Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 7, 2024

What’s going on with content and marketing celebrating Pride Month? Some brands have cut back in publicizing their support of the LGBTQ+ communities; others have cut back on their celebration of Pride. What’s a marketer to think and do?

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Freelance Union

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Do you ever feel like your brand goes unnoticed by your audience? Strategic planning for brand visibility is essential to compellingly showcase your products, services, mission, and expertise in memorable fashion. Drag and drop websites, content templates for social, email & sms marketing, event platforms, products- anything!

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Each sentence is the start of a brand-new story. And somehow, in one sentence, these stories have the power to capture our attention and spark our curiosity—something content marketers aim for with every piece they create. How can we get creative with content marketing? It’s my job to live and breathe our brand.”

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

If you think being conversational and customer-centric is enough for your brand voice, you’re only going to join a chorus of clones. Developing a distinctive voice defines your brand’s unique identity and builds a sense of authenticity with customers—an increasingly important factor in sales. Getting there isn’t easy, though.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In today’s competitive digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking new ways to maximize their return on investment (ROI) from content marketing. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), marketing teams can scale their content marketing operations and businesses can use AI to effectively tell their brand story.

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Express Writers

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Content quality plays a direct role in how customers perceive your brand. Engaging, well-written content establishes authority and trustworthiness, showing customers that a brand values their time and business. Their content ended up being plagiarized, poorly written, and riddled with basic language mistakes.

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Backlinko

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Want to create a content marketing strategy that actually works? Through content marketing, Backlinko attracts over 772,000 monthly sessions. We’ll show you (step by step) how to create a content strategy that drives consistent, long-term traffic. It helps you tailor your content to your audience’s specific interests and needs.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s okay to share personal stories that don’t fit our brand. We’re not brands, we’re humans. The most human content helps connect. Human content wins. Stories are the perfect antidote to mediocre AI-generated content. You know what’s my second most commented post ever? The best writing is personal.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Too many freelancers believe that creating a brand starts and ends with the creation of a clever logo and a nifty tagline. The final expression of your brand, in words and images, comes right at the end of the process of brand creation. Because, as a freelancer, your brand is YOU. And their name is their brand.

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Contently

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tie that same concept into content marketing, and you’ve got gamified content. In other words, content that incorporates common features found in games, like puzzles, points, leaderboards, and badges. Here’s a look at why gamified content works so well in brand marketing and ways to start playing with it.

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Buffer

JULY 31, 2024

Content curation is like being your audience’s personal algorithm. Just as an algorithm curates a feed for every user — putting content they’d like front and center — you separate the wheat from the chaff and collate info your followers would want in an organized way. How are you any different?

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Ahrefs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Take the famous Michelin guide Branded content is mass-appeal media or entertainment content that’s either sponsored, commissioned, or created by a company. Think Netflix-style documentaries for SaaS marketers, or short films directed by clothing brands. Audiences connect with branded content … Read more ›

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Backlinko

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Information gain measures how unique and valuable your content is compared to existing content. It’s what makes your content fresh—often leading to better rankings. I interviewed three content leaders in various industries about their best work. Your content should satisfy the user’s primary search intent.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Remember when every brand seemed to be having a “ brat summer ?” But in recent years, the concept of timeliness in a content marketing calendar has become less about utility and more about jumping on trends for the sake of relevancy. But timely content doesn’t need to (and, in my opinion, shouldn’t) pander.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This changes everything about how your content needs to be structured and delivered. This subtle but critical difference impacts how your brand gets discovered and recommended in AI-powered conversations. This subtle but critical difference impacts how your brand gets discovered and recommended in AI-powered conversations.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I’ve been a content writer for SaaS for almost a decade now… well, I mean, a freelancer, not just a writer. As a SaaS writer, I learned how important content writing is for a marketing strategy, not only with my own business but also with B2B SaaS companies. This is similar to what I do with my audience.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Still, when I set about refreshing more than 10 years’ worth of branded content to bring The Content Strategist up to date with our current web optimization and brand standards, I knew I had my work cut out for me. We wanted a data-backed action plan for making our content as relevant as possible in 2024 and beyond.

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Nick Ursborne

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This post is specifically for copywriters and content creators who are already familiar with the basics of LLMs (Large Language Models) and are ready to take their AI skills to the next level. Think of yourself as a conductor, guiding the AI orchestra to produce a symphony of content. In this post I worked with Gemini 1.5

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Contently

AUGUST 15, 2024

High-quality individual pieces of content marketing don’t just happen in a vacuum – you need goals, a content calendar, competitor, audience and SEO research, and more! In other words, you need a content strategy. Read on for the essential elements of how to create a successful content marketing strategy.

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Copywriter Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Instead of getting positive results, your content has a high bounce rate, low engagement, and does not lead your audience to convert. Maybe, its not that the content is bad but the right content that your audience needs is not met enough. The answer to this could be a content map. First, What is Content Mapping?

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Contently

AUGUST 23, 2024

Having great ideas is only part of the package when it comes to delivering high-quality, compelling content. You’ve also got to have the right framework in place, otherwise known as a content strategy. A thorough content strategy template can bring everything all in one place to help ensure you’re on track to meet your goals.

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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These are: Content leads CEOs Strategists Copywriters/freelancers So, how can you be active on LinkedIn and not waste time doing this? Since my niche is digital marketing for SaaS brands, I can work with many types of brands that fall under digital marketing. Currently, I’m taking a writing hooks course for social media.

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Kayleigh Moore

MAY 8, 2023

Think about the content you seek out in your free time. For years, companies and content marketers have been approaching content creation from topic-first angle. Of course this type of content creation still has its place. The newsletters you read. The podcasts you listen to. The YouTube channels you subscribe to.

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iWriter

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As the calendar flips to a new year, it’s not just an opportunity for fresh beginnings; it’s also the perfect time to rethink your content strategy. In a digital landscape that evolves at lightning speed, consistent content has become the cornerstone of effective communication and audience engagement.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2024

On one hand, they appreciate brands that offer extensive thought leadership. On the other hand, they know every content and marketing tactic in the book. Marketers are a tough crowd. New research offers insights (and a peek inside your peers’ opinions).

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Jane Friedman

JULY 31, 2024

Here are two of the tarot exercises that helped Nina—and many of my clients—discover and solidify their brands. Which means that when she’s representing her business—through online content, at networking events, or in client meetings, she refers back to the Fool as a guiding light for how she wants to be seen, and how she wants to interact.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

A small sports apparel brand made a fresh marketing play that gained global attention and a spot at the Olympics alongside the biggest brands in the world. Take note (and inspiration) to help your marketing game.

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Elna Cain

MAY 8, 2023

You go through the onboarding process with your new client, and they give you a content brief in the next few days. You write the content and source examples and use Grammarly to check for errors. What Is AI-Generated Content? This tool will tell you if the content is likely AI or not. So you get to work. This is wrong.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Generative AI refers to technology that uses machine learning models to create content. These models can produce various content formats, including code, text, visuals, audio, and video. OpenAIs ChatGPT is a popular example of a model that understands and produces textual content. It also generates outlines and creative content.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

If you’re Micky Onvural, you accept the challenge of repositioning a “stuffy” financial services brand as a thought leader for tomorrow. What would you tackle next after serving as CEO of a successful e-commerce apparel company? Here's the story of how she did it.

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ContentWriters

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As a marketing executive or content strategist, you know content is a vital business asset that generates leads and establishes a market position. Content idea generators can help you develop strategic topic clusters and ensure your content strategy stays ahead of the curve while delivering measurable ROI.

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Contently

AUGUST 30, 2024

But fear not; there’s a secret weapon that can lift your brand above the noise: customer storytelling. And companies that are able to gain the trust of their customers outsell their competitors by up to “400% in terms of total market value” and customers are 88% more likely to buy again if they trust the brand.

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Backlinko

JULY 22, 2024

It’s always been about helpful content, thoughtful user experience, strong branding, and earning quality backlinks. So, choose a domain name that’s: Relevant and reflects your business or brand name Easy to remember and pronounce Concise—avoid long and complex names. And recommended tools along the way (some free and some paid).

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 16, 2024

How can brands invest in social media personalities who aren't likely to enter into risky political talk? One-fourth of U.S. companies say influencer spending will take 40% of their total marketing budget. New AI tools can help.

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Backlinko

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Googles three Core Web Vitals. What Does Largest Contentful Paint Even Mean? Largest Contentful Paint measures how long it takes for the main content of your webpage to appear on your users screenwhether that’s a hero image, heading, or block of text.

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iWriter

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Have you ever wondered how high-quality content can impact your business’s bottom line? In today’s digital world, well-crafted content is more than just words on a page—it’s a powerful tool that drives engagement, builds trust, and ultimately boosts return on investment (ROI). Ready to learn how quality content can maximize your ROI?

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ContentWriters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

SEO is still crucial for effective content marketing–even as consumers switch from Google to AI tools in their searches. This move highlights the growing focus on user experience and the importance of intent, content quality, and delivering fast, accurate answers. To stay ahead, marketers must adapt their SEO content strategies.

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