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Marketing isn't always the easy concept to grasp, and often times people who are looking to employ such tactics need to seek outside guidance. If you need help starting your marketing campaigns for your business, searching for a local marketing company will be beneficial to you.

The effects of an outstanding personalized experience can be amazing for users. If you are an avid Netflix watcher, you might already be feeling those warm and cozies you feel when Netflix is at the ready with other movies you may like based off of what you've already viewed. There's no need for you to browse title after title searching for a new movie to watch, because Netflix has already done that for you, wowzers.

Every content marketer is under constant pressure to produce some form of content. However, you can't just push out any old half written, half thought out article if you're looking to attract customers. There is a demand for high quality content, but high quality content can take a long time to create and you may not have the time to devote to do it.

What is Content Marketing?

Content marketing has become a great way to provide free content to customers in exchange for their attention. In fact content marketing has become such a popular option that 90% of organization market with content.

Basically, the goal of content marketing is to attract and retain customers by consistently creating and publishing relative, original, and creative content. Content can come in many different forms, like: blog articles, infographics, videos, podcasts, white papers, eBooks, and (many) more. By providing this information about your products and services to your prospective customers, they may in turn reward you with their business and loyalty.

By now, I'm sure you know about the immense power of inbound marketing. It has proven itself time and time again when it comes to increasing sales, traffic, and leads. Although inbound was designed to attract more prospects to your online presence, a great inbound marketing strategy can do so much more. With the right methods you can improve your businesses' credibility, brand awareness, engagement, and even your value to your customer.

 If you have ever managed a social media platform, then you know that there are times when things can go horribly, horribly, (did we say horribly?) wrong. You wake up, head to work, log in to your computer, and there it is. One of the unholiest of unholy posts you have ever seen. Your hands start to sweat, your blood pressure rises, and all you want to do is hide away in a dark cave where the internet can never find you.

It's no surprise that video marketing is gaining popularity ever since Youtube, Vine, Instagram, and other social media outlets made sharing and production so easy. Luckily for the marketing industry, video content can be a great way to capitalize on attracting new leads, connecting with your visitors, or engaging valued customers.

I have always believed that you’ll learn 10 times more about any subject through experience as opposed to a classroom, an article or a second-hand story. My time spent as an inbound marketing intern only reinforced that belief. There was almost too much to learn and I feel like I only scratched the surface, but here’s the big take-aways that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my career.

Traffic is something every internet marketer or blogger needs to survive online. It's not always kittens and rainbows, (although we'd like it to be) and sometimes you put a painstakingly enormous amount of time into a post only to find out nearly no one has viewed it. You have a stellar topic, an epic title and some solid content. So, where did it go wrong? The blogosphere is a big, busy world. With over 100 million blogs (and growing) it can be easy for your blog to go unnoticed.

Someone asked me the other day where I get my news from, and “Twitter” was my automatic response. While I still get the content from news-worthy sites like CNN or AP, it’s not like I’m combing their homepage anymore but rather clicking a quick link to exactly what I’m looking for. And I don’t have to search far for the public’s comments. Simply by exiting the article, I can see how my friends and even people I don’t know are responding to the story through Twitter as well. Since Twitter is acting as a “second screen” for me and many other consumers, brands should be aiming to become part of this social commentary and push out their messages to the millions of users using real-time marketing. And that’s exactly what Oreo is doing.