Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2017

How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. The daily alert went to my work inbox, which I monitored on the weekend only for urgent communications. Following the send-off episode on Dec.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. Christin shares her list of go-to tools for social analytics, internal communication, employee advocacy, and more. Be fearless.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Scandals and fake followers aren’t problems in the micro-influencer universe, but it’s critical to maintain an open line of communication with your micros. Set up clear and direct communication pathways to resolve complaints and respond to suggestions. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Even though the amazing CMI editorial team wanted me to write about marketing, I wrote this instead (ha). I graduated from Bowling Green State University (just south of Toledo, Ohio) with a degree in interpersonal communications. As I came close to graduation, I felt like sports marketing was something I’d be good at.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Virtual Reality Could Change Content Marketing. John is a renowned strategist, communicator, and cultural mythologist based in Hollywood. Are we kind of, nearly, almost there? johnkbucher Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But one thing that can make your decisions more straightforward is establishing a channel plan – an advanced directive for how your brand can and should distribute its content marketing efforts on rented channels like social media, and what you expect to achieve. Does it fit in with our editorial mission ? Image source.

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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

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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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.”. We all are a direct marketer at heart.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 26, 2018

Is there anything left to say about how to put together a content calendar? Between Content Marketing Institute writers and guest contributors, we’ve covered basic content calendar tips (including templates and examples) thoroughly over the years. A content calendar by any other name. How will you know?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s a distinction that most content marketers are familiar with – especially if it’s your job to spin rough, disorganized insights and ideas into high-performing content gold. Content Marketing Strategy Essentials. Turn Your Strategy Into a Stellar Editorial Content Plan. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 9, 2018

No matter how much time and care you put into building your strategy, outlining your editorial plans and processes, or crafting persuasive, engaging, high-quality copy, your brand’s potential for success often lives or dies by your distribution and promotion choices. Content Marketing Strategy Essentials.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT : Thinking of Creating Original Research? Click To Tweet.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If you work in a big, established company, a presentation on being a marketer on a small team, especially a small team in a startup, may not seem to apply to you. For most of his 15-plus years in marketing, Vishal has been his organization’s only resource for marketing, communications, and media relations. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 6, 2018

Unless today is your first day as a content marketer, you’re aware of how essential a documented strategy is to achieving content marketing success. But let’s face it: Not all of us have a direct part to play in crafting or controlling our company’s strategic, high-level view of content. joderama Click To Tweet.

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Moz

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Posted by acarlisle Over the past six years, our team at Fractl has studied the art of mastering content marketing press coverage. We gathered all 70 campaigns closed out of our digital PR team’s pipelines in the second and third quarters of 2018 with pitch counts below 70 and determined the average of each metric.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Remember while it’s tempting to pour all your content team’s energies and resources into the next big thing to hit the digital marketplace, sustainable, long-term success with content marketing first requires a mastery of the fundamentals. Content marketing strategy tips and tools. Choose a content business model.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 28, 2019

? ?. In case you haven’t noticed – over the years here at CMI we’ve spent quite a few brain cells and digital ink defining and defending the approach of content marketing as a separate and distinct methodology to influence customer behavior. 1 Google result to the question “what is content marketing.” Click To Tweet.

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CoSchedule

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Orbit Media Studios Lots of marketing agencies invest in content that demonstrates their expertise and capabilities. link] covers practical tips for content marketing, analytics, and web design. Musician’s Friend’s blog, The HUB , is a fantastic example of content marketing done right.

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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! Related: What Is Brand Marketing? Or, you might keep it all online with social media and content marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 6, 2018

What if you could ask today’s influential online marketers one question: “What social media tool is your all-time, desert-island, can’t-live-without favorite?”. What follows are – by any list or metric – 51 big names in online marketing, content marketing, and e-commerce along with their top social-media tool and reason for loving it.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing. And content marketing is neither of those things. Successful #contentmarketing integrates changes to make content function as a business model.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

So, as an editorial team, we have changed the headline and image accordingly to hopefully better reflect our aim with the post. Our aim is to highlight new, optimal internal business models for content marketing and use the innovations of the moving assembly line as a metaphor for that. Robert_Rose Click To Tweet.

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