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How Zapier Built a Content Marketing Machine

Ahrefs

That was the challenge I faced when I became the second member of Zapier’s editorial team in 2014. Zapier’s team had built a tool to automate your tedious business tasks. Anything you could do by copying and pasting—tweeting new blog … Read more ›

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Press Releases Are My Secret to Marketing on a Small Budget: Here’s How I Do It With No PR Background

Buffer

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 Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

Content Marketing Institute

I learned content distribution, syndication, and SEO very much by accident. 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.

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5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process

Content Marketing Institute

It’s a hazard of the job for content marketers. When you read or see a piece of high-quality content, you wonder how it got created. You ask yourself, “What does this company do to create great content? The simple answer is high-quality content serves both audience and business. Is it great for business too?”.

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How to Find and Reuse Your Best Content [Tools]

Content Marketing Institute

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. This list of practical tools can help you give your existing content a new life.

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How to Do a Content Audit in a Few Hours

Content Marketing Institute

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.). Impossible, you say.

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Rising to High Editorial Expectations as a Writer

Kayleigh Moore

Maybe you’ll find a thing or two you can add to your own editorial process. I can 100% guarantee that your content will be better (and perform better!) The screening process helps the editorial team gauge a writer’s skill level and attention to detail. Content and context. Well, let me break it down for you.

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