Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 16, 2021

Continue reading → The post How to Build the Best Relationship With Freelance Content Creators [New Research] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. These research-backed ideas will help you connect for the long term.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 10, 2018

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. I hit that wall, then figured out a solution – a process to build content teams in a short time with relative ease.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Has the ubiquity of content creator in the creator economy made things problematic? Explore the identity crisis for content marketers, for job seekers, employers, and the employed. Does your title accurately describe your role?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Let’s talk about content marketing. Content marketing continues to flourish for one very simple reason: it’s what the people want. People want high quality, useful, relevant, and engaging content about things that matter to them. Craig Davis , the former Chief Creative Officer at marketing communications firm J.

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BKA Content

JANUARY 14, 2025

How To Outrank Your Competitors Using Google Gemini for SEO What if you could get direct insights on improving your content from Google? By using Google Gemini for SEO purposes, theres a way to identify why your content isnt ranking and learn how to make it better than your competitors. Good newsyou can. Thats a missed opportunity.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketers who blog regularly receive 55 percent more website visitors and 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. Organizations that prioritize content marketing receive 13X more ROI than those that don’t. It’s no secret that content marketing works. Email engagement (e.g.,

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Where does that leave the millions and millions of other “content opportunities”? Innovative marketers are embracing a solution – the slow content marketing movement. If your aim is to drive leads, you don't need to make more #content, just more effective content. How to do slow content marketing.

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Buffer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

I'm a verbal processor, and knowing that about myself has completely changed how I approach content creation and setting up my workflows to support how I do my best work. Tools for content creation Finally, the last stage is turning that text into potential social posts. Apple Notes already does this, so that has been my default.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2017

A glance through Content Marketing Institute’s recently published posts, Growthhackers Must Read articles, or BuzzSumo’s most-shared marketing content from the past six months makes it clear – one blog post framework seems to be winning: How (Company You Know) Is Doing (Something) to Achieve (Positive Result).

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

You already know that WordPress is a popular CMS and that most content marketers love it for their business or personal blog. Did you know that your success as a content marketer goes beyond writing great content ? Trust me; it’s not as easy as you think. Can you find one? Sure you can. What more could you want?

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2019

If your role involves commissioning and approving content, you probably know that same sinking feeling: You’re 10 seconds into reviewing a piece and it’s already obvious the creator hasn’t understood a damn thing you told them. In truth, even your best writer, designer, or audiovisual content creator is capable of turning in a bad job.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What’s the first step to creating unique, differentiated content? Analyze the content created in your market. You need to know what your neighbors, friends, and competitors are publishing to ensure that you’re creating the most engaging, differentiated content. Evaluate content quantity and quality. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. Every creative asset you produce needs to be supported by strategic decisions – from crafting ideas into a cohesive message to selecting the content types and distribution formats that let your ideas work their magic.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We know how important it is for content marketers to tie their results to marketing and business goals, so we’ve updated it with new suggestions and resources. What does it mean that your content marketing is “working?” In general, this means it’s supporting your marketing and business goals. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This article is the follow-up to an August post about 25 frequently asked questions about content marketing. Do you get asked tough, or even easy, questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing. What is content marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Week after week since January 2015, CMI has sent a Content Strategy for Marketers e-newsletter written by CMI Chief Strategy Advisor Robert Rose. In this newsletter, Robert delivers marketing insights through a zen sensibility, leaving many of us inspired as businesspeople and as people. Yes, we marketers wear many hats.

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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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Buffer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Or found a piece of content you worked on a while ago that could do with a refresh and redistribution? These days, with the right automations, you can skip the chaos and jump straight into crafting killer content without the headache of managing it all manually.

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Shorthand Content Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2023

For anyone interested in content marketing and using it to their advantage, there have been many great content marketing books published over the past 25 years that can help. Both elements are equally important when it comes to creating a successful content marketing strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 7, 2018

Do you feel like you’re constantly explaining content marketing? Whether you’re seeking initial buy-in or justifying an existing program to a new executive, you’re often asked to prove that content marketing is a worthy investment. If you can’t get support behind your content efforts, how can you be successful?

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 2, 2023

Stop buying into the trope, “AI won’t replace you, but someone using AI will.” Yes, humans are the differentiator but not like that (unless you have a misguided boss). Continue reading →

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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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ContentWriters

APRIL 12, 2023

Content marketing is one of the most crucial and creative components of a marketing strategy — it incorporates content creation, distribution, and promotion. In fact, according to recent surveys, 54% of businesses will increase their content marketing budgets this year, highlighting its significance.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 5, 2021

If content creators forget this crucial step, your content will miss the mark with your audience. Here’s an acronym to help you and your content team remember it. Continue reading → The post Want Better Content? Make Sure Your Team Knows This TRUTH appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Too often, content creators are left in the dark about their content’s performance – the very numbers that are monitored to determine how well it’s working. Continue reading → The post How to Create a Performance Dashboard for Your Content Team [Tools] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 23, 2020

Factually wrong content is bad. Welcome to the content creators’ and editors’ fact-checking checklist. Continue reading → The post Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. Let’s make this simple.

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BKA Content

APRIL 4, 2023

10 Content Marketing Tools You Should Be Using ​Although content marketing has become standard practice for businesses big and small, not everyone with a content strategy feels as though their program is actually effective. What Are the Best Content Marketing Tools?

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Article Writing

MAY 8, 2023

Content marketing generates upwards of 3x more traffic than traditional marketing, among a gazillion other benefits. If you’re still hesitating to jump on board to outsourcing your content marketing because of the potential failures, here are some ways to turn the potential Cons into advantages. That’s fine!

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Successful content creators realize writing for your audience isn’t different from writing for search engines. Here are 13 tools to help create valuable content that audiences discover and consume.

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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. 50,000: Engage with an industry-specific freelance writer or visual content creator to enhance the content around a strategic business message.

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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. How businesses optimize for SEO is changing. The solution?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Don’t panic about keeping up with progressive content trends like these. Remember while it’s tempting to pour all your content team’s energies and resources into the next big thing to hit the digital marketplace, sustainable, long-term success with content marketing first requires a mastery of the fundamentals.

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ContentWriters

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Learning how to become the best content writer requires more than a computer and strong writing skills. With an average of more than 6 million posts published daily , the demand for exceptional content writers is high. What is Content Writing? This increasing reliance on content marketing is why content writers are in demand.

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BKA Content

JANUARY 3, 2024

12 Content Marketing Tips To Help Grow Your Business in 2024 Modern customers care about brand identity. To win the war for hearts and wallets, you need high-quality content that connects with people. Use these 12 content marketing tips to make a great impression throughout 2024.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

If you’re looking for a holiday gift book to advance the recipient’s content marketing skills, I have good news. During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Drivers of content marketing. Messages are filtered for relevance in real time.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

If you’re a chief content officer , copywriter, designer, or programmer searching for ways to create more and better content in less time, you’ll find fresh ideas for improving your creativity, productivity, and writing skills with these best books from 2017. A search of Amazon.com for “marketing books” returns 324,225 titles.

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