Author: smartcompany

Are you looking for some banking advice or tips on how to make your e-commerce site shine?

The blogs on SmartCompany’s annual list of Australia’s Best Business Blogs may be just what you’re looking for.

These are the blogs we think offer some of the best free advice for small business owners in a range of areas – from human resources and leadership to content marketing and design.

Some of these blogs have appeared on our lists in previous years; we think they continue to provide valuable insights and tips for small business owners.

 

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Author: Grace Duffy

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What’s New This Week

Facebook Opens Instant Articles Program to All Publishers: Facebook “will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers – of any size, anywhere in the world.”

Twitter Introduces Two New Customer Service Tools: Twitter released “two new tools to help businesses provide even better customer service on Twitter.” These tools include a simple way to “move from Tweets to Direct Messages” and “a new feature called Customer Feedback.”

 

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Author: aidenmarketing.com

What good is having content if you don’t have a content marketing strategy? Having a content marketing strategy playbook can benefit your business in many ways with enabling you to measure and optimize your content being one of the top benefits. If you are asking how do I get started with a content marketing strategy or are looking for content marketing keys to improve the performance of your content, then we have the answers.

DISCOVER:

How to get found by your ideal customers online

Bridge the gap from awareness to trust building

 

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Author: blog.kissmetrics.com

The evolution of content marketing as a discipline has made content creation a core marketing function. At the top of the sales funnel, effective presentations and web site content generate leads and build awareness. Farther along in the buyer’s journey, finely tailored content such as case studies and white papers can help specific buyer personas build consensus for adoption of a vendor’s solution – shortening sales cycles and increasing the likelihood of a successful close.

That’s the ideal. The reality is that a lack of marketing and sales alignment often creates barriers to successful content marketing.

 

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Author: adweek.com

Contently has purchased Docalytics for an undisclosed sum to ramp up its data offerings for publishing-minded, business-to-business clients. In the increasingly competitive content marketing space, Contently hopes to offer customers better actionable results.

“Data is key to B2B marketers, and this allows us to provide them with data that no one else can,” said Joe Coleman, CEO of New York-based Contently.

Docalytics, a startup based in St. Paul, Minn., essentially lets marketers see past downloaded content as it pertains to case studies, white papers, PDFs, e-books and even sales decks.

 

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