Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Workflow automation: IFTTT. Cost: Free.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2017

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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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Brands Use Pop-Up Experiences to Make a Lasting Impression. Create shows, raid for content.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. Conducting content experiments. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Content Influences the Purchasing Process: Tips for Content Marketers [Research]. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Confused About Agile Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 9, 2018

And yet here we are, well into 2018, still waiting for it to fully materialize. John Bucher, virtual reality producer and consultant, makes the case for trying the medium even if it’s not fully ready for prime time, with examples of brands actively experimenting. CCO: How do you feel about the ways brands have used VR to date?

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2019

Examples from 2018 Content Marketer of the Year finalists were so inspiring they stayed with me. Now I hope you steal at least one of these ideas – and then make it grand for your brand. B2B marketers may assume stories touching people’s hearts abound for their B2C counterparts but are scarce in their industry.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

Instagram presents a huge problem for brands. Still, it makes sense to brand your profile with a clear and attractive logo. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Outperform Fortune 500 Brands on Instagram [Research]. To do this for your brand, you can easily set up a landing page like Foundr’s using a tool like Leadpages.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle. CCO: What is micro-influencer marketing? They’re genuine fans who engage with the brand. Burns: Our micro-influencer program seeks superfans of Tom’s of Maine.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 1, 2021

Another popular use of YouTube is to learn and get more information about products and brands via product reviews. That’s what a post from the Think With Google platform , a source for market trend insights, shows. Videos are known as a content format that offers quick consumption as its main advantage. Explainer Videos.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2018

On the surface, author Rohit Bhargava’s observation in the keynote talk of CMI’s virtual ContentTECH this year doesn’t bode well for content marketing. After all, to attract and retain an audience, we need people to believe the content we’re creating. Grace Bonney (@designsponge) March 15, 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How 3 Serious Brands Engage Humanly on Social Media. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An Easy-to-Apply Framework to Build Your (New or Mature) Content Marketing Team. People have a misconception about what it means to be a marketing expert. Social media really is for socializing.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. Either way, you’re probably curious about what it looks like for a brand to run a media organization. Did it happen? Think of your portfolio of media companies.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

? ?. Editor’s note: Given the ongoing need for brands to use social media strategically, we are sharing this article updated from its original publication last year. Concerned about how Facebook’s latest algorithm updates might affect your brand’s performance on the platform? You’re not alone. joderama Click To Tweet. Think precision.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 2018

Ready to take your content marketing expertise to the next level? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. All the content about blenders, microwaves, food processors, etc., HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Create Pillar Content Google Will Love.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Credited to Jay Geiger, who first wrote about it in 2006 , the term “clickbait” earned a place in The Oxford English Dictionary in 2016 with this definition: “(on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.”. It isn’t shouty but deliberately ambiguous.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you want results with less effort – and it makes sense for your audiences – think about localized markets. Building a multi-language content marketing team doesn’t require a huge budget, but it requires some thought and planning. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Building Your Content Marketing Team?

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Moz

AUGUST 7, 2019

Posted by Gaetano-DiNardi-NYC Disclaimer: I’m currently the Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva , and writing this case study post-mortem as the former VP of Marketing at Sales Hacker (Jan. Every B2B company is investing in content marketing right now. January 2017–June 2018. 2017 - Sept. Organic Growth Highlights.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 25, 2018

In 2015, I arrived in Cleveland for Content Marketing World in good health and good spirits, full of energy and excitement about the week to come. Within 12 hours, I personally learned some lessons about the role health care content marketing can and should play in the lives of consumers. My content checkup.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 24, 2018

You can find the content you’re looking for without having to dig for it. Think of Colgate’s gum disease resource page as the top of the mountain – a pillar of content like the one you aim to create for your brand. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Reasons SEO Should Take a Back Seat With Website Content.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 12, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 3 Aha Moments to Improve Your Content Marketing in 2018. In any case, tone deaf content addresses the user in a way that comes across as too familiar, insensitive, or just plain weird. She felt like the brand was letting her know that it tracked her purchases. Flabby content.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For instance, you can have your creative department working on your artwork while editorial hashes out the content calendar and you reach out to potential guests. grew by 17 million people from 2018 to 2019. Would it: Raise awareness of your brand? But some branded podcasts aren’t so direct in their approach.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Ready or not, 2018 is on its way. If you happened to catch our collection of content marketing predictions for the upcoming year, you may think you’re in for a bumpy ride. They can help you tackle your usual tasks with less effort, so you can conserve your time and energy to prepare for whatever surprises 2018 might bring.

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Intergrowth

MARCH 5, 2023

If you’re look for an agency to create content and track all of the analytics so you can see how it’s performing, give us a call — that’s exactly what our content marketing team does! Anything that influences the public’s perception of your company is a component of your brand identity.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We know how important content promotion is today so we’ve updated it to reflect some new tools and some older favorites. I produce a lot of content. Not for the fun of it (although I genuinely enjoy most of it), but because I want it to increase awareness of my personal brand, drive traffic to my site, and generate leads.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Road Map to Success: Content Distribution Essentials That Win Eyeballs. 19 Favorite Tools for Content Promotion in 2018. Involve influencers in content promotion early. Most content marketers are familiar with influencer outreach. Contribute to content sharing communities.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

“It’s 2018. shared that nugget of wisdom at the recent Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas. Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Yet it risked losing market share to competitors that more openly shared insights ­on news that affects investment decisions. Create a content brand: Capital Ideas.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

And there’s a good chance they’ll rely on techniques like content marketing to help them reach that goal. Of course, content marketers who work at a company that’s achieved enterprise status understand the pursuit of growth never ends; it just plays out on a much larger and more complicated field of dreams.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

As content marketers, we are always reminded of the need to focus on our audience and their needs. In a way, this relationship gives each marketer the privilege of mentoring consumers by the thousands. Document your content marketing mission statement.”. Pam Didner , author, Global Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s because Robert’s columns challenge me to think beyond how to do a content marketing task and even beyond how to do things better. Instead, he makes me think about why we content marketers do what we do and about the role of content , the job of content marketing, and what success really feels like.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

I doubt any marketing team can perfect its SEO and content marketing efforts. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. Time spent on a page matters with SEO and content marketing. Generally, you want people to visit and make their way to other content pages.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

But while your Google Home pods, face ID-enabled iPhones, wearable fitness trackers, 3D printers, and the like might be fun and games now, there’s serious power behind those tools – power that enhances the performance of your content marketing efforts, makes them easier to produce, and makes them more enticing to your audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Clearly, you’ll be in good company if you “steal” the content marketing ideas in this column. In fact, it’s becoming a tradition (and some might say a stolen idea) for CMI to offer cool tips gathered from some of the hottest marketing talents in the business. This year we steal from the Content Marketer of the Year finalists.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Each year, CMI founder Joe Pulizzi covers the essential roles you need on your content marketing team. It’s one of those posts that is consistently well received because it hits a nerve: Whom do you need on your team to make content marketing work in your organization? Editorial planning. Maturity level.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Marketers seeking to learn through recent books suffer from an embarrassment of riches. A search of Amazon.com for “marketing books” returns 324,225 titles. Narrow the search to “content marketing books” and 2,736 options appear. Content marketing success requires making the right decisions over and over.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

1 seed Virginia), I offer six basketball-tournament inspirations for your content marketing strategy. billion expected to be wagered in 2018. Take a page for your content marketing playbook. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your CEO Needs These 4 Content Marketing Metrics. Build a bracket.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Create an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog. In the second week of January 2018, we’re launching a free course on ProBlogger with the goal of equipping as many new bloggers as possible to get started with great foundations for profitable blogs. Facebook Group. Erin Chase. Should You Blog Anonymously or Use Your Real Name?

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