Marketing Trends: a case for creating your own content over advertising

Marketing is changing at an incredibly rapid pace. As the web evolves and the economy remains sluggish, savvy marketers are creating their own content on blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to build buzz, online traffic and brand loyalty at a fraction of the cost. This technique of reaching customers and prospects directly by publishing content, is known as content marketing.

It’s clear that content is a big trend for brand marketing. Here are significant stats on this trend from the Content Marketing Institute:

• 59% of marketers have used custom content/media as part of their marketing efforts in the last 12 months, with an additional 32% planning to use it in the next 12 months. (Source)
  
• 93% of marketing professionals create, or plan to create content marketing as part of their overall programs in the next year. (Source)
  
• Marketers believe content marketing is 18 times more effective in actually determining ROI than traditional advertising (74% to 4%). (Source)
  
• 70% of marketers spent more on content marketing over the last three years (Source)

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