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Content Won't Convert Without Calls-To-Action | Marketing Technology Blog

Content Won't Convert Without Calls-To-Action | Marketing Technology Blog | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Each month the Marketing Technology Blog would generate a great handful of leads for sponsorships, advertising and consulting opportunities. As the site continues to grow in popularity, though, we weren’t seeing a subsequent increase in leads.


I had finally had it – I analyzed the site and reviewed where our calls-to-actions were throughout. It’s something we pay a lot of attention on with our clients but I had failed to review our own strategies for well-placed call-to-actions.There are 3 typical placements for your calls-to-action on any given page within your site...

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Great advice to help you get better response from your blogging.

Catherine Monahan's curator insight, June 14, 2013 2:25 PM

No call to action = No reaction

Andrew Federici's curator insight, June 14, 2013 2:49 PM

CTA placement and language are so important.  Can't get enough of testing on this.

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How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog, 5 Tips | Social Media Examiner

How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog, 5 Tips | Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Business blogging: learn how businesses with top marketing blogs generate leads with social media and content marketing....

 

Does your business have a blog? Would you like your blog to bring in more leads for your business? You already know you need to create awesome blog content, but there’s more to business blogging than just that. You also need to include a few tactics to help you bring in the leads you want. Here are some useful tactics to entice and capture leads used by top marketing business blogs!...

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Several useful tips on how to use your blog to create leads. Blogging is more than an awareness tool.

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7 Questions for Creating Content That Actually Matters | Business 2 Community

7 Questions for Creating Content That Actually Matters | Business 2 Community | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

This is not a blog post about writing. This is a blog post about creation. Creating content that actually matters. If you’re writing to increase conversion rates, then, yes, SEO matters. Proper grammar matters. Page layout matters. Verbal flourish might matter.

 

But those are all details – aspects of content writing that come only after you’ve answered the more fundamental questions. Whether you’re developing a content strategy for the first time or you’ve been writing to increase those conversion rates for years, it’s time to touch on some fundamentals. Before whipping up that next blog post, ask yourself these seven questions, and start creating content that actually impacts your audience!...

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Seven great questions that will help PR and marketing create content that means something to readers.

Yu Ji's curator insight, May 16, 2013 6:07 AM

Very interesting post. Teaching you how to create rather than write the content.  Also, these strategies of developing a content contibute both to the fundamentals and the specific conversation rate increase.

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Business Blogging: The Social Engagement and Revenue Driver Sweet Spot

Business Blogging: The Social Engagement and Revenue Driver Sweet Spot | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Don't blog in the dark. If your business has a blog, these simple steps help you set conversion goals and measure and track them with Google Analytics. First understand that blogging is an awareness channel, positioned at the top of the conversion funnel. Conversions assigned to the blog should be things that create another connection between you and the audience, like a newsletter sign-up or Facebook like. The goal of the blog is to have people actively choose to connect with you elsewhere, a position that will put you at the customer’s top of mind when a need for your product or service surfaces. A 2011 State of the Blogosphere report from Technorati Media surveyed bloggers, and the results of the question, “How do you measure the success of your blog?” saw a variety of responses....
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