Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 14, 2020

Don’t think of your editorial calendar as a schedule of content. Make it the implementation plan for your documented content marketing strategy. Continue reading → The post How to Create a Strategic Editorial Calendar appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 21, 2020

Content curation is a handy technique for all content marketers. Continue reading → The post Content Curation Tips and Examples to Fill Your Editorial Calendar appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Intergrowth

MARCH 30, 2023

Content marketing is one of the smartest investments that you can make in your business. Today, we’re going to walk through the seven most common content marketing mistakes that cost businesses thousands of dollars per year. But first… Why Invest in Content Marketing? They get too salesy.

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ContentWriters

AUGUST 23, 2023

Without answering these questions upfront, it’s likely each content creator will have a different approach, leading to content that lacks a consistent style. An editorial style guide is a document that outlines your company’s communication rules and guiding principles. Why Do You Need an Editorial Style Guide?

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Have your team members answer these questions and work together to create an editorial operating contract. How do you create an environment of team bliss and growth? Continue reading →

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Bramework

AUGUST 3, 2022

Having an editorial content strategy is key for the growth of your blog, website or brand this year. It’s important that your content be researched so that it fits your brand and your audience naturally. What is an Editorial Content Strategy? Helping people find you through your content is your ultimate goal.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 7, 2019

Your editorial calendar has holes, and ideas seem just out of reach. Continue reading → The post Forget Inspiration: Try These 6 Strategies to Fill Your Editorial Calendar appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. You have two choices: Wait for inspiration or develop a system to find stellar ideas.

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Ahrefs

JANUARY 12, 2023

That was the challenge I faced when I became the second member of Zapier’s editorial team in 2014. Zapier’s team had built a tool to automate your tedious business tasks. Anything you could do by copying and pasting—tweeting new blog … Read more ›

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Continue reading → The post How to Do a Competitive Content Marketing Analysis appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. Here’s how to assess what they’re doing so you can find gaps to fill, do it better, or avoid it altogether.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A documented content marketing strategy is a big differentiator between the most and least successful. Imagine what a documented workflow could do for your content marketing operations. Continue reading → The post How to Document Your Content Marketing Workflow appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Are you looking for a job – or looking to hire someone – in a field associated with “content marketing” or “content strategy” or “content marketing strategy”? And while that’s a great description of what many content marketers do, it doesn’t fit what content strategists (like me) do.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 7, 2018

Nearly all nonprofit marketers would benefit greatly by taking one month to power up their content marketing programs. That’s a logical conclusion based on the responses from 207 nonprofit marketers to the eighth annual Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs content marketing survey.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

? ?. Ever wondered why some content marketing programs are more successful than others? Whether you’re new to content marketing or knee deep in your brand’s content marketing program, answer these seven questions. The best content marketing programs address a clearly defined problem or challenge.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

With each passing year, there are more examples of manufacturers doing impressive things with content marketing. What can manufacturers in the young/first steps phase do to take their content marketing to the next level? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Key Milestones to Develop and Advance Your Content Marketing Program.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 7, 2018

Well, the presenters at Content Marketing World want to help. They’re sharing the best questions they’ve been asked about content marketing. In a few cases, they share their answers and in others, we share some content that could help you formulate your answer. What is content marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 28, 2018

Some of the presenters at Content Marketing World offer their out-loud critiques of what could be done better in content marketing. Use their observations to gauge what you’re doing well and where your content marketing program has room for improvement. Do it half-hearted. Do it half-hearted. Come up short.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2017

She said she absolutely loved the blog and felt like she found her calling around content marketing. She’d been doing content marketing for years but called it something else. The content marketing blog I started in April 2007 was really taking off, and the audience was anything but shy. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 6, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Use Your About Us Page to Connect With Customers [Examples]. Road Map to Success: Content Marketing Strategy Essentials. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Building Your Content Marketing Team? Marketing and communications groups need to be in better sync.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 11, 2018

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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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 23, 2018

Almost all B2C and 96% of B2B brands rely on internal resources to execute their content marketing program. No matter the configuration, a well-trained in-house content marketing team is a competitive advantage. Training is a critical part of having a well-performing content marketing team. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 6 Steps to Find the Perfect Content Marketing Pro. How to Build a Content Marketing Practice in a Year: Lessons From Monster. Unfetter your thinking before you make editorial plans. As marketers, we may feel forced to run campaigns to meet established monthly sales goals.

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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. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Time to do more.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 12, 2018

If you want to be taken seriously as a content marketer, stop acting like a member of the PR team. If you want to show that content marketing is a distinct contributor to business results, stop using only PR metrics. Sure, public relations and content marketing are overlapping fields, but they’re not the same.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Megan Gilbert joined as editorial director to launch FORTUNE Brand Studio. Learn how she leads the agency and why she's a Content Marketer of the Year finalist. Four years later, she's the vice president and has helped grow it to $16 million in revenue.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This article is the follow-up to an August post about 25 frequently asked questions about content marketing. Do you get asked tough, or even easy, questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing. What is content marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 19, 2018

Editor’s note: Because understanding what your fellow marketers are doing and what’s happening in successful content marketing programs is critical to success, Lisa Murton Beets has updated her 2017 article. Or, maybe you need some great stats to help you build your business case for content marketing.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To compete on this noisy (literally) landscape, content marketers may need to follow a few SEO guidelines that relate to the informational needs and behaviors of spoken-word searchers. Read: Is Voice Search the Future of Content Marketing? Content conclusion. Billions of them, in fact, as data from Alpine.AI

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

Being committed to content marketing is a no-brainer requirement for success. But what may be surprising is how a small shift in commitment level can make a BIG difference in overall content marketing success. content marketers. Does that mean they can’t strengthen their commitment to content marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“What’s next for content marketing?” As modern marketing practitioners, no matter how focused we are on today’s pressing challenges and opportunities, we can’t help but keep an eye on what the future might bring. 5 at Content Marketing World: Project of the Year. Content Marketer of the Year.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 9, 2019

marketing automation, predictive lead scoring, etc.). Beyond that, I found the concept hard to grasp until Chris Penn’s presentation at Content Marketing World, How to Use AI to Boost Your Content Marketing Impact. AI in #contentmarketing: Find #SEO-friendly #content topics via text mining.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An Alternative Approach to Developing Content Marketing Personas. Create shows, raid for content.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. Content is never just content. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2017

09:57): Special offer for Content Marketing World video on demand – You may have missed the show, but don’t miss out on all the insights. Videos of 100+ sessions from Content Marketing World 2017 will be available for a limited time through our video on demand portal. Source: Content Marketing Institute ).

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Not former journalist Diane di Costanzo, who leads a unique content practice at Foundry 360. Here’s the inside story of the compelling editorial and repeatable models for success that earned her the 2022 B2C Content Marketer of the Year title. Continue reading →

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Struggling to find new ideas to fill your editorial calendar? 10+ Tools to Spark Content Creation appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. Here are more than 10 tips, tricks, and tools to help you go from stagnant to fresh. Continue reading → The post Out of Ideas?

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