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If you're in the business of creating content for marketing, you know it's sometimes tough to keep coming up with original, interactive content week after week.

One way to find great content without making it yourself? Contests.

Neil Patel has written a great article about using contests to create user-generated content.

Hop on over and check it out!

Our friends over at Contently have again written a great article on the “Dos & Don’ts of Brand Video”. It’s a great article that touches on many misconceptions that business owners have when it comes to branded video. Too often, business owners or managers think that just because it’s a video, people will respond well. The process of turning an average video into a great one is more difficult than it seems.

Want to read the 6 Dos & Don’ts of Brand Video?

IWC is proud to feature BonAero, a company that manages logistics for aerospace and defense companies. We recently launched their website, complete with a great logo design, unique subpages, and great content creation! Not to toot our own horn, but we think it’s pretty neat and wanted to share it with you.

We styled the logo to reflect the logo design of Boneal, its parent company (which we also designed!).

The folks over at Leadfeeder have put together a great article about strategies to convert visitors to your site into interested potential clients.

If you're interested, click here to read the article: How to Convert Website Visitors into Leads

You may already be active in your social media marketing with Facebook or LinkedIn, but is it worth branching out to Twitter?

Well, as always, that depends. There are a lot of things you should consider before diving in, and we mean it when we say every business is different. But we made this post to help you find out if Twitter is right for you.

In general, you should branch out to Twitter if you can answer “Yes” to two or more of these questions.

Contently.com is back at it again with another great article on social media marketing. They highlight four common misconceptions that can negatively impact all the effort you put in to your posts. It's a great reminder about what really matters in marketing; the end result, not just the upfront metrics.

If you'd like to read the article, click here!

If you’re DIYing your design work, you know it’s tough to make sure your visuals really do appeal. This great article by Midori Nediger of Venngage gives three great tips that you can apply to your work today, whether you’re designing a social media post or an E-book cover! Check it out here:

https://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/06/design-tips-nondesigners/

Let's take a multiple choice quiz.

It’s almost the 4th of July, and that means you probably:

a) Have a ton of work to finish before Wednesday

b) Are super excited for the fireworks and fun

c) Need to come up with an awesome social media post & email campaign for the 4th of July

d) All of the above!

The IWC Team picked d, and to help out others in the same boat as we are, we decided to come up with this post to help you promote your business on the 4th of July!

But first, as always, some statistics.

Customer journeys (also known as customer journey maps) are an incredible tool for online marketers. They give the prospect the exact information they need to lead them down the sales pipelines, when they need it. It’s often an automated process, so you can deliver targeted materials with a push of a button!

Here’s how journeys work:

If you're continually improving your brand's presence online, you know about the impact of social media. And like us, you are probably constantly evaluating your strategy to make sure it's up to speed. Our friends over at Sprout Social have created a great infographic checklist to help businesses see where they need to grow or what they want to focus on. Check it out!