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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School and DocSend examined 34 million interactions between customers and content on DocSend’s platform. The result is empirical data and a good starting point for examining core aspects of any content marketing initiative.

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Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School and DocSend examined 34 million interactions between customers and content on DocSend’s platform. The result is empirical data and a good starting point for examining core aspects of a content marketing initiative. If you can’t track what prospects read, when, where, and for how long, you have a blind spot in a big part of your marketing budget and are unlikely to get the ROI possible with this approach. Read more

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