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The Benefits of Using Plain Language in B2B Healthcare Content

The Benefits of Using Plain Language in B2B Healthcare Content

Do healthcare B2B buyers prefer marketing content from brands that use clear, plain language? If so, what benefits does using that sort of language deliver? To find out, Aha Media conducted a study with more than 150 clinical and non-clinical professionals.

How Communications Pros Should 'Date' AI

How Communications Pros Should 'Date' AI

Marketers' tentative trial-and-error with AI can feel a lot like dating—red flags and all. Here's how a "dating" approach can help you embrace AI.

How to Craft Your Brand's Elevator Pitch

How to Craft Your Brand's Elevator Pitch

To make the right first impression, your brand needs an elevator pitch—a practiced script that introduces yourself and your business in a positive way that is both relevant and memorable. Here are tips on how to craft one.

Mastering Brand Consistency in the Age of AI: A Guide for Marketers

Mastering Brand Consistency in the Age of AI: A Guide for Marketers

Companies that have large budgets, large teams, and deep brand expertise have to be thoughtful about what goes into defining a brand—all the more so now that marketers are using AI to create content. Here are three ways to help ensure your brand's voice stays consistent.

B2B Content Promotion in 2023: Channel and Format Trends

B2B Content Promotion in 2023: Channel and Format Trends

Some 65% of B2B marketers say they're not spending enough time on content promotion, according to recent research from Converge.

Stop the Churn: Why Less Is More in B2B Content Marketing

Stop the Churn: Why Less Is More in B2B Content Marketing

B2B marketing content needs to make an impact. It needs to be so thought-provoking and well-written that buyers devour it from start to finish. Here are some tips for where to start.

Business Video Benchmarks: Retention Rates by Length

Business Video Benchmarks: Retention Rates by Length

What share of viewers watch online videos from businesses all the way to the end? How is the retention rate affected by video length? To find out, Vidyard analyzed 2022 data for more than 1,778,000 videos created by its customers.

The Fight Against Bot Traffic: Three Ways Marketing and Security Can Partner

The Fight Against Bot Traffic: Three Ways Marketing and Security Can Partner

You've got a great signup conversion rate! Except... nope, those are full of bots. But what about all that traffic to... nope. Also bots. Sound familiar? Working with the security team can help.

Nine Strategic Content Repurposing Tips

Nine Strategic Content Repurposing Tips

The benefits of repurposing content are well-known. But you can't just pick a random blog post off your website and convert it into a random content format. Keep your repurposing strategic with these nine tips.

Top 3 AI Tools for High-Quality Content Creation

Top 3 AI Tools for High-Quality Content Creation

Everywhere you look, another tech company is debuting its version of generative AI. So which tools are actually a good investment for content marketers? This article takes a look at three tools that offer unique strengths in content creation.

Why Thought Leadership Content Fails

Why Thought Leadership Content Fails

Senior executives say the top reasons thought leadership content tends to fail are faulty methodologies and a lack of internal buy-in, according to recent research from Bospar and Reputation Leaders.

SaaS Case Study Marketing Trends for 2023

SaaS Case Study Marketing Trends for 2023

Most software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketers say text is the format they use most for their case studies, but that they want to create more video case studies in 2023, according to recent research from Uplift Content.

How to Make Thought Leadership a B2B Demand-Gen Dynamo

How to Make Thought Leadership a B2B Demand-Gen Dynamo

Does your thought leadership contribute to marketing, or is it just amorphous posturing that makes you sound smart? (Spoiler: that wouldn't really be thought leadership, anyway.) Here's how to infuse actual demand gen into your leadership content.

How to Build a B2B Lead Gen Webinar

How to Build a B2B Lead Gen Webinar

Generating leads for Sales to qualify, follow up with, and eventually sell to is what drives the revenue—and success—of a business. This article covers how webinars and webinar marketing can lead to increased B2B lead generation.

Want to Build Trust and Provide Value? Try Being Nice, and Helpful!

Want to Build Trust and Provide Value? Try Being Nice, and Helpful!

Everyone in marketing talks about providing value. It's become a bingo buzzword. Whatever happened to real value—honest-to-goodness help for someone with a specific problem?

ChatGPT and Jasper: Powerful Writing Tools or the End of Creativity?

ChatGPT and Jasper: Powerful Writing Tools or the End of Creativity?

Whether it's it's the start of the singularity or a fad that will fade like so many others, AI writing has taken the marketing world by storm. This article muses about whether human creativity is at stake.

The Future of Content Marketing: Five Predictions

The Future of Content Marketing: Five Predictions

If only it were possible to read tea leaves and divine exactly what the future holds for our beloved content marketing! But it's not, so Chad S. White offers his own compelling predictions.

Seven Top-Tier B2B Product Videos and Lessons We Can Learn From Them

Seven Top-Tier B2B Product Videos and Lessons We Can Learn From Them

Video marketing is becoming table stakes. But how do you highlight a product with video—without turning into Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White? Get schooled by watching these product videos.

Why Content, Not Customer Service, Is the Heart of Customer-Centricity

Why Content, Not Customer Service, Is the Heart of Customer-Centricity

Being a customer-centric company involves taking customer feedback and applying it, of course. But before you get to that point, you have to create content that is focused on what your customers want.

Color Wheel Theory: Your New SEO Content Framework

Color Wheel Theory: Your New SEO Content Framework

Content SEO can be overwhelming, especially when populating a website with relevant posts. Visualizing your pages as topic hierarchies, as in the color wheel theory framework, can help.

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