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5 Stellar Pop-Up and Overlay CTAs that Convert (and a Few That Don't)

Here’s how it goes: you are scrolling through the feed of your favorite social media network and you see a brilliant, compelling headline. It offers...

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3 Simple Ways to Engage Your Website Visitors

Captivating visitors should be the top priority of your website. With viewer attention spans dwindling and online competition rising, it has become...

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Why Organic Search Beats Paid Search Over the Long Term

Quickly, answer this — do you click on “ads” when you’re searching for something on Google? If you’re like most people, you answer this with a...

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How to Create an Effective Content Calendar for Your Team

Content calendar problems fall into two categories: either there’s not enough content or too much. Some businesses start blogs, only to abandon them...

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5 Content Marketing Lies You Need to Stop Believing

Not all content is created equal. Marketing automation, social media, and the internet as a whole have lowered the barriers of publishing and...

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What You Need to Know Before Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency

Erik Saltvold knows things about digital marketing agencies that agencies don't even know about themselves. In the past eight years, he's worked with...

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A Talk with John Arms: The Power of Online Video Advertising

“2017 is going to be an inflection point when it comes to online video” according to John Arms, CEO of Minneapolis-based Wingnut Advertising. Arms...

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Why Sales is a Crucial Part of Your Content Marketing Team

If you have a blog (and I hope by now you do), there’s a good chance that the majority of your content is being written by your marketing team. Have...

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5 Journalism Principles that Should Guide Your Content Strategy

I'm surprised by how often people question me when I compare content marketing to journalism. Perhaps it's my newsroom background, but it seems...

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The Fall of Traditional Media and Rise of Content Marketing

Much has been written about the fall of traditional media, but I had a front row seat. I lived through it as a producer for 30-years at one of...

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Content Marketing is Growing, is Quality Content Lacking?

B2B marketers are making content marketing a higher priority and they feel they are doing a better job adjusting their strategy and actually creating...

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Making Content Marketing Your Best Lead Gen Tool

Finger-pointing between sales and marketing has been one of the oldest business blame games for years. Sales complains that marketing doesn’t do...

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[REVIEW] HubSpot Content Marketing Certification

As a content marketer working on the HubSpot platform, I'm thrilled with the newly-created Content Marketing Certification. Why? Because it puts...

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StoryTeller Wins 4th Midwest Regional Emmy® Award

From the beginning, I thought it would be fun to have a video company that could produce video content powerful enough to win awards. Back in 2005, I...

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Understanding the Building Blocks for an Inbound Marketing Pricing Retainer

Whether you are a B2B or B2C marketer, a small or mid-sized company, in just about any industry today, you share the same marketing challenges; you...

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5 Ways to Tell Your Story So People Actually Care

One of the most common challenges I hear from business leaders and marketers is this: “We have a hard time telling our story”. They have a desire to...

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61 Inbound Marketing Tools to Boost Website Performance

The inbound marketing methodology, at its core, is actually pretty simple and easy to understand. It consists of 5 main components: Attract visitors...

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Find and Share the Inspirational Stories in Your Company

Identifying inspirational stories within your company is a challenging proposition. Not because they don’t exist, but because we sometimes overlook...

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