In marketing, a misconception exists that all marketers are essentially divided into one of two camps—the “data” team or the “creative” team. One team believes great marketing is “science” and the other team believes great marketing is an “art.” A veritable cold war exists between these two mythological factions. In fact, many content marketers are openly hostile to analytics, as if they fear that being analytical will somehow reduce or destroy their ability to do bleeding-edge creative work. It took me a while to understand that this hostility was actually due to the fact that most marketers don’t really know what Google Analytics is or how powerful a content marketing tool it can be.
How Paid Ads Can Boost the Success of Inbound Marketing Strategies
Although inbound marketing alone can optimize your search rankings and promote your brand presence, integrating paid advertising into your strategy can quickly help you maximize your success. By utilizing paid advertising campaigns alongside your inbound marketing techniques, you can successfully place your content in front of your target audience for improved visibility and engagement. Your target audience will have more opportunities to explore your website, blogs and other content types with the paid ads acting as key reminders.
Content Strategy: An Overview
Creating a content strategy for your business is one of THE most critical steps on your way to developing a solid marketing strategy.
What is content strategy? Content strategy refers to the planning, development, and management of content! Many people confuse content strategy with content marketing. Content Marketing refers to the actual creation of marketing pieces that put your strategy into motion.
Say Hello to Verge's New Content Marketing Blog
Welcome to the new Verge Content and Digital Marketing Blog!
In this blog we'll be providing in depth coverage on content marketing and digital marketing to help content marketers and digital marketers discover best practices in the field, stay abreast of the latest industry news, and discover new insights and thought leadership in marketing.
Key ares of focus for the blog will be:
Content strategy
Content marketing management
Content brand and brand management
Digital marketing strategy
SEO, SEM, and search marketing
PPC and advertising technology
Email marmeting
Marketing automation and CRM
Marketing technology and the Martech stack
Social media marketing
Influencer marketing
We aim for this blog to become the a premier source of information for digital marketers and the first stop marketers go to get quality marketing content.