Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each of those quotes continues to inspire me and impact the way I think about content marketing. Today, to kick off the new year, the CMI editorial team asked me to share some more quotes. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The 3 Behaviors Driving the Most Creative Content Marketers. Shane Snow, Smartcuts.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Drawing from emails with Anna and from her Content Marketing World talk, Beyond Traffic Reports: Using Data, Organizational Messaging, and Passion to Reinvigorate Your Content Strategy , this post sums up how the Red Hat content team did all this and how you can, too. How’s that effort going?

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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. Or I might try a bit of native advertising for our top converting content. Support external content creation.

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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. Now I’ve started my own company helping businesses of all types develop editorial and content strategies that make sense. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Created by an in-house editorial team, with help from publishing company McSweeney’s, the content includes personal essays, comedic advice columns, and other stories about resting, relaxing, and recharging. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: What to Do After You Press Record: A Formula for Videos People Love. Content marketing can be a tough sell to executives who are interested in its direct relationship to selling. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

Should they keep a “church-state” separation (like the separation that newspapers traditionally uphold between reporting and advertising teams), or should they collaborate? What can organizations do to ensure that the brand –and its audiences – benefit? Each serves an audience. Think of your portfolio of media companies.

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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. Be strategic about the frequency of publishing your content, says @JoePulizzi. Following the send-off episode on Dec. Click To Tweet.

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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. These give us critical demographic information about our audience.@Twitter Sococo has been a critical tool to get this done.

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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

APRIL 27, 2018

I never thought I could use it to build an audience. Create and share great content. You might be surprised to learn that Foundr built the bulk of its follower base by sharing inspiring quotes for entrepreneurs and business owners (its target audience). 37+ Tips and Tools for Picture-Perfect Visual Content.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Successful content marketers on this social platform tailor their content to take advantage of the channel’s strengths, from hashtags and Stories to advertising and live video. Let’s explore how to use these features to maximize your content marketing strategy. photooftheday. Dynamic Stories. What tips do you have?

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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. Risks and rewards marketing influencer programs.

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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. It’s imperative to find influencers that are the right fit for your brand’s values, personality, and audience. says @AliceOh_. Click To Tweet.

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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

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. The team knows what to do, and when and how to do it. Train the team.

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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. Structure of content. Don’t have an engaged audience.

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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.”. Barnum still entertained his audience.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 2018

Here’s a crash course on three advanced SEO techniques to help you get more conversions and better ranking from content you’re creating. Ready to take your content marketing expertise to the next level? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. Boom – topic cluster.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What matters is that the legal writer you choose has an intimate understanding of your target audience and its needs and that he or she can produce quality, well-researched and original content that provides readers with the value they seek. Why Your Law Firm Needs a Legal Content Writer. The Reality of Legal Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

How do you give your content extra oomph? Write for your niche audience persona – Each business has (or should have) a unique value proposition to offer a unique set of customers. To create content that stands out, speak to your niche. In BuzzSumo , click on Content Analyzer (under the Content Research tab), then Analysis.

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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. Email-generated content ideas. The topic clusters model.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Below the erupting volcano of content – billions of new articles every month – a secret army is hard at work. 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. Much of it is poorly written.

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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). It was there that I expanded on my education, learning the world of media communication, marketing communications, and corporate content creation. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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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. Basically, you’re trying to match the services you offer with the content they need.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The key phrases behind content-writing robots you’ll see a lot – intelligent narratives, natural language generation (NLG), and automated storytelling technology. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Narrative Science and Quill.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Your friend has a water sport site and agrees to include your content. Because the sites are not targeting the same topic or audience, Google triggers a manual penalty and the additional backlinks backfire. 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

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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Analyzing content. Check it out!

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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. IanCleary Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

JULY 30, 2014

As Google’s algorithms get ever more efficient at filtering out good content from bad, more and more companies are turning to content marketing and guest posting to increase their Google page rank and appear higher up searches. In the world of content marketing, creating high quality posts is just part of the story.

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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. It’s no longer enough to document your planned content assets.

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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 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 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. 67% of most successful #content marketers say their org is advanced or expert in #tech proficiency.

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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

APRIL 26, 2018

What keeps you up at night about your content marketing program? There’s also a good chance other stress-inducing concerns include your tech stack and/or your team. Your peers – even at brands lauded for their content approach – struggle with the same issues. What to try: Invest in other teams’ success.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

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. Without curation, marketers pack their feeds with pitch after promotion after pitch, says @AaronOrendorff. Click To Tweet. Two reasons.

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