How Can Your Brand Prepare for a Successful AEO Era?

This is the third installment in DeanHouston’s three-part series exploring how AEO is changing the way companies market their products and services. Change often creates winners and losers. Evolving your marketing strategy to capitalize on Answer Engine Optimization positions your industrial company as an authoritative, go-to resource and attracts high-intent leads even before you get…

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What’s the Relationship between SEO and AEO During the New Age of Search?

This is the second installment in DeanHouston’s three-part series exploring how AEO is changing the way companies market their products and services. View our high-level overview of AEO or learn the tactics to increase the likelihood you’ll be featured prominently in AEO. Digital marketing often feels like a moving target. First, it was all about…

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Answer Engine Optimization Is Causing a Seismic Shift in How Your Customers Search

This is the first installment in DeanHouston’s three-part series exploring how AEO is changing the way companies market their products and services. Industrial sales funnels thrive on informed decisions. For years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been a primary tool for getting your audience to start their research with you. Companies climbed on top of…

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Tips for Creating Content that Attracts High-Quality Employees

While retaining current employees remains a high priority for organizations in major industries, companies are also focusing their attention on attracting high-quality candidates who are searching for long-lasting careers. But what’s the best approach to finding these potential employees who belong within your organization’s culture and also plan to stay with your company for a…

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From Buzzing to Bothering: The Story on Push Notifications

BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ. Hold up, you only took your eyes off your phone for a few moments, HOW ON EARTH did you get that many notifications!? Between your group chats, your significant other sending you 20 TikToks on their lunch break, and all of your apps’ push notifications, it doesn’t…

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What is Data-Driven Storytelling?

The spreadsheets, the graphs and all of those countless numbers – data can feel so painfully boring at times. But from performance reviews and marketing strategies to financial projections, data is essential for the growth and success of any business. So how can you share the valuable data that your employees, customers and investors care…

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Selling With Trust: The Power of Publicity

There’s that advertisement again. You’ve seen it countless times. It’s emotional, persuasive and memorable. It hits all the marks: demonstrates what makes the product special, how it can benefit your life and why you need it as soon as possible. So why haven’t you made the purchase yet? It’s because the advertisement is paid for…

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How Can Infographics be Part of Your Content Marketing Plan?

Anybody who has ever put together furniture knows the value of words and pictures working together as one. And in a world where attention spans are like an endangered species, an infographic can be a wonderful tool to quickly get information across in a digestible way. With that in mind, here’s an infographic about infographics….

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Servitization: How Good Communication Turns Into Revenue

The line between product and service continues to blur by the day. That’s even true in the traditionally slow-changing world of manufacturing. The days of “all we do is make things,” is slowly changing into a mindset of capturing post-sale revenue through service offerings. Servitization in manufacturing is all the rage now, and that’s because…

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An “Abridged” Look into the B2B Content Evolution

B2B marketing changes just as much as anything else. Despite what you might think, that change did not slow throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, we thought the world would come to a grinding halt. While true for some aspects of life and business, this halt didn’t apply across the board. B2B marketing…

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Do Androids Dream of Creating Content?

Imagine a future where artificially intelligent robots can analyze and replicate human behavior so perfectly that the robots themselves begin to believe they are actually human. This advanced technology would eventually make humans question whether they themselves are not simply robots programmed to believe they are human. Pretty trippy, right? This is the dystopian future…

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