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

JUNE 28, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade. Content Marketing Institute invites you, one of our engaged readers, to grow your relationship with thousands of your fellow content marketers and to learn from some of the brightest in the field.

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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

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. Allison Wert , content marketing manager, Frontline Education.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. Every creative asset you produce needs to be supported by strategic decisions – from crafting ideas into a cohesive message to selecting the content types and distribution formats that let your ideas work their magic.

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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: An Alternative Approach to Developing Content Marketing Personas. CMWorld Click To Tweet.

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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

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

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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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing. And content marketing is neither of those things. Successful #contentmarketing integrates changes to make content function as a business model.

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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 25, 2018

Remember while it’s tempting to pour all your content team’s energies and resources into the next big thing to hit the digital marketplace, sustainable, long-term success with content marketing first requires a mastery of the fundamentals. Content marketing strategy tips and tools. Choose a content business model.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Each year, CMI founder Joe Pulizzi covers the essential roles you need on your content marketing team. It’s one of those posts that is consistently well received because it hits a nerve: Whom do you need on your team to make content marketing work in your organization? Content creation. Maturity level.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

No matter how large or small your business is, or how experienced you are in content marketing, these recently published books can help you take your content marketing to the next level. Resources for content marketing newcomers. The chapters contain between three and 12 pages.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Let’s be honest: you probably didn’t get into content marketing because you love working with numbers.    Thankfully for folks like me, there are many brilliant tools to help you keep on top of your content marketing metrics (little to no math required).   That’s certainly true for me.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 14, 2018

Are technology marketers moving away from creating content for the buyer’s journey? The CMI research team found ourselves asking this question as we analyzed the data from our eighth annual content marketing survey. 31% of tech marketers say their #contentmarketing is extremely or very successful.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 18, 2018

It was May 2014, and the content marketing team was celebrating the one-year anniversary of its digital magazine for one of the most prestigious financial services brands in the world. Content marketing was a hit at the firm. The content marketing director smiled. The pizza was delicious. Sound familiar?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s a distinction that most content marketers are familiar with – especially if it’s your job to spin rough, disorganized insights and ideas into high-performing content gold. Read on for a handy tutorial on the essentials, along with resources that can help take your content creation to greater levels of success.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Is content creation a challenge for your company? It is for one-third of B2B companies, according to the recently released B2B Content Marketing: 2018 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends — North America. One-third of #B2B companies cite #content creation as a challenge via @cmicontent #research.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 28, 2019

? ?. In case you haven’t noticed – over the years here at CMI we’ve spent quite a few brain cells and digital ink defining and defending the approach of content marketing as a separate and distinct methodology to influence customer behavior. 1 Google result to the question “what is content marketing.” Click To Tweet.

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Shorthand Content Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But many business owners get impatient with content marketing as well. They misunderstand the real purpose of content marketing, and why it takes longer to ‘work’ for your business. Unlike advertising, which may or may not turn a profit, content marketing offers intangible benefits beyond a sale.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Our aim is to highlight new, optimal internal business models for content marketing and use the innovations of the moving assembly line as a metaphor for that. This is a perfect metaphor for where content marketing is in 2018. Some companies only see it as a more efficient way to do classic, direct marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 1, 2019

Each and every year we cover some of the broader content marketing trends for the upcoming 12 months. The post looking forward to 2018 was one of the last written by my pal Joe Pulizzi before he retired. Content marketing in 2018 has truly been a reflection of where we are in the world – a tale of two cities.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Salesforce State of Marketing Report noted that AI adoption with marketers is up by a whopping 186% from 2018, with 84% using AI technology. Personalize Your AI Marketing Strategy. How vague is the targeting for your marketing campaigns? 60% of content marketers struggle with personalization.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 9, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Agile Practices: How to Avoid Mistakes Our Marketing Team Made. Agile marketers’ commitment to quality. Traditional marketing teams are about the same, with 46% prioritizing quality. Agile marketing teams, however, are more likely to report a focus on quality. Click To Tweet.

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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 Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2023

Google can detect AI content, but it won’t affect your rankings as long as your content is created for people first and foremost, not search engines. What matters is the intent and guiding hand behind your content creation, NOT the method you used to create it. How Does This Affect AI Content Creation?

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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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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a small business owner, digital marketing statistics can give your content marketing strategy a competitive edge in 2023. You know it’s difficult balancing content marketing and sales with actually creating your product or delivering your service. Content Marketing Institute , 2022) 5.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2018

And, judging from the sheer number of content creators who operate in this space, I’m not the only one. and host of the Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Lab at Content Marketing World 2018 , travel is one of the only industries where the place you do business matters just as much as the business you do.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 26, 2018

Want a shortcut to creating content that will convert, resonate with your customers, and save you time? For content marketers, reviews are like an unending recipe book. They are your golden ticket to efficient content that converts. (A Spark content ideas. Lilly Adam (@lillya1960) June 17, 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. Podcasts are the No. Click To Tweet. The McKinsey Podcast.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The CMI team posted videos before the 2017 Intelligent Content Conference (spoiler alert: we’ll do it again for ICC 2018 because they were effective). HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Deliver Emails That Will Increase Reach, Impact, and Subscriber Satisfaction. Check out all of the posters from Content Marketing World 2017.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 24, 2018

To make sure you choose a correct head term to align your ongoing content creation efforts, it should support at least one of your products and/or services and should be a term your buyer persona would use when searching. It’s important that your content supports visitors becoming customers.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2017

At the risk of getting all sentimental, Robert and I wanted to spend our last PNR podcast revisiting some of our favorite discussion topics, recalling a few of our personal content marketing triumphs, and passing along a bit of advice we’ve received over the years in the hopes that it will help you achieve greater triumphs in your own career.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 3, 2018

Editor’s note: Venetta Linas Paris 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. We talk a lot in content marketing about how stories can engage, educate, and win over audiences.

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