Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

Over 80% of people say they prefer to watch a live video than read social media posts, and four in five say they prefer to view a video from a brand than to read a blog, according to a survey from Livestream and New York Magazine. 4 of 5 people would rather watch a brand’s videos than read its blog. Use as a blog post.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The Stories feature allows you to interact more directly and transparently with your audience, but these Stories are deleted after 24 hours from the top of the feed. More Stories mean more chances to attract the audience’s attention. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 4 Unconventional Ways to Promote Blog Content on Social Media.

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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. Now consider which platform(s) make the most sense for your audience and business needs. Pro: Facebook Live offers a huge, built-in audience and rich metrics.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2018

These give us critical demographic information about our audience.@Twitter Twitter & @Facebook analytics give critical demographic info about our audience, says @ChristinKardos. We depend on Rival IQ to gather information about our audience ­– as well as other groups’ audiences. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 24, 2019

However, advancing technology is creating ample ways for brands – regardless of the size of their teams – to reach and grow their audiences on social media. It’s imperative to find influencers that are the right fit for your brand’s values, personality, and audience. Identify audience personas with Socialbakers.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

No matter how far AI advances go, software will never replace a human for crafting an insightful and meaningful blog post. In the following example, when a new item is published to my blog, it’s automatically posted to my Facebook page. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Time to do more.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Influencer marketing is about growing your audience and leveraging the voice of well-connected people … but using influencers with the biggest audiences isn’t always the answer. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Use Content to Get Your Audience to Trust You. TomsofMaine influencer community isn’t paid.

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Recruitment Marketing Editorial Team Editorial 93

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. Then several supporting blog posts – clusters – are written to explain sub-topics based on your pillar content and generate internal links to the pillar page.

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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. Discuss the article’s goal, scope, target audience, and target queries. Click To Tweet.

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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. The problem with clickbait, says Gregory Golinski, head of digital marketing at YourParkingSpace.co.uk, is that it’s a one-sided deal with your audience. aselepak Click To Tweet.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

Everyone knows a good content marketing team shares content with its audience; it also shares content among the members. Are you providing critical knowledge to your team and do your people know where to find it? The most essential tool for your content marketing team is a keyword research tool.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Further Reading: How to Create a Writing Portfolio That’ll Wow Potential Clients walks you through everything you need to craft an online portfolio of your work, from portfolio sites like Contently to using your own blog. Every editor and every client has unique needs, audiences, and styles. Pitch to Software Company Blogs.

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Freelance Writing Portfolio Proofreader 126

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Imagine you publish two blog posts. It’s like preferring to consume medical advice from WebMD vs. a blog page written by your mother’s childhood friend. . Because the sites are not targeting the same topic or audience, Google triggers a manual penalty and the additional backlinks backfire. Metrics can be misleading.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 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. Use whatever your audience might find relevant and helpful. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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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. If your organization crafts content for a tight-knit audience whose members share a common experience, such as startup founders, a writer who isn’t an expert may not work well.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

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. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Production, the second category of the AI framework, relates to marketing activities like these: creating, curating, and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, videos, and advertisements. Tools use AI to help people surface the right content to share across a network or to enhance a blog. Image source.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This Old Marketing was successful from Episode 1 because we already had an audience of over 75,000 email subscribers who opted to receive CMI content. Once we notified this audience that a podcast was available, a good percentage listened to it. Most successful podcasts started with an audience already in place. But it’s rare.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

In this post, I help you make sense of two influencer marketing tactics – the roundup blog post and the influencer-authored blog post. It’s simple in concept: Feature the thoughts of several industry influencers in a blog post or some other form of content to drive earned media traffic and brand awareness.

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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. Social media and audience-building. A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development. Think of it like a blog that anyone can post to. Distribution.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 22, 2018

They provide you the opportunity to create a more interactive content format for your audience. Pick a topic or area narrow enough to address points in such a way that your audience will derive some benefit. A bit like interviews, a Q&A involves questions from the audience, which tends to lead to a high engagement rate.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Here’s the secret: I don’t, aside from keeping an eye on a couple of blogs about the topic. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 9 Brilliant Tactics to Promote Your Blog Content on Facebook. The ads weren’t necessarily bad, they were simply not reaching the right audience. Leverage advanced Facebook audiences. Know your customers.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 29, 2018

And unless you reshare your content regularly, the majority of your audience won’t know it exists. For example, if you are on WordPress, you can use one of the available pre-made zaps to post your new WP posts to your Facebook page. Get Slack notifications for new comments on your WordPress blog posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

Capital Group succeeded because it positioned its content to provide answers its audience is hungry for – answers it’s uniquely capable of providing. Capital Group’s content answers audience questions it’s uniquely capable of answering, says @MarciaRJohnston. Stay plugged in to audience needs. Stay plugged in to audience needs.

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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. If that’s the case, you’ll have to find a way to get your content in front of a bigger audience. Blog Engage. Choose not by price, but by where members of your audience are active.

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Promotion Brand Awareness Editorial Team Content Creation 106

Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your team has developed audience personas and knows which topics and keywords resonate with your audience. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team. I hit that wall, then figured out a solution – a process to build content teams in a short time with relative ease.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. Content marketers never have had as much insight into audience’s interests, struggles and intents as they do now. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

With just over 100 million monthly active users in nearly 200 countries, its audience falls evenly along generational lines — millennial, generation X, and baby boomer — as well as gender lines. you’re essentially surfing the web to find vetted and targeted content from and for your audience. When you’re on Scoop.it!,

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For the sake of marketing budgets, audience engagement and experience, and ROI, let’s push things forward. Objectives like “educate our audience” or “raise awareness” sound valid. I’ve seen creative briefs that give little detail on audience or, worse, state the video is for multiple audiences. Let me qualify that.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2019

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. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Editorial Editorial Team Collaboration Social Media 93

Content Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2018

You write more blog posts and social content to promote the original content and hope for small, incremental progress. By partnering, you increase the content’s potential audience. The more partners, the bigger the audience. It’s great for the audience because they don’t have to look for multiple sources.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 28, 2018

Instead of getting a statistical generalization of the optimal time for posting content, the prescriptive model is more specific to each follower. You need to have a tool that can access personalized data about your individual audience members and give valuable information regarding each of their social media habits.

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Social Media Media Editorial Team Editorial 103

Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When it comes to nurturing an audience, email is the go-to for 87% of B2B content marketers, according to CMI research. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors (or, in this case, survey respondents), not the CMI editorial team. @cmicontent #research Click To Tweet.

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