Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. You continually roll the dice in hopes of earning enough trust, credibility, and experience to persuade your audience to embark on a journey alongside your brand. Want proof? pic.twitter.com/D9zDWXxuDb.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 6, 2018

These are just a few of the characteristics we look for when selecting the finalists for CMI’s Content Marketer of the Year award. As we begin to unveil our 2018 finalists in the coming weeks, we want to give you a closer look at last year’s honoree. Mix and match content types, formats, and levels. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

Being committed to content marketing is a no-brainer requirement for success. But what may be surprising is how a small shift in commitment level can make a BIG difference in overall content marketing success. content marketers. Does that mean they can’t strengthen their commitment to content marketing?

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Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

Content marketing is powerful, but it’s also hugely competitive. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different. If you want to make the most of content marketing, you need to produce content that is helpful, detailed, and different.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2017

B2C marketers may be about to hit that stage given the signs that popped up as we read through the survey data and fill-in responses to the latest annual content marketing research. You can read the full results in B2C Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America , produced by CMI and MarketingProfs.).

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The outlook for B2C content marketing looks bright if budgets are any indication. Fifty-seven percent of B2C marketers surveyed expect their 2019 content marketing budget to increase over 2018, and 29% of those expect it to increase by more than 9%. consumers spend more on brands to which they feel loyal.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the field of marketing is constantly evolving, and SaaS brands are not immune from the challenges that arise due to the fast-paced nature of the field. One great way SaaS companies can keep up is through brand advocacy. 2021 SaaS Trends that Affect Brand Advocacy. Overcome Content Overload.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here are some examples: BrandAnnual Revenue *All figures in USD Hush Blankets $48M Product Validation Mid Day Squares $20M Content Marketing TBH Skincare $6.5M Content Marketing MX Store $65M Search Marketing Who Is Elijah $13M Operational Efficiency Whether your goal is to do $1M or $100M, it comes from executing the fundamentals.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I can’t think of any superpower that would be more useful for content marketers than to have a sneak preview of all the important developments, trends, technologies, and key disruptors that will impact our strategic and creative decisions over the next 12 months. It will reinforce quality and creativity in content more than ever.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Enter, 20-year marketing veteran Lisa Mattson. With the help of her team, Lisa has reinvigorated Jordan Winery’s brand through videos. This post shares some ideas from her Content Marketing World talk, How Jordan Winery Crushed Content Marketing With a Video-Centered Strategy – ideas that you can steal to reinvigorate your brand.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

And there’s a good chance they’ll rely on techniques like content marketing to help them reach that goal. Of course, content marketers who work at a company that’s achieved enterprise status understand the pursuit of growth never ends; it just plays out on a much larger and more complicated field of dreams.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2018

Content marketing is a great, wonderful, powerful way to earn attention and loyalty online … but much of what the industry talks about comes from a B2B perspective. I’m not here to tell you that everything you learned about content marketing is a lie and you need to ditch everything. Interactive content.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2018

Editor’s note: Beverly Jackson is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. And it offers several lessons for other marketers. Circus Circus (@CircusVegas) June 30, 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

As content marketers, we are always reminded of the need to focus on our audience and their needs. In a way, this relationship gives each marketer the privilege of mentoring consumers by the thousands. Document your content marketing mission statement.”. Pam Didner , author, Global Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

“It’s 2018. shared that nugget of wisdom at the recent Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas. Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Yet it risked losing market share to competitors that more openly shared insights ­on news that affects investment decisions. Create a content brand: Capital Ideas.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Editor’s note: Because proving the value of content marketing continues to be necessary, Julia McCoy updated her 2016 post with some fresh stats and perspective. . Content marketing has been moving at the speed of light in recent years. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Explain Content Marketing to Anyone.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

1 seed Virginia), I offer six basketball-tournament inspirations for your content marketing strategy. billion expected to be wagered in 2018. Take a page for your content marketing playbook. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your CEO Needs These 4 Content Marketing Metrics. Build a bracket.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 2, 2018

Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. And marketing tech tools once available to enterprise-level brands with big budgets are now viable for small and medium-sized businesses too.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s because Robert’s columns challenge me to think beyond how to do a content marketing task and even beyond how to do things better. Instead, he makes me think about why we content marketers do what we do and about the role of content , the job of content marketing, and what success really feels like.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Did you catch Joe Pulizzi’s talk at Content Marketing World 2018 ? In it, he revealed the secrets of life and marketing (sorry if you missed it). The binge-able Stay Here isn’t overtly about content marketing, although it does offer a few basic tips (think: blogging helps, headlines matter). The first step?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Workflow automation: IFTTT. Cost: Free.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. For product and service brands, building an owned media strategy as a strategic function in the business is akin to how companies were using the assembly line in 1913. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Like their peers in North America, Australian content marketers say their organizations are concentrating more on building audiences than they were a year ago. That’s a 23% year-over-year increase, which is higher than the 18% year-over-year increase reported by North American B2B content marketers. cmicontent #research.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Brands Use Pop-Up Experiences to Make a Lasting Impression. Create shows, raid for content.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

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]. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Confused About Agile Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

One of the oldest mediums is also one of the most powerful — and one of the most overlooked in content marketing. Yet some brands are working with top comics creators and publishers such as Marvel Comics. Why risk the reputation of your brand with poor quality work for some marginal savings? BuddyScalera Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many brands leverage content marketing to generate qualified leads and boost sales. In fact, content marketing generates over three times more leads as outbound marketing and costs 62% less. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 30 Experts Identify Biggest Mistakes in Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

I doubt any marketing team can perfect its SEO and content marketing efforts. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. Time spent on a page matters with SEO and content marketing. Generally, you want people to visit and make their way to other content pages.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

But ask marketers if they’re measuring the right things and most answers are closer to “damned if I know” than “you betcha.” In May I judged a category in the 2018 Content Marketing Awards. Rand spoke to me about measurement on an episode of the Brand Newsroom podcast. “I Path to content marketing success.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Marketers seeking to learn through recent books suffer from an embarrassment of riches. A search of Amazon.com for “marketing books” returns 324,225 titles. Narrow the search to “content marketing books” and 2,736 options appear. Content marketing success requires making the right decisions over and over.

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BKA Content

MAY 31, 2023

Content Marketing Guide for Insurance Companies You’ve heard by now that insurance content marketing can help grow your business, but have you added this strategy to your arsenal? Perhaps you simply don’t feel comfortable writing professional content for your insurance website.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. Content is never just content. Today, he’s the senior manager of brand strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 11, 2018

Even successful, established brands must start at the ground floor to build a B2B influencer marketing program – the same as an agile, scrappy startup. Amisha Gandhi, VP, influencer marketing, SAP Ariba, says that, just as in one’s personal life, worthwhile relationships take more than numbers-flexing on either side.

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Express Writers

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Planning in advance and creating a holiday content marketing strategy can help take some of the stress out of the holiday season for your business. Quality holiday content marketing can help you connect with your audience, appeal to new customers, and increase your brand awareness. Improves Brand Awareness.

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