Content marketing is a digital strategy that helps you connect to customers, directly and organically. Instead of bombarding potential customers with repetitive messaging full of sales speak, content marketing is a modern-day rebuke to these traditional marketing strategies. And one that allows you, as a business owner or marketer, to engage with and make a genuine connection with your audience and customers. Your people. The genuine part is key. The goal of content marketing is to turn curious prospects into…
To help you create and scale high-quality content for your clients, we asked nine digital marketing professionals and agency owners to share their own content creation strategies. Why? In 2022, 63% of businesses say the number one reason for their lack of content marketing are content creation challenges (ideas), with 51% listing ‘strategy issues’ (delivery, execution) as their top challenge. As marketing matchmakers, clients consistently tell us content marketing is one of their biggest challenges. Not only because of the…
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70% of marketers actively invest in content marketing, as per a Hubspot survey. The same survey shows 24% of marketers plan on increasing their content marketing budget. Meaning, there sure is some value to it — and you already know it if you have been in the marketing industry enough. As a matter of fact, you might already be investing in content marketing If you implement content marketing strategies for yourself or your clients, you know that ideating, creating, publishing,…
If you’re like me then sometimes life gets crazy. But if you set up your systems to bring you success, you’ll keep doing what you need to do in spite of it. Hi I’m John Doherty and I’m the founder of Credo. If you’re looking to take your marketing to the next level with an agency, make sure you’ve downloaded our guide to hiring an agency and scheduled a time to speak with our team here. If you’re like me and…
If you’re writing content for marketing purposes and dumping it all on your blog, you’re doing your potential customers, your organic traffic, your lead generation, and therefore your business a major disservice. Over the last few years I’ve written about 400,000 words on Credo, between almost weekly (sometimes twice weekly) blog posts and our longer guides of which there are five. I started blogging in 2001, and early on built a pretty well followed (and linked to via blogrolls) blog…