Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

When my sister and I started Vinat to make buying wine online more accessible, I thought that any kind of PR was going to be prohibitively expensive for our small brand. Previously, I had worked in corporate finance, so I knew exactly how much the companies I worked for spent on engagements with PR firms.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

“We were hiding our light under a bushel,” says Will McKenna, describing the company’s marketing efforts in the talk he and Fred Macri gave at Content Marketing World 2017: Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Crafting a Successful Content Brand in an 86-Year-Old Enterprise. Create a content brand: Capital Ideas. They’re out on CNBC.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 25, 2018

Someone is discussing your brand and you better be there to listen and participate. Consider these three ways to turn those brand mentions into content assets. You generate more exposure for those favorable brand mentions and thus create a more powerful digital context around your brand. The web is open and public.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 26, 2018

There’s also a good chance other stress-inducing concerns include your tech stack and/or your team. Your peers – even at brands lauded for their content approach – struggle with the same issues. Challenge: Stay true to the editorial mission and show value to the company. Build a Content Brand. Well, guess what?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your Content Team Can Sprint With Agile Marketing. 7 Best Practices (and Tools) for Managing Your Remote Content Team. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s note: Given the never-ending need for metrics to prove the value of your content, we wanted to bring back this article published last year about how to measure brand awareness. Before you create content to boost brand awareness, it’s important to consider whether you’re creating the right type of content. Take infographics.

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Publishing Trends

AUGUST 1, 2023

At Penguin Children’s , Gerard Mancini , vice president, executive director managing editorial & production editorial will retire in December. Mancini joined the Viking Children’s editorial team in the fall of 1985. Hinton, Jacqueline Woodson, Mildred Taylor, Jon Scieszka, Roald Dahl and others.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

If your business is thinking about indulging its inner technophile, let these cool content examples from intrepid brands inspire you to swallow the red pill and enter the Matrix-like world of machine-driven storytelling. Give consumers a voice in your brand stories. The robot even has its own Twitter handle. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Now I’ve started my own company helping businesses of all types develop editorial and content strategies that make sense. There are variations of this arrangement.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. Either way, you’re probably curious about what it looks like for a brand to run a media organization. What can organizations do to ensure that the brand –and its audiences – benefit?

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 29, 2018

Mintent: Build your editorial calendar (free version). An editorial calendar is essential for content marketing. Mintent is content marketing software to help you keep track of campaigns and content assets and it offers a robust editorial calendar. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2018

Start by studying iQ’s five-year evolution as the iQ team replaced its marketing mindset with a publishing one. Without building a loyal audience, iQ’s editorial team couldn’t hope to achieve what they’ve set out to do. They don’t outsource their front-page news and editorial content. The evolution of iQ by Intel.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

The true challenge of becoming a successful (brand) publisher is sustaining an audience, says @LukeKintigh. This is a particularly valuable group to Intel because they care deeply about the topics iQ shares and can help steer the program’s editorial strategy. Consider how the team treated a series devoted to virtual reality.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

CMI’s recent content management and strategy research confirms that while 92% of respondents say their brands view content as a business asset, few marketers have the processes and tools to make this a reality. This shared understanding of people’s challenges also helps teams align organization-wide messaging and optimization.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It also requires 3-5 years of experience in social media, brand, or project management. They aim to boost brand and product awareness and drive sales using various media types. They also have SEO knowledge, comfort with technology, and experience launching successful campaigns.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 23, 2018

Almost all B2C and 96% of B2B brands rely on internal resources to execute their content marketing program. These in-house providers range from small or centralized teams serving the entire organization to individuals leading department efforts. But what makes a team exceptional? Additional tips for a powerful team.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Providing a video-based educational experience allows you to: Position your brand as a niche authority. Design courses as you want, add your branding, use your own domain, and use marketing automation and email marketing features to engage more students based on where they are in the course. Give your audience more reasons to convert.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

Pro: This niche channel is dedicated to sports and gaming – making it a perfect match for B2C brands with a younger audience. The program left a man (dubbed Nature Man) in the woods for three days and let Twitch users control his movements – exactly the type of brand-led livestream that works on that site.@Twitch NowMG Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Outperform Fortune 500 Brands on Instagram [Research]. You can use two types of hashtags in your Instagram campaigns – branded or community. Branded hashtags make your post easier to find for people who already know your company and are looking to find out more about it. Powerful hashtags.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 15, 2019

Over 80% of people say they prefer to watch a live video than read social media posts, and four in five say they prefer to view a video from a brand than to read a blog, according to a survey from Livestream and New York Magazine. 4 of 5 people would rather watch a brand’s videos than read its blog. Remember to test.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn. Align with your brand story. Step 10: Incorporate your ideas into your editorial calendar.

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Editorial Content Editorial Team Projects 93

Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle. These are not people who charge money or make a career out of influencer marketing; they are real people who enjoy the opportunity to engage with our brands.

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Recruitment Marketing Editorial Team Editorial 102

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. Great for: Influencer discovery, market research, trend discovery, analyzing competing brands, driving brand reach. Pricing: Free for limited access.

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Social Media Media Editorial Team Collaboration 104

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

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. This approach can be quite fruitful for a brand because each contributor has an audience and a vested interest in their content being successful. Click To Tweet.

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Recruitment Marketing Brand Awareness Editorial Team 109

Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

Instagram presents a huge problem for brands. Still, it makes sense to brand your profile with a clear and attractive logo. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Outperform Fortune 500 Brands on Instagram [Research]. To do this for your brand, you can easily set up a landing page like Foundr’s using a tool like Leadpages.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 29, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 22 Examples From Brands (and Marketers) That are Winning at Content Marketing. PaulHorstmeier tore down #email gates & turned @HealthCatalyst into trusted brand. 17 No-Cost Ways Writers Can Extend Reach of Their Editorial. Tear down the gates – except when they provide value to the visitor.

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Content Marketing Marketing Editorial Content 107

Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An 8-Step Process to Use Influencers to Elevate Your Brand. Regardless, they improve brand awareness and make your future marketing efforts more impactful. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Know If Your Content Impacts Brand Awareness [Tools]. Click To Tweet. Invitations to appear on podcasts.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How 3 Serious Brands Engage Humanly on Social Media. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors or sources, not the CMI editorial team. Social media really is for socializing. ChristinKardos Click To Tweet. Mind the machine. Registration is open. Sign up today. .

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Social Media Management Media Editorial Team 111

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 6, 2018

Google’s recent rollout of mobile-first indexing proves brands willing to (once again) put users first will look better in the eyes of the search giant. And if that isn’t attractive enough, she argues that your brand’s user experience can (and should) compete with the users’ best-ever experience. Wearables. “It

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Content Powered

JULY 22, 2022

They're likely using Forbes to build their brands and be contributors and journalists, so it's likely that they even have a contact email published somewhere easy to find. To become a writer on VentureBeat, I had to fly to San Francisco, buy a ticket to their conference, and rub shoulders with the editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 11, 2018

Social monitoring to see when your brand or your competitors are mentioned. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An 8-Step Process to Use Influencers to Elevate Your Brand. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. Ahrefs for SEO, keyword research, and more.

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Content Marketing Marketing Content Editorial Team 111

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Here’s how it works: The Quuu community submits unique social posts through Quuu Promote into categories that are reviewed by Quuu’s editorial board to ensure quality. With a UI that resembles social networks, Smarp specializes in employee advocacy: the art of leveraging staff at all levels to become brand ambassadors.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This is great news if you’re an avid Stories user and bad news if you’re a brand trying to stand out in the crowd. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. Launched in August 2016, Stories has taken over, with over 400 million users sharing them every single day.

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Editorial Team Text Editorial Content Marketing 111

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It allows you to create Facebook Messenger bots to engage your customers in real time and serve your brand-owned assets once they ask for them. You can set the bot to serve content that matches user intent by enabling a trigger using “broad-match” keywords to serve users the brand-owned content when they are asking for it.

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Editorial Team Content Editorial Communication 98

Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2018

His advice works well for brands seeking to be expert resources or have their content be the featured snippet on the Google search results page. Eman Zabi, copywriter and brand strategist at The Scribesmith, says the trick is to write a killer headline with a hook and follow through with an equally good article. derek_gleason?

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Is your brand deliberately centered on readability? Too much content, particularly on websites, is me-me-me – the brand only talks about itself. Edit to minimize the number of long words but don’t make everything as readable as possible to the detriment of your brand message. What about you? Avoid doing that at all costs.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2018

But it’s expected to introduce a CRM feature to allow brands to measure their relationship with their customers in the same place they automate their email workflow. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. What tasks do you automate? Please share in the comments.

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