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Knowing your customers is a never-ending quest for most marketers. Understanding the customer helps marketers position the product, and sales teams persuade consumers to buy.

The conventional wisdom is that quality beats quantity in content marketing but that is not always the case. Sometimes cheap and crappy content can win

If you’re late to the content marketing game, you can still make a dent in the competition. Here are eight strategies to stand out.

Social media promised to be the great equalizer for all businesses but content producers are being squeezed by companies if they don’t play by the rules

It’s time to emerge from the echo chamber and view content marketing rationally. Does every business need content marketing?

Elaine Ball shares how it pays to be a marketing maverick when your clients or your industry is old-fashioned, or in her case, geeks.

You don’t need a lot of money to realize marketing success. This case study is a great illustration of small business content marketing on a budget.

Jay Acunzo examines the web’s hottest mobile app based on the Snapchat consumer behaviors that most marketers may be missing.

A large social media audience does not equal action. This post shows how to turn social media connections into an actionable audience

There’s lots of lovin’ and hating going on over Pokemon Go, but underneath it all we can discover the very heart of marketing
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