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? It is all in how you grow it.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

I doubt any marketing team can perfect its SEO and content marketing efforts. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018. Time spent on a page matters with SEO and content marketing. Generally, you want people to visit and make their way to other content pages.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

As content marketers, we are always reminded of the need to focus on our audience and their needs. In a way, this relationship gives each marketer the privilege of mentoring consumers by the thousands. Document your content marketing mission statement.”. If you document it, you can achieve it.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Clearly, you’ll be in good company if you “steal” the content marketing ideas in this column. In fact, it’s becoming a tradition (and some might say a stolen idea) for CMI to offer cool tips gathered from some of the hottest marketing talents in the business. This year we steal from the Content Marketer of the Year finalists.

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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. With $100,000, I’d test dynamic content recommendation engines for email. 1,000: Take the marketing team to dinner.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Take Your Travel Content on a Better Trip. 4 Reasons You Should Act on Influencer Marketing. A cheesy marketing stunt? Sure, but one that’s on brand for a company known for its wacky content. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration.

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

  This cost us a third of the price of influencer marketing tests we had done and drove far more sales and visibility.   Maximize each release Press releases are multifaceted marketing tools, as they can be used for promotion on other channels as well.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 23, 2018

Use @evernote for to-do lists, content ideas, business plans, notes, etc. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 Apps and Tools Obsessed by Content Marketers. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Successful content marketers on this social platform tailor their content to take advantage of the channel’s strengths, from hashtags and Stories to advertising and live video. Let’s explore how to use these features to maximize your content marketing strategy. Adaptable Instagram Ads. Learn more. Watch more.

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Buffer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“It helped me grow by 300 followers in the past one to two weeks,” Christina Garnett , Principal Marketing Manager, Offline Community and Advocacy at HubSpout, says of her Community Top Voice badge. The campaign has resulted in a spike in both user-generated content (UGC) and traffic for the platform. 

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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. 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.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2018

Today’s savvy content marketers are at least eyeing if not yet adopting the business model established by media organizations. In this model, content has one main job : to build a loyal audience of subscribers. But how do traditional marketers make the switch? Over time, the team made choices that advanced its practices.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The marketing industry is quickly evolving, and marketing jobs are in increasing demand. For example, industry experts expect marketing manager jobs to grow twice as fast as the average employment rate over the next decade. Meanwhile, they expect market research analyst roles to grow nearly four times as fast in the same period.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 22, 2018

Webinars are an important yet underrated content marketing tactic. They provide you the opportunity to create a more interactive content format for your audience. They also are one of the top five types of content that can naturally attract links to your site. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Does your company look at content through customers’ eyes? Here’s one way to tell: Look at your marketing content. A few years ago, the team took a hard look at the company’s content and found that it was heavily oriented toward what Red Hat sells (IaaS solutions, PaaS solutions, Linux solutions, and so on).

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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. What’s the best way for the marketing and media teams to relate to each other? In all cases, the subscribers are electrical engineers, the company’s target market.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Robert Rose and I just completed four years and over 200 episodes of our podcast, This Old Marketing. While far from the most successful marketing podcast on the planet, our one hour of weekly shenanigans has done fairly well. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Podcasting Pioneers Explain Value of Audio Content and Rookie Mistakes to Avoid.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

That said, how do you transcend from a messy spreadsheet or sticky notes on a bulletin board to a comprehensive content marketing engine? Ensure consistency: One of the biggest keys to content marketing success is a consistent posting schedule—it helps your audience stay engaged. Foster a culture of openness.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Can you quantify the impact of your video content on your marketing goals? Can you quantify the impact of your #video content on your marketing goals, asks @apricot_amir. For the sake of marketing budgets, audience engagement and experience, and ROI, let’s push things forward. Old model of video marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Only after I heard Paul Roetzer’s Content Marketing World talk did I realize that my experience represented exactly that: artificial intelligence at work. Try #artificialintelligence in your B2B marketing and don’t wait, says @PaulRoetzer. As a marketer, you’ll never have to understand artificial intelligence in depth.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

In early 2017, the iQ team borrowed a page from the traditional media playbook – focusing on sustaining loyal readers rather than a “more eyeballs” approach. Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. Distribution of your content, particularly with paid media, is also not that hard to do initially.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If you work in a big, established company, a presentation on being a marketer on a small team, especially a small team in a startup, may not seem to apply to you. For most of his 15-plus years in marketing, Vishal has been his organization’s only resource for marketing, communications, and media relations.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 10 Tips (and a Ton of Tricks) to Maximize Your Video Content Investment. Video content sees 41% more search traffic than text or image via @aberdeengroup #research. Video converts more users.

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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. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Only 10 Ways to Make Money From Content Marketing. But it absolutely can be done.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 29, 2018

Given the power of visual content (it’s more memorable and more engaging than text-based content), many marketers have turned to DIY graphic design software or contracted with graphic artists. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27+ Handy Tools for Better Visual Content Marketing . 4-7 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2018

Christin Kardos leads social media for Convince and Convert, an organization that teaches marketers how to be socially savvy. As marketers and businesspeople, we know social presents tremendous opportunities for business … but when it’s used only as a broadcast channel, you’re failing to make connections. Essential social mindset.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Content audits are about as popular as colonoscopies but they’re just as necessary to health – in this case, the health of your content marketing strategy. But you likely dread the tedious, time-consuming annual content audit, and reliably and predictably put it off (and sometimes never get it done.).

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 20, 2018

Like all content marketers, you want readers to get the most out of your content. But creating and distributing high-quality content across the increasing number of channels you’re expected to manage takes a lot of time and resources. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Automating Content Reuse: One Marketing Team’s Story.

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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. The content promotion plan is done and the KPIs are set. You begin assigning the content marketing work. And then you hit a wall: You can’t find enough quality content creators to join the team.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

Resolved to do better, in 2016 we began creating premium content monthly. We published lengthier e-books, practical templates , and how-to guides ; we also posted blog content pointing to those premium assets. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. The results came quickly.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

As with any content marketing initiative, avoid the one-and-done approach. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video-Phobic Marketers: It’s Time to Get Over Your Fear of Producing Video. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Instagram Marketing: 4 Features You Should Be Using [Examples]. Embrace consistency. YouTube Live.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

The bio content or text is the most important element. You can drive a flood of leads with a relevant and enticing call to action like this one from an earlier version of Foundr’s profile (“Get Our Free Instagram Marketing 101 Issue!”). Create and share great content. The bio link is also important. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 25, 2018

There’s one fundamental tactic behind brand monitoring online: Promote your promoters – use your marketing channels to drive traffic to content that promotes your business. Use your #marketing channels to drive traffic to #content that promotes your business, says @SEOSmarty. Web mentions into monthly roundups.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

No matter what your content marketing strategy is, keyword research is the fuel. Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

If you need proof of how true his observation is, look no further than the Capital Group, a conservative, trusted financial services company that – until recently ­– lagged far behind its competitors in thought leadership and digital marketing. “We Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Recognize that paid content promotion pays off.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2019

With content marketing becoming more complicated and integrated, your editorial calendar should grow up too. It’s no longer enough to document your planned content assets. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Editorial Calendar Tools and Templates. Use ContentCal to diversify content you market.

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