Episode 52

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9th Jul 2018

EVM052 Content Marketing: What's Hot Now and What's Next with Chris Marr

In today's episode, we are talking all things content marketing with Chris Marr from Content Marketing Academy. We also dive into the world of video in this conversation. We talk about the idea of getting over the fear of video and using video strategically in order to drive sales.

Chris is the leading voice of the growing Content Marketing movement in the UK. His pioneering work has helped countless organisations grow through content marketing. His drive comes from a desire to help people break free from the world of interruptive marketing.

 

In this episode

  • What led Chris to content marketing
  • The definition of content marketing
  • What makes for good content marketing
  • How content lead to sales
  • What’s changed in content marketing over the last year
  • Where Chris sees most businesses struggling
  • Return on investment
  • What Chris thinks is next in content marketing.

 

Links mentioned in the show

Content Marketing Academy

CMA Live

Chris on Twitter

 

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Engage Video Marketing Podcast
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The Engage Video Marketing Podcast is a weekly show with a mission to grow confident Video Strategists. Each week your host, leading video strategist Ben Amos will share world-class guest interviews, video strategy training, latest social video trends, case studies tips and tactics to help develop in confidence as a Video Strategist to better serve your clients and grow businesses.

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Ben Amos

Ben is a passionate online video strategist, entrepreneur, video producer, speaker and educator working with savvy brands across Australia and the world to connect them to their ideal audiences through effective online video marketing. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Innovate Media, an online video strategy and production agency based out of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

As host of the Engage Video Marketing Podcast, and creator of the Online Video Strategy Blueprint Ben’s mission is to help other creatives, marketers, entrepreneurs and video producers better understand how to attract, engage and convert audiences online with video.

At the heart of it all, Ben believes that effective online video content has strategy at its core. As content producers, marketers or business owners we must rise up against the ‘avalanche of average’ video content surrounding digital audiences today and deploy video strategically, deliberately and creatively across platforms for maximum results.

Behind this, Ben’s a proud Dad of two daughters, a family guy and an adventurous Aussie who loves building sandcastles with his kids at any of the beautiful beaches of his home town on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.