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5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process

Content Marketing Institute

It’s a hazard of the job for content marketers. When you read or see a piece of high-quality content, you wonder how it got created. You ask yourself, “What does this company do to create great content? The simple answer is high-quality content serves both audience and business. Is it great for business too?”.

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7 Content Marketing Tasks to Automate Right Now

Content Marketing Institute

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. No matter how far AI advances go, software will never replace a human for crafting an insightful and meaningful blog post.

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7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks

Content Marketing Institute

You know what every content marketer loves? In this article, I share seven of my favorite content marketing and SEO tools. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Oops! 17 SEO Misfires to Avoid With Website Content Marketing. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 17 IFTTT Recipes to Help Every Content Marketer Work Better.

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5 Tools to Help Your Content Marketing Team Be Better

Content Marketing Institute

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.

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How to Adopt a Customer-Centric Strategy for Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

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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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

Content Marketing Institute

In early 2017, the iQ team borrowed a page from the traditional media playbook – focusing on sustaining loyal readers rather than a “more eyeballs” approach. Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. Distribution of your content, particularly with paid media, is also not that hard to do initially.

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6 Time-Saving Apps and Tools Marketers Obsess Over

Content Marketing Institute

When I’m in super-focused research mode, listening to a blog post also allows me to take furious notes underlining keywords and drawing pictures – like a more manic and messy version of one of those professional sketch-note drawers I see at conferences. Use @evernote for to-do lists, content ideas, business plans, notes, etc.

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