Your Weekly Content Marketing Round-Up

This is my weekly round-up of useful content marketing related articles.

I spend time finding articles about the latest trends in content marketing that help you achieve your marketing goals so you don’t have to. 🙂

This article by Hubspot features 15 premier examples of effective landing pages explaining why each is so good at motivating users to take the desired call to action.

15 Examples of Fantastic Landing Pages @Hubspot

A key part of any social media marketing strategy is finding influential people in your industry. Attracting their attention can prove immensely valuable for boosting your bottom line. Identifying influencers and establishing beneficial connections with them is an effective way to engage your target audience. Influencer marketing is bound grow in importance in 2016:

Why You Need to Utilize Influencers in 2016 @Inc

Do you wish to promote your brand on Facebook, but have no budget to utilize any of the network’s paid options? Fear not. This article suggests 10 things you can do that don’t require money:

Top 10 Facebook Marketing Tactics When You Have No Budget @BoomSocialMktg

Content marketing experienced explosive growth in 2015 and it’s not slowing down. The state of content marketing in 2015 and where it’s likely to go in 2016:

The Content Strategist @Contently

If you’re an entrepreneur or a freelancer, here are 7 great books @Entrepreneur Magazine suggests you read: 7 Must-Read Books for the Budding Entrepreneur

Video marketing has experienced tremendous growth over the past year with video now accounting for over 70% of internet traffic in North America. This trend is expected to increase exponentially over the next few years and you need to be ready. Here are 12 affordable apps you can use to edit your videos for social media: 12 Budget-Friendly Video Editing Apps You Can Use For Social Video .

More information about predicted video marketing trends can be found here:

Top 5 Video Marketing Trends for 2016

Hope these links were helpful! If you have any useful articles related to brand blogging, inbound marketing, or content strategy, please feel free to share in the comments.

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