
Article by Michael Brenner
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How Content Marketing Directly Improves Sales
27 Oct 2020 in Content Marketing
For the past 10 years or more, I’ve been analyzing, strategizing, building, optimizing, and measuring the content marketing programs for companies in just about every industry and sector there is. In fact, in my last count, we have done fully customized content marketing strategy workshops for more than 80 different companies. Those workshops were all
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