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 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

MARCH 1, 2018

It only made sense that we called the project Social Media Lab. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. Conducting content experiments. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Content Influences the Purchasing Process: Tips for Content Marketers [Research].

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 29, 2018

It’s time for a reminder that the strategic use of typography, color, and white space can drastically improve the efficacy and aesthetics of visual content. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27+ Handy Tools for Better Visual Content Marketing . Not an expert in multiple areas of content marketing?

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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

JUNE 25, 2018

Encourage more sites to mention your brand (in hopes you’ll include them in your content too). Here’s how we did it for one project: Published post monthly rounding up the brand’s mentions in blog articles and videos. 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

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Even though the amazing CMI editorial team wanted me to write about marketing, I wrote this instead (ha). After a few month-long work engagements, I landed a full-time job at an insurance company, working on internal communications projects. I left and started what was to become the Content Marketing Institute.

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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

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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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. Much of it is poorly written.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

While it can be nice to think of outsourcing a project that you don’t want to do, this is often a mistake. Currently, outsourced IT work like project-based and statement of work (SOW) tasks are now equal to staff increases for IT work, according to TekSystems. Then, create a screencast of the project.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Your notebook is filled with ideas, notes, and doodles of possibilities for your content marketing program. Take the advice of some past and current Content Marketing World presenters on what to do before, during, and after a conference to take actionable steps for you and your brand without the suffering. Conclusion.

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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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ProBlogger

JULY 30, 2014

As Google’s algorithms get ever more efficient at filtering out good content from bad, more and more companies are turning to content marketing and guest posting to increase their Google page rank and appear higher up searches. In the world of content marketing, creating high quality posts is just part of the story.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2019

With content marketing becoming more complicated and integrated, your editorial calendar should grow up too. It’s no longer enough to document your planned content assets. Your editorial calendar should involve collaboration, analytics #tools, and more, says @seosmarty. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Want to be a better content marketer? Consider this: CMI’s 2019 B2B research found that 67% of the most successful content marketers rated their organization’s content tech proficiency as expert or advanced. 67% of most successful #content marketers say their org is advanced or expert in #tech proficiency.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Clearly, you’ll be in good company if you “steal” the content marketing ideas in this column. In fact, it’s becoming a tradition (and some might say a stolen idea) for CMI to offer cool tips gathered from some of the hottest marketing talents in the business. This year we steal from the Content Marketer of the Year finalists.

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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. Without curation, marketers pack their feeds with pitch after promotion after pitch, says @AaronOrendorff. Content curation is the only way to go.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your team has developed audience personas and knows which topics and keywords resonate with your audience. The content promotion plan is done and the KPIs are set. You begin assigning the content marketing work. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 26, 2018

Is there anything left to say about how to put together a content calendar? Between Content Marketing Institute writers and guest contributors, we’ve covered basic content calendar tips (including templates and examples) thoroughly over the years. A content calendar by any other name. How will you know?

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT : Thinking of Creating Original Research? Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Quick and Dirty Guide for Creating Actionable Content Marketing Personas. However, the real gold mine of Facebook marketing opens when you use the advanced audience features: custom audiences and lookalike audiences. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Establish the Best Social Media KPIs for Your Content Marketing Goals. Old model of video marketing. A brand wants to produce a piece of video content. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 10 Tips (and a Ton of Tricks) to Maximize Your Video Content Investment. Who’s it for?

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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

JANUARY 16, 2018

But while your Google Home pods, face ID-enabled iPhones, wearable fitness trackers, 3D printers, and the like might be fun and games now, there’s serious power behind those tools – power that enhances the performance of your content marketing efforts, makes them easier to produce, and makes them more enticing to your audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 20, 2018

Like all content marketers, you want readers to get the most out of your content. But creating and distributing high-quality content across the increasing number of channels you’re expected to manage takes a lot of time and resources. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2018

Your lead goal is something to consider as you choose your partners and define the project because you want to cast a wide net but still attract the best leads you can. We chose influencer marketing because much of our best content was on this topic, a lot of brands are interested in the subject, and we had a lot of content on it.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 6, 2018

Unless today is your first day as a content marketer, you’re aware of how essential a documented strategy is to achieving content marketing success. But let’s face it: Not all of us have a direct part to play in crafting or controlling our company’s strategic, high-level view of content. joderama Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 6, 2018

What if you could ask today’s influential online marketers one question: “What social media tool is your all-time, desert-island, can’t-live-without favorite?”. What follows are – by any list or metric – 51 big names in online marketing, content marketing, and e-commerce along with their top social-media tool and reason for loving it.

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