Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 28, 2018

More than once, I’ve had to stop reading a poorly edited book because I couldn’t take off my editor’s hat. Professionals in any industry observe others’ work and silently critique it. That analysis often leads you to one of two results: insight into what you could do better or a welcome relief because you are doing it better. Some of the presenters at Content Marketing World offer their out-loud critiques of what could be done better in content marketing.

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ThemeIsle

AUGUST 27, 2018

If you’re like a lot of bloggers, there’s a good chance you might not have a degree in English or journalism. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn how to write a blog post that your readers will love – you just need the right process! ? When you’re running a WordPress blog, it can. The post How to Write a Blog Post: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Better Content appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

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Jeff Goins

AUGUST 31, 2018

Writing 100

Writing 100

ProBlogger

AUGUST 6, 2018

The post 255: My Mid-Life Crisis and The Power of Being Vulnerable on a Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. The Power of Being Vulnerable with Your Readers. Have you experienced the power of taking a step out of your comfort zone and being vulnerable with your readers? I have long believed in the power of being vulnerable. It can be hard to be vulnerable.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 7, 2018

Wouldn’t it be helpful to know the questions your executives or clients will ask before they pose them to you? You would have the time to think about the answer and tailor your response for the circumstances. Then, when asked, you could respond immediately and thoughtfully, impressing the interrogator. Well, the presenters at Content Marketing World want to help.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 20, 2018

Getting people to click to read your content is hard, whether you’re trying to entice them in an email or tempt them in the search engine results. But once you finally get them on your page, you must work even harder to keep them there. Lots of technical ways can keep them from bouncing (faster load times, minimum pop-ups, clear site navigation, etc.).

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 2, 2018

Henry Ford didn’t invent the car. He made cars accessible and affordable to the masses through an innovative process. Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. And marketing tech tools once available to enterprise-level brands with big budgets are now viable for small and medium-sized businesses too.

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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. No matter the configuration, a well-trained in-house content marketing team is a competitive advantage. But what makes a team exceptional?

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

More people are making their voices heard when they need to search for something. They’re ditching their keyboards for the convenience of “OK, Google.”. For brands, this raises an important question: How do you become the default answer for a voice search query? You know the recent buzz around “ featured snippets ” – the boxes that appear at the top of some Google search result pages, providing a brief answer that, brands hope, leads the user to click for more detail.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 15, 2018

What are you trying to measure? What does success look like? Too often the answers to those questions have no relation to each other. One of my favorite books about data and measurement is The Haystack Syndrome by Eli Goldratt. It’s almost 30 years old, but it’s more relevant than ever. He proposes a method to architect a system to appreciate the difference between data and information (hint: one has context and thus impacts action) and get to true business measurement.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

Communication

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 13, 2018

“ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ” – Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride. For marketers, “that” word is engagement. And we use it a lot. We use it in strategy meetings, tweets, videos, and blog posts. We’ve selected “creating more engaging content” as one of our top priorities in Content Marketing Institute annual surveys.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 27, 2018

While the Content Marketing Institute doesn’t have that Kardashian/soda brand relationship or actor/automobile manufacturer combo, we use influencers to create an e-book to market Content Marketing World. While you may not be promoting a live event, you likely can learn more about how to create an influencer-based piece of content from the lessons we’ve learned producing this e-book over the years, including the 2018 Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2018

Editor’s note: Beverly Jackson is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. When was the last time you went to a casino? When was the last time you went to Las Vegas just for the gambling? Though plenty of people do, a much larger set of people don’t put gambling or Las Vegas at the top of their what-to-do-for-fun lists.

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Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!

Writing

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 19, 2018

You’ve done the content inventory. But then what? Follow these actionable tips on what to look for within the data, how to find hidden content gems, and how to use it to guide your content marketing strategy. I’ll cover practical steps to put the audit findings into action, without overworking your team. Let’s explore three areas: 1) what to look for, 2) what to track, and 3) what to do with the information you discover, including how to map your content.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 24, 2018

Editor’s note: Jason Miller is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. . Less than five years ago, social media giant LinkedIn wasn’t the top result for searches related to LinkedIn for marketing. Sites that covered social media best practices, such as Social Media Examiner, outranked it.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 22, 2018

What does it mean to create loyal customers in a world where your competitors can be everywhere at once, shopping habits are increasingly search driven, and a single social misstep can quickly erode the favorable reputation it took your brand years to build? It has become all too common for brands to promote brand loyalty simply by lavishing reward points on anybody willing to identify as a customer or load an app on their phone.

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Brand Construction Social Media Retail 75

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. “Nobody just buys the art … They want the stories behind the art.”. This callout from the second issue of JLL’s Ambitions magazine comes from an interview with Alex Voss, who the magazine calls “the Anthony Bourdain of brand storytelling.

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Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

Audience

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 9, 2018

In its widely talked about State of Marketing Report, Salesforce reports that just over half (51%) of marketers are using AI in one form or another, while another quarter plan to test it over the next two years. A smaller study of over 500 search, content, and digital marketers by BrightEdge found that just 4% have implemented AI (that’s not a typo).

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 8, 2018

Did you follow the #PlaneBae saga as it jumped from social media channels to national news item? If so, you saw the turn it took from lighthearted love story to a much darker reminder of the unexpected ways our digital footprints affect our (and others’) lives. Unwanted social media exposure is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to digital privacy concerns.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 16, 2018

Content technology. Sometimes it feels like we can’t live with it. But we know we can’t work without it. Consider this finding from CMI’s 2018 Content Management & Strategy Survey: 51% of the content professionals say their company lacks the right technology to manage content across their organization. And another 35% say they’re not using the technology they do have to its potential.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 17, 2018

Editor’s note: Bertrand Cerisier is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. When you imagine the future of work, what comes to mind? Does your futuristic workspace include printers? Does it even use paper? If not, you’ve got a good idea of the messaging challenges the global marketing team at Xerox faced.

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Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o

Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 3, 2018

Editor’s note: Venetta Linas Paris is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. We talk a lot in content marketing about how stories can engage, educate, and win over audiences. Yet many of us struggle to measure the impact of the stories we tell.

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Jeff Goins

AUGUST 30, 2018

Writing 100

Writing 100

Jeff Goins

AUGUST 26, 2018

IT 100

IT Writing 100

Jeff Goins

AUGUST 13, 2018

IT 100

IT Writing 100

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

Engagement

Jeff Goins

AUGUST 7, 2018

Writing 100

Writing 100

Jeff Goins

AUGUST 2, 2018

Writing 100

Writing 100

ProBlogger

AUGUST 22, 2018

The post How Long Should Your Blog Post Be? appeared first on ProBlogger. Today’s post is by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke. When I started blogging in 2008, there was a (roughly) agreed-on standard for blog posts: you should post around 500 words every weekday. Now that I look back on that, it seems pretty silly. Some topics can be adequately covered in 300 words, while others might need 5,000.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2018

The post 256: How One Blogger Landed a Book Deal That Launched Her Career appeared first on ProBlogger. How a Book Deal Launched the Career of a Blogger. We’re kicking off our Blogging Breakthroughs series, where a variety of bloggers share their stories of breakthroughs they’ve experienced over the years with their blogs. We received submissions from numerous bloggers.

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Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

Marketing