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5 Research-Based Actions to Improve Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

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. A little over halfway through 2018, you may be looking for insights on how to maximize your content marketing efforts. Or, maybe you need some great stats to help you build your business case for content marketing.

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Type Delete Type: What Writers Do (or “Why I’m Editing My Life”)

Jeff Goins

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Seven Sure-Fire Ways to Annoy a Blog Editor (and What to Do Instead)

ProBlogger

The post Seven Sure-Fire Ways to Annoy a Blog Editor (and What to Do Instead) appeared first on ProBlogger. This is a post by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke. Are you (inadvertently) annoying bloggers you want to impress? If you’re hoping to build a great relationship with a blog editor – maybe so you can land a guest post, or interview them on your blog – then this post is for you.

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E200: Chasing Dreams and Finding Truth: Interview with Tim Grahl

Jeff Goins

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Should You Worry About Your SEO and Google’s Mobile-First Index?

Content Marketing Institute

Given your vigilance with the all-powerful search engine rankings, it is reasonable to be concerned about Google mobile-first or at least more curious than usual. Google recently weighed in, knowing its plan led to confusion. In a series of tweets , Google touched on everything from a problem showing cached pages with mobile-first results to clarifying that “hamburger” menus are fine to use.

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Your Editorial Calendar is Not Your Content Marketing Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: You may have missed this article when CMI published it last year. We’re sharing it now because the misperceptions about editorial calendars and content marketing strategies are still common. Marketers often talk about how they have a strategy … then proceed to say they are set because they have an editorial calendar. At the risk of sounding ranty, I’d love to yell from the rooftops: An editorial calendar is not a content marketing strategy !

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How NASCAR Drives Better Storytelling With a Unified Team

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Evan Parker is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from all the finalists in this blog before the winner is announced in September at Content Marketing World. Enterprise content marketing is an exercise in collaboration. Planning, creating, distributing, and promoting content typically involves people on more than one team.