{"id":509,"date":"2017-09-19T09:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T09:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salezshark.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2023-10-12T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:01:26","slug":"content-marketing-the-humble-beginning-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salezshark.com\/blog\/content-marketing-the-humble-beginning-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Marketing: The Humble Beginning and Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill Gates definitely struck gold when he famously quoted \u2018Content is King\u2019 in 1996. What he and also the world couldn\u2019t fathom was the rise of the humble content to being highly regarded as one of the best ways to build a brand. The power of words has surely surpassed the mere scale of imagination to reach an apogee of creation in mankind as we remain awestruck in its power to gather leads, drive sales and in turn, empower lives. The advent of the internet has certainly spurred it, although content marketing is as old as time itself. So, if we had to build a timeline, it would probably look like the one below:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>1993 \u2013 The birth of e-book<\/span><\/h2>
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