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. Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Does your company look at content through customers’ eyes? Here’s one way to tell: Look at your marketing content. A few years ago, the team took a hard look at the company’s content and found that it was heavily oriented toward what Red Hat sells (IaaS solutions, PaaS solutions, Linux solutions, and so on).

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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? In all cases, the subscribers are electrical engineers, the company’s target market.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 10 Tips (and a Ton of Tricks) to Maximize Your Video Content Investment. Video content sees 41% more search traffic than text or image via @aberdeengroup #research. Video converts more users.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

The bio content or text is the most important element. You can drive a flood of leads with a relevant and enticing call to action like this one from an earlier version of Foundr’s profile (“Get Our Free Instagram Marketing 101 Issue!”). Create and share great content. Feel-good content also performs well.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 29, 2018

Given the power of visual content (it’s more memorable and more engaging than text-based content), many marketers have turned to DIY graphic design software or contracted with graphic artists. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27+ Handy Tools for Better Visual Content Marketing . 4-7 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

Christin Kardos leads social media for Convince and Convert, an organization that teaches marketers how to be socially savvy. As marketers and businesspeople, we know social presents tremendous opportunities for business … but when it’s used only as a broadcast channel, you’re failing to make connections. Essential social mindset.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 25, 2018

There’s one fundamental tactic behind brand monitoring online: Promote your promoters – use your marketing channels to drive traffic to content that promotes your business. Use your #marketing channels to drive traffic to #content that promotes your business, says @SEOSmarty. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Content audits are about as popular as colonoscopies but they’re just as necessary to health – in this case, the health of your content marketing strategy. But you likely dread the tedious, time-consuming annual content audit, and reliably and predictably put it off (and sometimes never get it done.).

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

As with any content marketing initiative, avoid the one-and-done approach. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video-Phobic Marketers: It’s Time to Get Over Your Fear of Producing Video. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Instagram Marketing: 4 Features You Should Be Using [Examples]. Embrace consistency. YouTube Live.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Content marketing heavily relies on technology, which means it evolves quickly. Mobile search, video marketing, SEO – all of that has been changing and advancing content marketing for the past few years. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Road Map to Success: Content Distribution Essentials That Win Eyeballs.

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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]. Pricing: Free for limited access.

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BKA Content

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, that does not mean you should forego content marketing in favor of traditional marketing. The Reality of Legal Content Marketing. If you need more incentive to hire a legal content writer, consider these top three benefits of content marketing: Content helps users find you.

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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. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Only 10 Ways to Make Money From Content Marketing. But it absolutely can be done.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. I will take you through nine steps to ensure that your audience is more likely to consume and engage with your content. Lose revenue. Is relatable.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Do you struggle to create engaging content that lands you in the top spots of Google? 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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Create Pillar Content Google Will Love.

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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). As I came close to graduation, I felt like sports marketing was something I’d be good at. I was lucky enough to get an internship with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the professional basketball team, after graduation.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To create content that stands out, speak to your niche. Specifically, that’s the audience persona you created when you put together your content marketing strategy. Find your style – Your business has a unique value proposition (your content differentiation factor ), so your voice and style of communication need to match.

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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. Read on and soak up the knowledge.

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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.”. Clickbait creates the curiosity gap.

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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. Cost of content creation.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video Marketing Strategy: What Marketers Need to Know. Your live content is great fodder for a blog article, especially when combined with the questions and comments that came through while you were rolling. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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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. They’re often bloggers.

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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. The other way is to keep checking their “career” page: The Content Marketing Institute maintains a detailed database of agencies. Click here to check it out.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

I doubt any marketing team can perfect its SEO and content marketing efforts. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 SEO Strategies for Social Media You Need to Know Before You Hit Publish. Engagement. Let’s dive in.

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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.”. If you document it, you can achieve it.

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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? Over time, the team made choices that advanced its practices.

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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. For the sake of marketing budgets, audience engagement and experience, and ROI, let’s push things forward. Old model of video marketing.

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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

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. Recognize that paid content promotion pays off.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2018

Webinars are an important yet underrated content marketing tactic. They provide you the opportunity to create a more interactive content format for your audience. They also are one of the top five types of content that can naturally attract links to your site. Pick a narrow topic. Interview webinars. Click To Tweet.

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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. Unfortunately, when we add all the curating, collecting, and collaborating necessary for full-scale engagement, overwhelmed is an understatement.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Podcasting Pioneers Explain Value of Audio Content and Rookie Mistakes to Avoid.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

You must have a good audience match for people to engage with your campaign. You must have a good audience match for people to engage when advertising on @Facebook. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Quick and Dirty Guide for Creating Actionable Content Marketing Personas. KarolaKarlson Click To Tweet. Subscribe today.

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