Contently

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

That said, how do you transcend from a messy spreadsheet or sticky notes on a bulletin board to a comprehensive content marketing engine? Ensure consistency: One of the biggest keys to content marketing success is a consistent posting schedule—it helps your audience stay engaged.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. Email marketing. 68% of companies take at least a week to produce one marketing #email via @litmusap. The paid version ($11.66

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. What’s the best way for the marketing and media teams to relate to each other? What can organizations do to ensure that the brand –and its audiences – benefit?

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2018

4 Reasons You Should Act on Influencer Marketing. 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. A cheesy marketing stunt? Let’s all rock our quirk.

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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. If you’re considering livestreaming, make a commitment to publish on a regular schedule.

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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. Jessica Best , director of data-driven marketing, Barkley . 50,000: Launch an audience research and partial website redesign project.

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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. Try #artificialintelligence in your B2B marketing and don’t wait, says @PaulRoetzer. As a marketer, you’ll never have to understand artificial intelligence in depth.

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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. Here’s how Karen MacKenzie asked for a testimonial after we published her first post on Smart Blogger: “Would it be possible to get a testimonial for my website?

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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

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. Publish your half-robot/half-human-created story (yes, straight from the app).

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BKA Content

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Publishing content regularly is the easiest and most affordable way for lawyers to get found, which is why if you don’t already have a legal content writer on your team, it may be time to hire one. However, that does not mean you should forego content marketing in favor of traditional marketing.

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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

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. In the example, the pillar topic would be content marketing strategy.

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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. Metrics can be misleading.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Topic Modeling Can Strengthen Your SEO and Content Marketing Strategy. Use whatever your audience might find relevant and helpful.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2018

Today’s savvy content marketers are at least eyeing if not yet adopting the business model established by media organizations. In this model, content has one main job : to build a loyal audience of subscribers. But how do traditional marketers make the switch? It seeks to retain and influence unique audiences.

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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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ProBlogger

APRIL 27, 2016

Do you consider all specifics of your content and audience when it comes to promotion? The trick is, create content which will be useful for the audience that is much broader than yours. Useful content is one aimed at solving a problem of your target audience. 2) Audience. This is a guest contribution from Emily Johnson.

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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

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

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

Editor’s note: You may have missed this article when CMI published it a couple years ago. 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. Mintent: Build your editorial calendar (free version).

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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.”. Publish the piece by @isocialfanz via @mdeziel. Press Record.

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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. They say it allows you to plan, publish, promote, and automate.

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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 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

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. Challenge: Stay true to the editorial mission and show value to the company. What to try: Invest in other teams’ success. Well, guess what? Why this works.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original post when we published it a couple years ago. 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.

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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. By a landslide, social media posts top the lists of types of content both B2C (96%) and B2B (94%) marketers say they use. And not just for in-house research.

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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 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. I like to reach out before I start writing.

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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

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

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

MARCH 29, 2018

These words from this year’s Intelligent Content Conference emcee Robert Rose, CMI’s chief strategy advisor, no doubt resonate if you’ve been in marketing for more than a week. With so much happening so fast in the realm of tools and strategy, what’s a marketer to do? Chatbots may break our copy-paste habit. What are chatbots?

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