to leverage your post as much as possible by attaching it to both in-house and external support sites.
If Content Is King, Are You The Power Behind The Throne?
There are plenty of sites (both business/consumer and pure blog) that have plenty to say, and say it effectively. And they don’t just rely on short sentences, SEO-laden jargon and bullet points, either.
Audience Awareness Drives Success
The best newsletters and magazines produced by companies not only tie their employees closer together, they also serve as potent marketing materials to vendors and interested bystanders, not to mention current and prospective customers.
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