Top predicted areas for content marketing investment in 2021 Welcome 2021 and the new challenges of the year. That is, on top of the ongoing challenges from last year. The events of 2020 shook the world, but content marketers buckled down to do what they do best-create valuable content. Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs teamed...
Why Marketing is Accountable Craig Agranoff remembers marketing’s good old days. The thing is that he’s not quite sure if the memories feel like they were yesterday. The pandemic has changed all of that. Today’s chaos-charged environment continues to blur the lines for everything and everyone, especially marketers, whose “new normal” presents persistent challenges to...
In Deloitte Insights’ recently published “2021 Global Marketing Trends” report, the loss of confidence among executives to influence their peers is staggering but not all that surprising. In a world that has become fairly self-oriented, it turns out that the confidence that CMOs have influencing their associates and making an impact fell from 5% to...
Ask any of today’s marketers and they will tell you that the goal of every brand is to make a rational and emotional connection with its community. Because people are emotional animals, when choosing between two similar offerings, the tiebreaker often is how they feel about the company. A brand narrative creates a connection by...
As content marketing continues to become more integrated into their brands, today’s marketers are taking more time to assess and reassess buyer personas and overall brand positioning. According to PAN Communications’ “2018 Content Fitness Report,” content marketing remains among the top priority for marketers, with 60.23 percent, listing it as one of its leading budget...
Content here, content there, content everywhere. No matter where you look these days in the marketing world, telling your story through content – and how you distribute it – is key. According to CopyPress’ “The Current Content Ecosystem Whitepaper,” 82 percent of marketing agencies say they create one to 10 pieces of content, on average,...
In 2016, the Paper & Packaging Board hired Heart+Mind Strategies to study the emotional connection people have with paper. Researchers asked subjects to touch different types of paper and choose their favorite based on its tangible qualities. Subjects then were asked a series of questions designed to regress their decision-making process and reveal the emotions...
powered by Betfy.co.uk As the above graphic shows, (click to see a full representation across 47 sites), the internet continues to rapidly expand with each passing second. Here’s 10 stats from vpnMentor that speak to that growth: According to Internet World Stats, there are 3.7 billion Internet users. Of those, about half are from Asia. There...
Quick, what’s the part of your job that gives you the biggest amount of daily stress? It probably isn’t a surprise that in the life of today’s marketing leader the stress-inducers are, well, everything. A survey done by work management company Workfront and conducted online by MarketingProfs, found that over 60% of marketers are stressed and 25% said...
The most optimal marketing campaigns are multifaceted endeavors, mixing multiple mediums to hit their target audience. Magazine ads, websites, billboards, direct mail, social media and smartphone apps are just a few ways companies convert customers. To drive profits, businesses must allocate their marketing dollars across the right channels. Today, no brand can dispute the power...
