This step-by-step marketing approach makes it ever so easy to apply content marketing concepts. Take your content marketing skills to the next level with this comprehensive handbook. Inside, you'll find everything you need to know to develop and execute a successful content marketing strategy, including identifying your target audience, creating compelling content, and distributing it effectively. Then, with case studies and real-world examples, you'll be equipped to create and distribute content that engages and converts your target audience.

How do you translate your business objectives into a digital marketing strategy? What are today's best practices for content marketing, email marketing, social media and online advertising? What is the practical use for new technologies like Augmented and Virtual Reality, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and chatbots? Digital Marketing like a PRO is an easy to follow, step-by-step marketing guide that helps you maximize all digital channels. Packed with models, information and examples to help you succeed, it is free of fluff and noise so you can get to work quickly. Whether you're new to marketing or a long-time professional seeking to boost your skills, this digital marketing handbook will help you save time, energy and resources as you learn from tested industry models and best practices.

This book is for entrepreneurs and the leaders of B2B businesses who want to use content marketing to bring a predictable stream of qualified leads into their sales cycles, and need a replicable system to make it happen.This book provides that system - a step-by-step process that can be executed in any business to generate qualified leads and more conversions with content marketing.In Content That Converts, you'll learn:- How to get clear on your audience, offers and messaging (and why those three elements are so important)- How to develop a recurring content system, and how to create long-form content assets (such as books and courses) that establish you as an industry leader- How to distribute your content effectively with email and SEO, to expand your reach and create conversion opportunities that translate to sales- How to hone your conversion potential over time with the principles of influence and market sophistication, and how to write powerful sales copy as a result"Laura is a content machine that pumps out excellence onto paper."Jeff Root, SellTermLife and #1 Amazon Bestseller"Using your strategies, we're getting more sales and people are much more engaged. Good work!"Scott Desgrosseilliers, Wicked Reports"Laura has a great ability to draw out the nuances of how things are done in any business. Her writing is fantastic and the delivery is spot on."Tristan King, owner of Blackbelt Commerce, top-rated Shopify agency in the world

How do you translate your business objectives into a digital marketing strategy? What are today's best practices for content marketing, email marketing, social media and online advertising? What is the practical use for new technologies like Augmented and Virtual Reality, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and chatbots? Digital Marketing like a PRO is an easy to follow, step-by-step marketing guide that helps you maximize all digital channels. Packed with models, information and examples to help you succeed, it is free of fluff and noise so you can get to work quickly. Whether you're new to marketing or a long-time professional seeking to boost your skills, this digital marketing handbook will help you save time, energy and resources as you learn from tested industry models and best practices.

***CIM (CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MARKETING) BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2016*** Content marketing just got easier Content marketing is one of today's growing marketing trends following fast on the heels of social media. It is marketing through creating and sharing content that potential customers find relevant, useful and valuable in order to attract, engage, convert and retain them. It's a strategy that requires careful thought, clear objectives and goals, and a deep understanding of your audience. It requires you to reach out to them with well-planned and well-produced content - in all forms and formats, offline as well as online. In this book we take a joined-up look at content marketing, the key principles that underpin it, and what it takes to put it into practice in a consistent and fully formed way. And we provide a practical framework for planning it and executing it successfully - whatever the size of your business or your marketing team. Adopting a content marketing approach is certainly not a short term, quick win tactic. But the chances are it could make a big difference to the effectiveness of your marketing. - Sunday: Adopt a content marketing mindset - Monday: Understand the different types of content - Tuesday: Develop your content marketing strategy - Wednesday: Get started with content planning - Thursday: Create compelling content - Friday: Get ready to share - Saturday: Learn how to measure success

The NEW Rulebook for Entrepreneurial Success What’s the surest way to startup failure? Follow old, outdated rules. In Content Inc., one of today’s most sought-after content-marketing strategists reveals a new model for entrepreneurial success. Simply put, it’s about developing valuable content, building an audience around that content, and then creating a product for that audience. Notice a shift? Author Joe Pulizzi flips the traditional entrepreneurial approach of first creating a product and then trying to find customers. It’s a brilliant reverse-engineering of a model that rarely succeeds. The radical six-step business-building process revealed in this book is smart, simple, practical, and cost-effective. And best of all, it works. It’s a strategy Pulizzi used to build his own successful company, Content Marketing Institute, which has landed on Inc. magazine’s list of fastest growing private companies for three years straight. It’s also a strategy countless other entrepreneurs use to build their own multi-million dollar companies. Build an audience and you’ll be able to sell pretty much anything you want. Today’s markets are more dynamic and customers are more fickle than ever before. Why would you put all your eggs in one basket before securing a loyal customer base? Content Inc. shows you how to get customers first and develop products later. It’s the best way to build a solid, long-lasting business positioned for today’s content-driven world. This is the simple but profoundly successful entrepreneurial approach of one of today’s most creative business minds. A pioneer of content marketing, Pulizzi has cracked to code when it comes to the power of content in a world where marketers still hold fast to traditional models that no longer work. In Content Inc., he breaks down the business-startup process into six steps, making it simple for you to visualize, launch, and monetize your own business. These steps are: • The “Sweet Spot”: Identify the intersection of your unique competency and your personal passion • Content Tilting: Determine how you can “tilt” your sweet spot to find a place where little or no competition exists • Building the Base: Establish your number-one channel for disseminating content (blog, podcast, YouTube, etc.) • Harvesting Audience: Use social-media and SEO to convert one-time visitors into long-term subscribers • Diversification: Grow your business by expanding into multiple delivery channels • Monetization: Now that your expertise is established, you can begin charging money for your products or services This model has worked wonders for Pulizzi and countless other examples detailed in the book. Connect these six pieces like a puzzle, and before you know it, you’ll be running your own profitable, scalable business. Pulizzi walks you step by step through the process, based on his own success (and failures) and real-world multi-million dollar examples from multiple industries and countries. Whether you’re seeking to start a brand-new business or drive innovation in an existing one, Content Inc. provides everything you need to reverse-engineer the traditional entrepreneurial model for better, more sustainable success. Joe Pulizzi is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, and podcaster. He is the founder of several startups, including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), recognized as the fastest growing business media company by Inc. magazine in 2014. CMI produces Content Marketing World, the world’s largest content marketing event, and publishes the leading content marketing magazine, Chief Content Officer. Pulizzi’s book Epic Content Marketing was named one of Fortune magazine’s Five Must Read Business Books of the Year.

From generating ideas to gaining your first paying customers. This is the bootstrapper's bible for launching your next product. 1. Why validation isn't the answer 2. How to evaluate your business idea 3. How to choose a business name fast 4. How to build a website in 1 day for under $100 5. 10 proven ways to market a business quickly