Content marketing relies on providing information (content) that solves problems and builds trust with prospects and existing customers alike.
While you’ll find an ever-growing number of definitions of content marketing as its popularity expands, Junta 42 offers one of the most succinct:
“Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience—with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”
The marketing technique and driving profitable customer action require no further explanation. But other parts of the definition deserve a closer look.
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