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The Best Content Marketing Books of 2017 to Boost Your Creativity and Productivity

Content Marketing Institute

If you’re a chief content officer , copywriter, designer, or programmer searching for ways to create more and better content in less time, you’ll find fresh ideas for improving your creativity, productivity, and writing skills with these best books from 2017. Efficiency: Building your team’s creativity, planning, and productivity.

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27 Ideas to Break Your Creative Slump

Content Marketing Institute

Well, instead of watching a mocking cursor, take a tip (or 27) from your fellow marketers on how they get out of a creative content marketing slump. The Rare White Squirrel Who Eats Pumpkins (and Other Stories of Creativity). When you’re consistently trying to use your creative brain power, it’s easy to hit a snag and become exhausted.

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The One Thing Killing Your Most Creative Content Ideas (and How to Stop It)

Content Marketing Institute

Creativity. We’ve gone from pitching wildly creative ideas every day to floating mildly interesting ideas once every six months. It’s just that we’ve been beaten into believing that we’re not creative because we’ve heard “NO!” Hearing “no” too many times beats down our creativity, says @carlajohnson. We all want it.

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The Zen of Content Marketing: Higher Consciousness, Better Performance

Content Marketing Institute

October 7, 2017) edition, Robert relates his conversation with a marketing director who was considering quitting his job. September 30, 2017) newsletter, he addresses the difficulty many marketing departments have finding talented people to hire for their content teams. Unfetter your thinking before you make editorial plans.

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6 Ways Manufacturing Marketers Can Improve Their Content Marketing [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

Action item: Develop an editorial calendar as soon as feasible, and make it a priority. Develop an editorial calendar as soon as feasible, and make it a priority, says @LisaBeets. Develop an editorial calendar as soon as feasible, and make it a priority, says @LisaBeets. Value creativity and craft in content output.

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Bloggers to Watch in 2017

ProBlogger

Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. She became the Executive Editor, running the editorial side of the company. What bloggers are you watching in 2017? The post Bloggers to Watch in 2017 appeared first on ProBlogger. Ramit Sethi: I Will Teach You To Monetize (In 6 Steps).

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Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs

Content Marketing Institute

I had the pleasure of thinking through this question in more detail when Joe asked me to speak about creating the ultimate content marketing team at Content Marketing World 2017. It’s imperative to start out with a solid strategy (and, no, a strategy is not your editorial calendar ). Editorial planning. Strategy development.