Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

I never thought I could use it to build an audience. Then I came across a blog post describing how an online publication drove leads and built a multimillion-dollar business from Instagram. The final step in engaging effectively with your audience is to post the right way. Create and share great content.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Questions to Ask Your Customer Support Team to Help Build Buyer Personas. 4 Ways to Shift Your Thinking to Truly Focus on Your Audience. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by the sources, not the CMI editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Give your audience more reasons to convert. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. If you want to grow your commitment to video and bring additional success, put together a course.

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Website Editorial Team Landing Page Content Creator 111

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

Define your audience. Figure out who you are trying to connect with and ask yourself whether you have the expertise or credibility to satisfy that audience. Now consider which platform(s) make the most sense for your audience and business needs. Pro: Facebook Live offers a huge, built-in audience and rich metrics.

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Editorial Team Entertainment Content Creator Editorial 110

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Our content was too academic and didn’t resonate with our audience. When we focused on making it more readable for our audience, business grew. Poor readability is a signal that you’re not looking after your audience. Don’t have an engaged audience. They didn’t care about readability and their audience.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 20, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Give Your Best Blog Posts New Life (Even When Your URLs Don’t Cooperate). Use it to manage lists of keywords to help you optimize content for search engines, build a content calendar to keep track of deadlines and assignments, and measure the metrics and audience feedback for your repurposed posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

These give us critical demographic information about our audience.@Twitter Twitter & @Facebook analytics give critical demographic info about our audience, says @ChristinKardos. We depend on Rival IQ to gather information about our audience ­– as well as other groups’ audiences. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

Audiences watch livestreams differently than they consume videos. Audiences of non-live videos expect more. Saving your live video gives you the chance to take more editorial control over the broadcast to make changes and improve the quality. Audiences expect more from on-demand video, says @IamAaronAgius Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 24, 2019

However, advancing technology is creating ample ways for brands – regardless of the size of their teams – to reach and grow their audiences on social media. It’s imperative to find influencers that are the right fit for your brand’s values, personality, and audience. Identify audience personas with Socialbakers.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The Stories feature allows you to interact more directly and transparently with your audience, but these Stories are deleted after 24 hours from the top of the feed. More Stories mean more chances to attract the audience’s attention. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Influencer marketing is about growing your audience and leveraging the voice of well-connected people … but using influencers with the biggest audiences isn’t always the answer. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Use Content to Get Your Audience to Trust You. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Recruitment Marketing Editorial Team Editorial 102

Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you want your content to drive maximum value, finding opportunities to engage audiences is just as critical as the content itself. If that’s the case, you’ll have to find a way to get your content in front of a bigger audience. Blog Engage. Choose not by price, but by where members of your audience are active.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

In this post, I help you make sense of two influencer marketing tactics – the roundup blog post and the influencer-authored blog post. It’s simple in concept: Feature the thoughts of several industry influencers in a blog post or some other form of content to drive earned media traffic and brand awareness.

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Recruitment Marketing Brand Awareness Editorial Team 109

Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you want results with less effort – and it makes sense for your audiences – think about localized markets. Building a multi-language content marketing team doesn’t require a huge budget, but it requires some thought and planning. Discuss the article’s goal, scope, target audience, and target queries. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2019

few short years ago, simply writing useful articles regularly was enough to keep your audience engaged and see your SEO rankings steadily grow. With content marketing becoming more complicated and integrated, your editorial calendar should grow up too. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

No matter how far AI advances go, software will never replace a human for crafting an insightful and meaningful blog post. In the following example, when a new item is published to my blog, it’s automatically posted to my Facebook page. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Cost: Free.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Taken for its denotative meaning, clickbait does what all content marketers want – it entices the audience to click on the headline and consume their content. The problem with clickbait, says Gregory Golinski, head of digital marketing at YourParkingSpace.co.uk, is that it’s a one-sided deal with your audience. aselepak Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Most of the 4 million blog posts published each day get lost in the noise. Write for your niche audience persona – Each business has (or should have) a unique value proposition to offer a unique set of customers. Specifically, that’s the audience persona you created when you put together your content marketing strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your team has developed audience personas and knows which topics and keywords resonate with your audience. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team. I hit that wall, then figured out a solution – a process to build content teams in a short time with relative ease.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I break these tools into four groups – social media and audience-building, distribution tools outside of social media, SEO and outreach, and promotion-enhancement tools. Social media and audience-building. A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development. Think of it like a blog that anyone can post to. Distribution.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 29, 2018

And unless you reshare your content regularly, the majority of your audience won’t know it exists. For example, if you are on WordPress, you can use one of the available pre-made zaps to post your new WP posts to your Facebook page. Get Slack notifications for new comments on your WordPress blog posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

There is a way to solve that problem, and create content that Google loves, while building a library of content that’s super useful to your target audience. Then several supporting blog posts – clusters – are written to explain sub-topics based on your pillar content and generate internal links to the pillar page. Heading tags.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

Capital Group succeeded because it positioned its content to provide answers its audience is hungry for – answers it’s uniquely capable of providing. Capital Group’s content answers audience questions it’s uniquely capable of answering, says @MarciaRJohnston. Stay plugged in to audience needs. Stay plugged in to audience needs.

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Brand Content Editorial Team Editorial 109

Content Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2018

You write more blog posts and social content to promote the original content and hope for small, incremental progress. By partnering, you increase the content’s potential audience. The more partners, the bigger the audience. It’s great for the audience because they don’t have to look for multiple sources.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 6, 2018

Avery tested the websites of companies represented in the Intelligent Content Conference audience. One look at your team’s most recent target audience persona development exercise will remind you the typical customer today is conditioned to expect the best experience with every commercial encounter. Click To Tweet.

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Landing Page Editorial Team Recruitment Editorial 103

Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2017

If you are familiar with content curation , you know it typically involves third-party content – taking great insights you’ve discovered and putting your brand’s spin on it (making sure you credit the original source, of course) to create something new and useful for your audience. Do your keyword research. Uncover sentiment clues.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The ads weren’t necessarily bad, they were simply not reaching the right audience. When it comes to Facebook advertising, it is crucial to know your customers well enough to create a highly targeted Facebook ad audience. You must have a good audience match for people to engage with your campaign. KarolaKarlson Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 23, 2018

Everyone knows a good content marketing team shares content with its audience; it also shares content among the members. Are you providing critical knowledge to your team and do your people know where to find it? Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 28, 2018

Instead of getting a statistical generalization of the optimal time for posting content, the prescriptive model is more specific to each follower. You need to have a tool that can access personalized data about your individual audience members and give valuable information regarding each of their social media habits.

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Social Media Media Editorial Team Editorial 107

Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When it comes to nurturing an audience, email is the go-to for 87% of B2B content marketers, according to CMI research. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors (or, in this case, survey respondents), not the CMI editorial team. @cmicontent #research Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. Content marketers never have had as much insight into audience’s interests, struggles and intents as they do now. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For the sake of marketing budgets, audience engagement and experience, and ROI, let’s push things forward. Objectives like “educate our audience” or “raise awareness” sound valid. I’ve seen creative briefs that give little detail on audience or, worse, state the video is for multiple audiences. Let me qualify that.

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Marketing Editorial Team Promotion Social Media 111

Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

You know audiences now are used to receiving information almost at the speed of light. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Website Editorial Team Landing Page Script 102

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Imagine you publish two blog posts. Because the sites are not targeting the same topic or audience, Google triggers a manual penalty and the additional backlinks backfire. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

With just over 100 million monthly active users in nearly 200 countries, its audience falls evenly along generational lines — millennial, generation X, and baby boomer — as well as gender lines. you’re essentially surfing the web to find vetted and targeted content from and for your audience. When you’re on Scoop.it!,

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Collaboration Content Editorial Editorial Team 111

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 2018

Each row should have a blog post URL and its corresponding focus topic. Identify any posts that serve as pillar pages or have the potential to do so. Use whatever your audience might find relevant and helpful. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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