Tag: content marketing
Successful Marketing Requires a Deep Understanding of Your Business
The #1 reason marketing is ineffective is because your marketing resources lack a structured process and experienced people for understanding your business, rapidly and holistically
If you want to develop a great marketing strategy, just Google it. There are thousands of them, conveniently portioned into whatever size you’re looking for.
You want “5 Tips?” “Eight Steps”? How about “11 Strategies”? Can we show you something in a bigger size? Maybe “18 Ways” is more of what you’re looking for…?
They’re all there, along with ways to become a social media star, crush your competition, and dazzle your prospects with the latest in marketing automation tools.
… Continue Reading >>How Content Marketing Can Drive Double-Digit Sales Growth
With signs pointing up for the U.S. economy, despite inflation and supply chain challenges, manufacturers, software developers, service providers, and nonprofits have a unique opportunity to grow their share of the market.
But it won’t happen for everyone. As with luck, economic tailwinds favor the prepared. That’s why it’s critical to establish an effective content marketing strategy.
Door knocking, cold calling, and tradeshows might have been effective in the past but that’s no longer the case for most businesses – even if you can find enough salespeople to do it.
Today’s markets demand educational, online content – with information that helps educate prospects who are increasingly researching solutions before ever speaking to you.
… Continue Reading >>Clutch Names Innovaxis Marketing as One of the Best Digital Marketing Companies in Illinois
The rise of the internet has revolutionized how companies market and advertise their products and services. This shift from traditional to online marketing has helped reinforce the surging popularity of content marketing in the market. At Innovaxis, we spend a lot of time getting to know both our clients’ businesses and the needs of their prospects. We make sure that your content resonates with your audience by putting your prospects’ problems at the core.
With over 15 years of experience in the market, our team has delivered high-quality services and solutions for our clients. Today, we’re excited to announce our latest Clutch award. Our team was named as one of the 2022 B2B leaders on their platform and has been listed among the top content marketing companies in Illinois.
… Continue Reading >>Marketing Agency vs. In-House Hiring: Which One Is Best?
With 25 years in B2B marketing—from market research to product management to agency consulting—I have found that marketing firms have a 3x faster and bigger impact than a full-time hire, often at a lower cost – if you find the right agency, and these two approaches are not mutually exclusive.
Effective Demand Generation Requires a Multitude of Skillsets
Marketing agencies use a team of specialists vs. expecting one person to be able to do it all. Maximizing demand and lead generation today requires a multitude of skill sets – here are the top 16:
… Continue Reading >>SEO & The Role of Content Marketing
“Creating compelling and useful content will likely influence your website more than any of the other factors discussed here.” – Google SEO Starter Guide
Once all of your current web pages and blogs are fully optimized for SEO, you’ll see significant rankings increases often 2-30% or more. For keywords where you’re not yet ranking on Google page one’s top 3 results, you will need more content to drive them higher in addition to offsite link building, which we will cover later.
After brainstorming and prioritizing new content ideas, you will have a new content calendar. We recommend that you create at least three new website content items per month that include fully optimized page names,
… Continue Reading >>Brand Story & SEO: Increasing Website Conversions
To increase your website’s capacity to generate leads, many often turn to a commissioning new web design. Facelifts can help but only addresses the style of your brand and not its substance.
Savvy marketers know that you can increase traffic to your website with content marketing leveraged by search engine optimization (SEO) and PR to increase leads but that’s only half the battle.
While a creative, professional web design, content marketing, SEO, and PR are all important pieces of the puzzle, converting more website traffic into leads depends more upon how strongly your messaging resonates with prospects.
… Continue Reading >>5 Key Building Blocks of Successful B2B SEO
There are numerous components to search engine optimization (SEO) in business-to-business (B2B) marketing, so how do you know where to start. Here are five key building blocks that, once mastered, will increase traffic for any website by 30-300% or more.
Keyword Rankings
“The power of keyword research lies in better understanding your target market and how they are searching for your content, services, or products.” – Moz
Tracking keyword rankings is central to the success of all SEO activities. Keywords are a leading indicator for lead generation, along with organic search traffic and lead generation. Rank for the wrong keywords, and you will have wasted a lot of time and money.
… Continue Reading >>#fail: How to Write B2B Blogs that Suck
There are a lot of ways to fail at B2B blogging and sometimes we feel as if we have seen them all, but then from out of the blue – and yes, the internet is in fact, mostly blue; we looked it up – will come a daring and original new form of just plain terrible blogging.
We’re looking at you,           .com
But you don’t have to be super creative to fail at B2B blogging. There are plenty of ordinary ways to create B2B blog content that is limp, unreadable, ineffective or that actively repels or offends your prospects.
We’re going to walk you through some of the best ways to accomplish all of those things,
… Continue Reading >>5 Common Mistakes Made by Content Marketing Agencies
Content marketing is the foundation of inbound lead generation. When part of a strategic marketing plan leveraged with search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing can dramatically increase thought leadership, inbound lead generation, revenue and profits.
Effective content marketing can generate ROI of at least 300% within 9-18 months, sometimes sooner. Unfortunately, ineffective content marketing is more common, can cost several thousand per month and may only result in a handful of leads. How can you tell the good from the bad so you don’t waste a lot of time and money?
Here are five common mistakes made by content marketing agencies, and how to avoid them.
Mistake #1: Content in a VacuumAny content marketing agency who guarantees they can boost your online ranking with content alone is telling you a tired story.
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