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How to Create an Editorial Style Guide

Neil Patel

More than just a preferred list of grammar rules, an editorial style guide provides your content team with guidelines for the creation of useful, on-brand content. An editorial style guide ensures a standard baseline for quality and consistency. This will become more critical as your in-house editorial team grows.

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The 1-2-3-4 Strategy to Drive Leads From Instagram

Content Marketing Institute

I never thought I could use it to build an audience. The bio content or text is the most important element. 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). The profile image. Create and share great content.

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Community Management: A Social Media Expert Spills Her Secrets

Content Marketing Institute

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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If You Aren?t Using Website Videos, You?re Missing These 3 Benefits

Content Marketing Institute

Video content sees 41% more search traffic than text or image via @aberdeengroup #research. Give your audience more reasons to convert. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. HubSpot Click To Tweet. It’s not surprising.

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How to Get More From Your Livestream After the Broadcast

Content Marketing Institute

Consumers are naturally drawn to live video because it offers immediate real-time insight in a way that text and image cannot achieve. These text-based tools allow you to entice people to watch the video and to make sure the videos can be found through search (don’t forget to include keywords). Audiences of non-live videos expect more.

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A Primer to Boost Your Content’s Readability

Content Marketing Institute

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. Poor readability is a signal that you’re not looking after your audience. Don’t have an engaged audience. They didn’t care about readability and their audience.

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

Content Marketing Institute

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: 13 Reasons Why You Should Consider Text-Based Marketing. Let’s all rock our quirk.