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

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

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.”. Pam Didner , author, Global Content Marketing.

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

  We typically post an announcement about every press release we send out on our Instagram, company LinkedIn, and each of our personal LinkedIn profiles. For example, my sister has a friend who works at a major publication in NYC, so she shared the release with her and ended up getting invited to host a happy hour for the editorial team.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Created by an in-house editorial team, with help from publishing company McSweeney’s, the content includes personal essays, comedic advice columns, and other stories about resting, relaxing, and recharging. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration.

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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. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An Alternative Approach to Developing Content Marketing Personas. Create shows, raid for content.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Those marketers who regularly listen to This Old Marketing are CMI’s true fans … they are more likely to come to Content Marketing World , attend one of our master classes , purchase training , attend our webinars , engage in our content, and talk about us on social media.

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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. I’m not talking about paid , cost-per-click-oriented content discovery channels like Outbrain (though these tools can be highly effective in a few ways). Google eyes syndicated content.

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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

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. But that doesn’t mean just posting any video on any page and expecting a return. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: What to Do After You Press Record: A Formula for Videos People Love. You need to create videos for your website.

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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

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

JANUARY 2, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: An Easy-to-Apply Framework to Build Your (New or Mature) Content Marketing Team. People have a misconception about what it means to be a marketing expert. If this week we are trying to promote sales for Content Marketing World, for example, I can go into Sigstr and add that promotion.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 23, 2018

When I’m in super-focused research mode, listening to a blog post also allows me to take furious notes underlining keywords and drawing pictures – like a more manic and messy version of one of those professional sketch-note drawers I see at conferences. Use @evernote for to-do lists, content ideas, business plans, notes, etc.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Our agency team came up with the idea of creating what we call a Goodness Circle. It’s a year-round program with a dozen bloggers; we contract them to write a certain number of posts about our brand each year. It’s not about who has the most friends, but those whose friends are most likely to react when they post something on Facebook.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2018

I discovered iQ while writing this post. Today’s savvy content marketers are at least eyeing if not yet adopting the business model established by media organizations. Start by studying iQ’s five-year evolution as the iQ team replaced its marketing mindset with a publishing one. The evolution of iQ by Intel.

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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. I love using Airtable to create an organized content database.

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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. TIP: Instagram limits users to 30 hashtags per post.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 29, 2018

It’s time for a reminder that the strategic use of typography, color, and white space can drastically improve the efficacy and aesthetics of visual content. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27+ Handy Tools for Better Visual Content Marketing . No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

Even if we wanted to use in-your-face dropdowns begging for an address, we had no special content to offer. 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.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2017

How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. Instead of posting to the blog every day of the week, we’re moving to a Monday through Friday schedule. 11, PNR goes on hiatus.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 5, 2018

As with any content marketing initiative, avoid the one-and-done approach. Con: Content creators on YouNow have no control over comments, which poses a big risk for brands. Is livestream a component of your content marketing? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Create Sticky Content With 3 Livestreaming Apps.

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Buffer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This level is reserved for “senior-level experts and leaders” They're handpicked by the LinkedIn Editorial team, who vet new creators regularly, the platform says.   It’s also worth playing around with different post formats to find your sweet spot.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 27, 2018

Then I came across a blog post describing how an online publication drove leads and built a multimillion-dollar business from Instagram. It doesn’t let you add clickable links in post descriptions or comments the way other social networks do. And quote posts are easy to put together. Zorzini shares how. Click To Tweet.

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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

JUNE 25, 2018

Encourage more sites to mention your brand (in hopes you’ll include them in your content too). Here’s how we did it for one project: Published post monthly rounding up the brand’s mentions in blog articles and videos. The key is to include monitoring-related content in your content planning. Share in the comments.

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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. Your editorial calendar should involve collaboration, analytics #tools, and more, says @seosmarty. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Content marketing heavily relies on technology, which means it evolves quickly. Mobile search, video marketing, SEO – all of that has been changing and advancing content marketing for the past few years. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Road Map to Success: Content Distribution Essentials That Win Eyeballs.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

He did just that at Content Marketing World in his talk, How the Enterprise Marketing Department Can Build and Scale Media. This post reviews Victor’s story of what Arrow Electronics has learned from its bold foray into the media business. If an editorial team is really good, don’t mess with them, says @wvictorgao.

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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. The team knows what to do, and when and how to do it. Train the team.

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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

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: 7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Road Map to Success: Content Distribution Essentials That Win Eyeballs. 19 Favorite Tools for Content Promotion in 2018. Involve influencers in content promotion early. Most content marketers are familiar with influencer outreach. Update and expand existing posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It’s used by both B2B and B2C organizations to streamline their content marketing strategy. An SEO strategy that focuses on topics rather than keywords, the model is an intent-based approach that simplifies blog archives by creating content around one central topic – referred to as the “pillar” page or post.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 24, 2019

Under the Publish tab on the main menu, you can schedule and publish posts to your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. Under the Reply tab under Team Inbox, you can access and monitor your brand’s social mentions. Click Discover on the main navigation pane to explore popular posts based on keywords, events, or hashtags.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 2018

Here’s a crash course on three advanced SEO techniques to help you get more conversions and better ranking from content you’re creating. Ready to take your content marketing expertise to the next level? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original version of this post a couple years ago. We’re sharing Aaron’s updated version today, as more efficient teamwork is a constant need for content marketers. As content marketers, we have our work cut out for us. Getting original ideas off the ground is hard enough.

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