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Content Marketing in 2021 and Beyond

Neil Patel

Let’s talk about content marketing. Content marketing continues to flourish for one very simple reason: it’s what the people want. That’s content marketing in a nutshell. Consider: Compared to outbound tactics, content marketing costs 62% less but generates 3x as many leads. Exceedingly well.

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How to Create a B2B Content Strategy

Neil Patel

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. However, whether you’re targeting businesses or individual consumers, one point remains the same: Content matters. Content is how you boost brand awareness , build trust in your company, and empower your customers to solve their problems.

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SaaStr Podcast #345 with PagerDuty CMO Julie Herendeen

SaaStr

Does Julie agree that with the increasing amount of marketing content used post-sale, marketing is doing much of the work of CS? Where does Julie see many going wrong when investing heavily into thought leadership and content marketing? In B2C your marketing is leading that whole journey in most cases.

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How to Build an Effective B2B Content Marketing Strategy

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

That’s why content marketing is still one of the most effective ways for B2B companies to drive traffic and generate leads. In a July 2018 study of North American businesses, 50 percent of respondents said they were planning to increase their B2B content marketing spending going forward. How to generate content ideas.

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The Low Viral Coefficient of SaaS, And Why That’s Just Fine

SaaStr

Others are content marketing geniuses and build a mini-brand abnormally early. Our friends over in B2C talk a lot about viral coefficients. Now, if you’re building a free B2C app, where you need tens of millions of users to get to Initial Scale, that’s a disaster. To the first $1m in ARR, to do the Impossible.

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Content Strategy: What Is It & How to Develop One [2021]

Neil Patel

Understanding your audience, and how they act will help you narrow down your content strategy, without feeling like you need to have eggs in hundreds of baskets. Content creation on social media works well for B2C businesses, but not so much for B2B businesses. Step #3: Focus on Your Niche for Your Content Strategy.

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Welcome to E-Commerce Unlocked: Your Free E-Commerce Marketing Course

Neil Patel

Lesson #2: SEO & Content Production. Setting up your Google organic feed Rank your product listing pages E-commerce content marketing workflow Technical SEO for e-commerce Making your content & transaction pages E-commerce topical clusters Content examples to look at. Lesson #3: Content Promotion.

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