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How to Be an Agent of Change: Examples From Top Content Marketing Award Winners

Content Marketing Institute

Now in its 14th year, this awards program recognizes the impressive accomplishments of content marketers in categories that span strategy, distribution, editorial, and design. Winner: Project of the Year; Best New Print Publication – Editorial. Winner: Best New Digital Publication – Editorial; Best Overall Editorial – Digital.

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How to Turn Your Content From Lousy to Memorable

Content Marketing Institute

It held the promise of slight entertainment. Let’s look at three memorable communicators. They want to feel cleverer, more informed, or more entertained than they were before reading your content. He had just read a story I wrote about my worst vacation, a trip to Disneyland that my brother won in a sweepstakes. writingtips ?

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27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks

Content Marketing Institute

Credibility means quoting nonpartisan subject matter experts, using data from trusted, objective, neutral sources, and not editorializing. It doesn’t entertain. Ashley Cady, integrated communications manager, Flock and Rally. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video Storytelling Secrets From an Award-Winning Series. Irrelevant.

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What is a Content Marketing Specialist? How Do They Help Your Business?

Shorthand Content Marketing

They offered a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, useful household hints, entertaining puzzles, and other amusements for the reader. The idea of providing valuable, entertaining, desirable information for free (or a low cost) to attract attention to a business or brand is at the core of all content marketing.

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14 Inspiring Quotes Content Marketers Are Thankful They Heard

Content Marketing Institute

With this vision of mentorship in mind, our editorial team asked a few influential experts in the Content Marketing World community to share the best piece of advice they received from someone whom they look up to in the industry or someone who has inspired their content marketing career. You will make a mistake.

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13 Smart Brands Using Technology to Power Their Content

Content Marketing Institute

Fortunately, this means there’s lots of room for today’s more advanced communication technologies to find their footing on the marketing landscape – and plenty of time for businesses to leverage them before falling behind the curve. Voice-activated communication. Click To Tweet. Artificial intelligence in many forms.

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2018 Content Marketing Toolkit: Tips, Templates, and Checklists

Content Marketing Institute

Not only can it help identify and characterize the unique value your company will provide through its content, it’s also a critical component for governing your storytelling efforts and guiding your decision-making throughout the life of your program. Creating an actionable editorial plan. joderama Click To Tweet.