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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

Content Marketing Institute

In early 2017, the iQ team borrowed a page from the traditional media playbook – focusing on sustaining loyal readers rather than a “more eyeballs” approach. Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. Distribution of your content, particularly with paid media, is also not that hard to do initially.

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The Zen of Content Marketing: Higher Consciousness, Better Performance

Content Marketing Institute

When marketers come up against frustrations, for example, Robert has a way of reframing their situations in such a way that new opportunities – for the individual and for the company – emerge. October 7, 2017) edition, Robert relates his conversation with a marketing director who was considering quitting his job.

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5 Steps to Strategically Reboot Your Brand’s Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Use Your About Us Page to Connect With Customers [Examples]. Road Map to Success: Content Marketing Strategy Essentials. Sophisticated marketers also consider web navigation and audience experiences across the business’s offerings. REI (@REI) November 24, 2017. Brand voice.

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Content Marketer of the Year Shares the REI Story

Content Marketing Institute

These are just a few of the characteristics we look for when selecting the finalists for CMI’s Content Marketer of the Year award. Paolo Mottola, managing editor at REI Co-op and the 2017 Content Marketer of the Year, has demonstrated again and again how content can drive more than interest and engagement – it can drive action.

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How to Get Content Marketing Wrong? Think Like a PR Person

Content Marketing Institute

If you want to be taken seriously as a content marketer, stop acting like a member of the PR team. If you want to show that content marketing is a distinct contributor to business results, stop using only PR metrics. Sure, public relations and content marketing are overlapping fields, but they’re not the same.

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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.

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5 Research-Based Actions to Improve Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Because understanding what your fellow marketers are doing and what’s happening in successful content marketing programs is critical to success, Lisa Murton Beets has updated her 2017 article. Or, maybe you need some great stats to help you build your business case for content marketing.