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Buyer’s Guide to the Best Content Marketing Books of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

If you’re looking for a holiday gift book to advance the recipient’s content marketing skills, I have good news. During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Drivers of content marketing. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Aha,” I said.

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4 Secrets of Great Storytellers

Content Marketing Institute

You probably never hear anyone reply: “I studied content marketing as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places, says @EditorStahl. storytelling Click To Tweet. Great storytellers collaborate. But that’s OK.

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

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Natalya Minkovsky found and shared some of the best in each issue of Chief Content Officer magazine. Here are 11 models she shared in her Idea Garage column in 2018: Velcro® entertains to promote trademark ( February ). HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Is Your Brand Breaking the Law on Social Media? Don’t write “velcro.”

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Go Behind the Scenes of Coca-Cola’s Storytelling

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Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Do You Know Your Why? Your Content Marketing Success Depends on It. CCO: Which content creators inspire you?

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How to Unite Brand Storytelling and Marketing Tech

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“My media relations team built our first bot,” says Heather Whaling, CEO and founder of Geben Communication, who presented Acting Like Technologists to Improve Content Strategy at the 2018 Intelligent Content Conference. “If But at the end of the day, content marketing is storytelling ,” Heather says. “We

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How to Win at Content Marketing [New Playbook]

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To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. Every creative asset you produce needs to be supported by strategic decisions – from crafting ideas into a cohesive message to selecting the content types and distribution formats that let your ideas work their magic.

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How Voice-Activated Tech Will Change Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Here are a few data points about the impact voice-centric digital communication is having on consumers – and how marketers are responding: 55% of adults will have a smart speaker by 2022, per OC&C Strategy Consultants , more than doubling the nearly 20% of U.S. Read: Is Voice Search the Future of Content Marketing?