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A Content Marketing Love Letter

Content Marketing Institute

She said she absolutely loved the blog and felt like she found her calling around content marketing. She’d been doing content marketing for years but called it something else. The content marketing blog I started in April 2007 was really taking off, and the audience was anything but shy. Click To Tweet.

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The Zen of Content Marketing: Higher Consciousness, Better Performance

Content Marketing Institute

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 6 Steps to Find the Perfect Content Marketing Pro. How to Build a Content Marketing Practice in a Year: Lessons From Monster. Unfetter your thinking before you make editorial plans. As marketers, we may feel forced to run campaigns to meet established monthly sales goals.

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How Content Marketing Became Brand’s Trusted, Unified Source

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Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. Content is never just content. Today, he’s the senior manager of brand strategy.

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Sample 11 of the Best B2B and B2C Content Marketing Ideas of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

Moleskine is no stranger to imaginative extensions of its brand; in 2016, the company opened the Moleskine Café – equal parts coffee shop, retail space, and art gallery – in Milan, where the Italian company is headquartered. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration.

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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

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Do tons more to drive leads, our team decided unanimously back in 2016. Up until that point, we merely invited readers to consume our blog content, which focused on the latest social media trends. Even if we wanted to use in-your-face dropdowns begging for an address, we had no special content to offer.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

Content Marketing Institute

In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. This is a sure sign iQ content is paying off.

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The 1-2-3-4 Strategy to Drive Leads From Instagram

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A post shared by Shining Hope for Communities (@shofco) on Jun 27, 2016 at 7:13am PDT. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 4 Tips for Engaging Instagram Content [Examples]. 37+ Tips and Tools for Picture-Perfect Visual Content. What better place to build relationships with other content marketers than Content Marketing Word 2018.