Content Marketing Institute

MAY 4, 2018

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Two psychiatrists walk by each other in the hallway. Each says, “Good morning.” After they pass, each one thinks, “I wonder what he really meant by that.”. Have a look at the picture. What do you see? If you are in marketing, you probably see a visual of something you work to optimize every day. It’s the representation of marketing process and efficiency.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 30, 2018

Why Shiny Object Syndrome Can Be Good for Your Blog and Business. Do you suffer from Shiny Object Syndrome? Are you easily distracted by something new – a tool, medium, tactic, or income stream? Whatever it is, it captivates and distracts you in the moment. And it can easily take over your day, week, or even month. Shiny Object Syndrome has the power to take you away from your core business, which can be destructive.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 1, 2018

Good content is one thing, but great online content is another. How do you define great content? Yes, it should be well-written, addictively readable, and hit home for its intended audience. But it should also convert like crazy. After all, that’s the point of content creation for us, the marketers. The good news is that content that is high-performing for us is useful for them, our readers.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 30, 2018

Robert Rose, CMI chief strategy advisor, loves to reset his audience’s brains with a truth bomb: The purpose of a business is to create a customer. This 60-year-old quote from management great Peter Drucker reminds marketers that their work – creating demand, generating traffic, prompting social shares, or even gathering leads — is in service of this one clear goal.

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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.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 2, 2018

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about Reddit for this very site. Before it published, I was sure it was going to be my Best Post Ever. I cleared my morning to handle the massive influx of comments. Crickets. Netting just over 400 shares, it was – by CMI’s standards – a dud. I’ve since learned that confessing my undying love of Reddit to non-redditors creeps people out.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 3, 2018

“Ever want to throw your computer across the room?”. When Cathy McKnight asks hundreds of tech-savvy marketers this question at the Intelligent Content Conference, many heads nod. And there’s a good reason. “We’re expected to be content superstars ,” Cathy explains. “We’re caught between automation and the human touch. How do we use AI? Where do we draw the line in automation?

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2018

Today’s post is a case study with Undercover Architect , Amelia Lee. Amelia attended the ProBlogger Evolve and Mastermind events in 2017, and adapted speaker Jadah Sellner’s 7-Day Challenge model to boost her own lead generation and course enrollments. Here’s how she did it. When I attended ProBlogger Evolve in 2017, I was specifically looking for guidance on how to market and run a new online program I’d been piloting.

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