Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 23, 2018

Almost all B2C and 96% of B2B brands rely on internal resources to execute their content marketing program. These in-house providers range from small or centralized teams serving the entire organization to individuals leading department efforts. But what makes a team exceptional? It is all in how you grow it. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

I never thought I could use it to build an audience. Then I came across a blog post describing how an online publication drove leads and built a multimillion-dollar business from Instagram. As for the drip email campaigns, you can use email marketing tools like MailChimp (free and paid versions) or Constant Contact.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. Companies incorporating video content in their marketing strategy see 41% more search traffic than businesses without video, according to an Aberdeen study shared by HubSpot. Give your audience more reasons to convert. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

Christin Kardos leads social media for Convince and Convert, an organization that teaches marketers how to be socially savvy. As marketers and businesspeople, we know social presents tremendous opportunities for business … but when it’s used only as a broadcast channel, you’re failing to make connections. Essential social mindset.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

Define your audience. Figure out who you are trying to connect with and ask yourself whether you have the expertise or credibility to satisfy that audience. As with any content marketing initiative, avoid the one-and-done approach. Now consider which platform(s) make the most sense for your audience and business needs.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Regardless of whether those syndicated articles find the eyeballs or languish on pages unseen, one segment of the audience sees everything: search engines. Click To Tweet. SEO Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Only after I heard Paul Roetzer’s Content Marketing World talk did I realize that my experience represented exactly that: artificial intelligence at work. If you take away only one thing from this post, let it be Paul’s mantra: “Try it!”. Try #artificialintelligence in your B2B marketing and don’t wait, says @PaulRoetzer.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Our content was too academic and didn’t resonate with our audience. When we focused on making it more readable for our audience, business grew. Content marketers deliver a wealth of ideas and information, but it’s not always presented in the best way. Poor readability is a signal that you’re not looking after your audience.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 24, 2019

The massive amounts of social data, growing number of demands and requests from customers through social platforms, and evolving best practices make it easy for marketers to get overwhelmed. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Build a Smart Yet Simple Social Media Marketing Plan [Template]. says @AliceOh_. Click To Tweet. Account ages.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

Audiences watch livestreams differently than they consume videos. Audiences of non-live videos expect more. Saving your live video gives you the chance to take more editorial control over the broadcast to make changes and improve the quality. Audiences expect more from on-demand video, says @IamAaronAgius Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

English-speaking markets are attractive, but for most niches, they’re also the most competitive. 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.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Taken for its denotative meaning, clickbait does what all content marketers want – it entices the audience to click on the headline and consume their content. So why does clickbait show up on lists, including Facebook’s , of content marketing mistakes or practices to avoid ? Barnum still entertained his audience.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

There is a way to solve that problem, and create content that Google loves, while building a library of content that’s super useful to your target audience. It’s used by both B2B and B2C organizations to streamline their content marketing strategy. Promotion of blog posts through social media. The topic clusters model.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Most of the 4 million blog posts published each day get lost in the noise. Write for your niche audience persona – Each business has (or should have) a unique value proposition to offer a unique set of customers. Specifically, that’s the audience persona you created when you put together your content marketing strategy.

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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. Each row should have a blog post URL and its corresponding focus topic. Identify any posts that serve as pillar pages or have the potential to do so.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Wherever marketers create e-books, run webinars, promote blogs, and craft events, artisans are hammering, hacking, and whittling the words. These writers make content marketing run. This makes them excellent fact-checkers and concise writers, but they often dislike self-promotion and find the principles of marketing foreign.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. For example, if an audience is known to love a certain team, Quill can write a story that softens the blow when that team loses. Now, let’s meet the writing AIs behind three leading publications.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Imagine you publish two blog posts. Many marketers are taught to use this metric to decide which keywords they want to target when optimizing their pages for search. Because the sites are not targeting the same topic or audience, Google triggers a manual penalty and the additional backlinks backfire. Image source.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This site is filled with helpful how-to articles on copywriting , content writing, writing contests , content marketing , article writing, and SEO writing. Every editor and every client has unique needs, audiences, and styles. Pitch to Software Company Blogs. And if you need training , we have that too. Respect their time.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2017

A glance through Content Marketing Institute’s recently published posts, Growthhackers Must Read articles, or BuzzSumo’s most-shared marketing content from the past six months makes it clear – one blog post framework seems to be winning: How (Company You Know) Is Doing (Something) to Achieve (Positive Result).

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 29, 2018

Are you struggling with too much content marketing work? The following is list of tools that will help you save time and become more effective with your content marketing: 1. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Do a Competitive Content Marketing Analysis. Mintent: Build your editorial calendar (free version).

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ProBlogger

MAY 29, 2017

In today’s episode, we’re going to take a deep dive into a tool we’ve been using on ProBlogger for the last 18 months that has been incredibly useful for our team both as an editorial calendar tool but also to help us with our social media promotion of content. It’s not just blog posts. It’s a tool called CoSchedule.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Can you quantify the impact of your video content on your marketing goals? Can you quantify the impact of your #video content on your marketing goals, asks @apricot_amir. Having been immersed in online video pre-YouTube, I don’t think marketers have pushed this wonderful medium as hard as they could over the last few years.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Want to be a better content marketer? Consider this: CMI’s 2019 B2B research found that 67% of the most successful content marketers rated their organization’s content tech proficiency as expert or advanced. Only 5% of the least successful content marketers rate their organizations as expert or advanced in content tech proficiency.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Robert Rose and I just completed four years and over 200 episodes of our podcast, This Old Marketing. While far from the most successful marketing podcast on the planet, our one hour of weekly shenanigans has done fairly well. Once we notified this audience that a podcast was available, a good percentage listened to it.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 22, 2018

Webinars are an important yet underrated content marketing tactic. They provide you the opportunity to create a more interactive content format for your audience. I compiled this list of the tips and tools that will help even novice marketers create highly effective webinar content. Pick a narrow topic. Q&A webinars.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

If you need proof of how true his observation is, look no further than the Capital Group, a conservative, trusted financial services company that – until recently ­– lagged far behind its competitors in thought leadership and digital marketing. “We Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Stay plugged in to audience needs.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I break these tools into four groups – social media and audience-building, distribution tools outside of social media, SEO and outreach, and promotion-enhancement tools. 50 of the Best Social Media Tools Selected by Top Marketers. Social media and audience-building. A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development.

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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.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The ads weren’t necessarily bad, they were simply not reaching the right audience. When it comes to Facebook advertising, it is crucial to know your customers well enough to create a highly targeted Facebook ad audience. You must have a good audience match for people to engage with your campaign. KarolaKarlson Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original version of this post a couple years ago. We’re sharing Aaron’s updated version today, as more efficient teamwork is a constant need for content marketers. As content marketers, we have our work cut out for us. The problem is that social media marketing is notoriously self-centered.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

No matter what your content marketing strategy is, keyword research is the fuel. Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your team has developed audience personas and knows which topics and keywords resonate with your audience. You begin assigning the content marketing work. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Building Your Content Marketing Team?

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you want your content to drive maximum value, finding opportunities to engage audiences is just as critical as the content itself. Here are five advanced methods that belong in every marketer’s content promotion strategy. Most content marketers are familiar with influencer outreach. Blog Engage. GrowthHackers.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2019

A few short years ago, simply writing useful articles regularly was enough to keep your audience engaged and see your SEO rankings steadily grow. With content marketing becoming more complicated and integrated, your editorial calendar should grow up too. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Editorial Calendar Tools and Templates.

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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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