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6 Content Marketing Ideas to Steal From the Awards Finalists of 2017

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We design our content initiatives based on an audience-first approach. Knowing his health-care audience is highly skeptical of anything that seems like marketing, though, Paul Horstmeier realized a traditional lead-gen approach wouldn’t work. Ask yourself: Does this gated content benefit our audience? KimMoutsos Click To Tweet.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

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In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? The true challenge of becoming a successful (brand) publisher is sustaining an audience, says @LukeKintigh. A lot, it turns out.

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Publishing Frequency: Why (and How) We’re Changing Things Up

Content Marketing Institute

Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. Attendees of Content Marketing World 2017 heard Jay Baer explain “how to get promoted by creating less content, not more.” (You can read about strategic changes made subsequently to the publishing schedule at Jay’s company, Convince and Convert.).

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How to Develop and Grow a Successful Podcast

Content Marketing Institute

This Old Marketing was successful from Episode 1 because we already had an audience of over 75,000 email subscribers who opted to receive CMI content. Once we notified this audience that a podcast was available, a good percentage listened to it. Most successful podcasts started with an audience already in place. But it’s rare.

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Falling Behind Your Competitors? Build a Content Brand

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We were hiding our light under a bushel,” says Will McKenna, describing the company’s marketing efforts in the talk he and Fred Macri gave at Content Marketing World 2017: Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Crafting a Successful Content Brand in an 86-Year-Old Enterprise. Stay plugged in to audience needs. Making it a success is another.

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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

Content Marketing Institute

The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Regardless of whether those syndicated articles find the eyeballs or languish on pages unseen, one segment of the audience sees everything: search engines. Click To Tweet. SEO Click To Tweet.

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The New Marketing: How to Manage a Media Arm Within Your Company

Content Marketing Institute

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. Should they keep a “church-state” separation (like the separation that newspapers traditionally uphold between reporting and advertising teams), or should they collaborate?