Savvy financial marketing coupled with ongoing development of customer products is the solution to the rapidly declining number of millennials who have a traditional bank as their primary financial institution.

Novella or novel, which length is right for your target audience? That’s the question you have to ask yourself before creating a new piece of content. Short-form types of content marketing play a key role in engaging viewers and boiling down complex information into digestible portions.

The call to action (CTA) is the secret sauce for B2B lead generation. If your CTAs aren’t effective at capturing people’s attention and persuading them to click, then it makes the offer useless, which stalls your lead generation and sales efforts.

Love it or hate it, social media has taken a lead role in utility communications.

Utility social media accounts represent a fast, nimble communication channel, able to transform utilities from slow-moving, reactive behemoths to proactive, responsive communicators.

Inbound marketing. At Jacobs & Clevenger, it’s a way of life for our digital and content marketing teams, the heart of our demand and lead generation strategies, which is why we once again attended HubSpot’s Inbound marketing event. Calling Inbound 2015 a conference is too tame a word. From best-selling author Seth Godin to comedians Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer, the event was chock full of inspiring content and educational lessons for marketers and sales teams who want to move to the next step (whatever that may be).

A well-optimized landing page is the cornerstone of a content strategy and the backbone to a website. This seemingly simple web form allows a company to capture a visitor’s information, typically in exchange for information in the form of an ebook, video, kit, etc.

They are known as the digital generation, Generation Y, the Net Generation or, more popularly, Millennials. These digital natives are the inspiration behind countless articles.

It’s undeniable. Video marketing is The It Girl of 2015. And just like any 21st century It Girl, video is getting a lot of attention on the Internet.

Do different types of content lead to different types of engagement? You bet they do. Not every piece of content is created equal, and they shouldn’t be.

All too often, demand generation and lead generation are lumped together when they should be treated as equally important, yet unique partners in a content marketing strategy. The confusion often derives from the similarities between the two, yet while they appear very much alike, the two are actually very different — much like two siblings battling it out for attention.