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SEO and Storytelling: How to Write for Content Marketing

SEO and Storytelling: How to Write for Content Marketing

An important part of a content marketer's job is search engine optimization (SEO). Traditional branding says marketers need to tell a story, especially with compelling, authentic copy. Obviously, blending both goals is best. But can you meld these go…

3 Specific Ways to Convert Website Visitors into Customers

3 Specific Ways to Convert Website Visitors into Customers

You’ve done your due diligence. You’ve got your buyer persona created. You know the buyer’s journey inside out, backward, and upside down. You’ve optimized your site with keywords your persona is searching for. Congrats. You’ve just completed the fir…

What You Need to Know: An Inbound Marketing Infographic

What You Need to Know: An Inbound Marketing Infographic

When we say everything is inbound, we mean it, and that can be hard to demonstrate to someone who is just starting to wrap their brain around the inbound methodology. You don’t know what you don’t know – that’s a simple fact of life. Also – many of o…

A How-to on Trade Show Marketing for Manufacturing

A How-to on Trade Show Marketing for Manufacturing

As a manufacturer, trade shows are just a part of the business. The annual show probably creeps up on you each year and you wonder what your competition will bring to the table. You and your team scramble to get your booth ready and head to a show th…

5 Ways to Convince Your Boss that Marketing Seminars are Valuable

5 Ways to Convince Your Boss that Marketing Seminars are Valuable

In today's tech-savvy world, just about everyone has a few thought leaders and industry experts they follow. Whether it's a favorite TED speaker, industry influencer, or inspirational author you look up to. And when they come to town to present at a …

Top 20 Buzzwords of Manufacturing Content Marketing (Infographic)

Top 20 Buzzwords of Manufacturing Content Marketing (Infographic)

Manufacturing content marketing. It's a thing. We've shuffled through all of the acronyms, buzzwords, endless lists of must-knows when it comes to content marketing for the manufacturing niche and these are the top 20 words we found most important. I…

The Dynamic Email Marketing Series Part 4: Landing Page Conversion

The Dynamic Email Marketing Series Part 4: Landing Page Conversion

Here it is. The email you worked so hard to craft is ready to come in for a landing. This post will move away from the email itself and onto the subsequent page it clicks-through to. Now that someone has clicked your email, the landing page needs to …

Core Values Insider: We Don't Just Have Them, We Live Them

Core Values Insider: We Don't Just Have Them, We Live Them

A lot of companies have core values. They're thought of as a cornerstone, as an integral part of a company culture. And they can be. Or is it that they could be? ... should be? According to the culture experts over at Forbes, "the importance of a sol…

Building Buyer Personas for Manufacturing Verticals

Building Buyer Personas for Manufacturing Verticals

The success of a well-developed and executed marketing campaign hinges on the fact that you are marketing to the right people. You can push a great deal of content and advertising out, but if you have not targeted the right audience, your campaign is…

Marketing for Manufacturers: Commodity vs. Customized

Marketing for Manufacturers: Commodity vs. Customized

Is your business B2B or B2C? While you undoubtedly know the answer to that question, do you know how it affects your marketing strategy? Being either B2B or B2C is simply a way for businesses to classify themselves based on who they serve. And who a …

Trust Me, I'm Lying: A Mini Book Review (By a One Squared Speaker)

Trust Me, I'm Lying: A Mini Book Review (By a One Squared Speaker)

Ryan Holiday wrote a book - he's written a few. But he wrote one in particular that I had to read, just to understand the hype and context that surrounds it. Why a Holiday book? Because he's one of our featured presenters at One Squared in Minneapoli…

Reach Your Customers: Inbound Marketing Statistics [Infographic]

Reach Your Customers: Inbound Marketing Statistics [Infographic]

Today is the age of the self-educated buyer. Traditional lead generation strategies no longer cut it. Blossoming from this new era is a marketing strategy about being found by the buyer. Once they’ve found you, developing a relationship with them thr…