Buffer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“It helped me grow by 300 followers in the past one to two weeks,” Christina Garnett , Principal Marketing Manager, Offline Community and Advocacy at HubSpout, says of her Community Top Voice badge. The campaign has resulted in a spike in both user-generated content (UGC) and traffic for the platform. 

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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. With $100,000, I’d test dynamic content recommendation engines for email. 1,000: Take the marketing team to dinner.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The marketing industry is quickly evolving, and marketing jobs are in increasing demand. For example, industry experts expect marketing manager jobs to grow twice as fast as the average employment rate over the next decade. Meanwhile, they expect market research analyst roles to grow nearly four times as fast in the same period.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Take Your Travel Content on a Better Trip. 4 Reasons You Should Act on Influencer Marketing. A cheesy marketing stunt? Sure, but one that’s on brand for a company known for its wacky content. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Successful content marketers on this social platform tailor their content to take advantage of the channel’s strengths, from hashtags and Stories to advertising and live video. Let’s explore how to use these features to maximize your content marketing strategy. Adaptable Instagram Ads. Learn more. Watch more.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 23, 2018

Use @evernote for to-do lists, content ideas, business plans, notes, etc. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 Apps and Tools Obsessed by Content Marketers. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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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

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

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

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. Now I’ve started my own company helping businesses of all types develop editorial and content strategies that make sense. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2017

How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. If you subscribe to the Content Strategy for Marketing newsletter, you should have received the revamped version in your inbox today.

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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

MARCH 1, 2018

Resolved to do better, in 2016 we began creating premium content monthly. We published lengthier e-books, practical templates , and how-to guides ; we also posted blog content pointing to those premium assets. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. The results came quickly.

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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

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

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. The bio link is also important. Click To Tweet.

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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. All the content about blenders, microwaves, food processors, etc., HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Create Pillar Content Google Will Love.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 7, 2019

Try incorporating a set of 15 into your content, then run the tool to see how it improves your score. Repeat the process until the content scores 90 or higher. The tool also gives editorial suggestions, i.e., popular questions around your topic that will help you build a more in-depth copy.

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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. Web mentions into monthly roundups.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

English-speaking markets are attractive, but for most niches, they’re also the most competitive. If you want results with less effort – and it makes sense for your audiences – think about localized markets. Building a multi-language content marketing team doesn’t require a huge budget, but it requires some thought and planning.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

Saving your live video gives you the chance to take more editorial control over the broadcast to make changes and improve the quality. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video Marketing Strategy: What Marketers Need to Know. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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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

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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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It’s used by both B2B and B2C organizations to streamline their content marketing strategy. An SEO strategy that focuses on topics rather than keywords, the model is an intent-based approach that simplifies blog archives by creating content around one central topic – referred to as the “pillar” page or post. Click To Tweet.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Website developers and marketers buzz about page load time, especially because Google announced beginning this past July that speed is a keyword ranking factor for some mobile versions of websites. For a closer look at SEO ranking tactics and factors, I recommend these resources: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018.

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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

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 15, 2018

Content marketers deliver a wealth of ideas and information, but it’s not always presented in the best way. Structure of content. I will take you through nine steps to ensure that your audience is more likely to consume and engage with your content. This is content marketing 101 , but it’s the most important aspect.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 24, 2018

TIP: Choose a head term with a monthly search volume of at least 2,500 that aligns well with your content marketing strategy. Identify a head term for your pillar content w/ a monthly search volume of at least 2,500. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Topic Modeling Can Strengthen Your SEO and Content Marketing Strategy.

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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. billion pieces of content per year.

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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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