How To Fix Marketing’s Failed Data-Driven Dream
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5aRpHieuQ[/embed] Marketers have been sold a dream: Collect more data, and you’ll get better insights…
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How One Brand Solved the Marketing Attribution Puzzle [Video]
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40 Must-Read Marketing Books (Written by Women)
Want a good book to advance your content skills, inspire creativity, or grow your business…
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5 Scripts for Content Marketing Requests
How many times have you rolled your eyes or screamed (silently) about an unnecessary or…
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How To Market Yourself for the Marketing Role You Want
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7McHyPoqJ0[/embed] It’s been a rough few months for marketers. For all the announcements on LinkedIn…
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Lights, Camera, Conversion: Must-Know Video Strategies and Tips for 2025
If your brand treats video like an extra in the background of your marketing strategy,…
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How 6 Leading Brands Use Content To Win Audiences [E-Book]
If you work in content marketing, you’ve experienced the “battle of the brains.” Your creative…
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Why (and How To) Write a Strategy for Your Cause-Related Marketing
These days, brands championing a social cause or initiative must treat it as a serious…
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How To Position Marketing as a Business Driver
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17_eNiGvis[/embed] I see one mistake derailing marketing strategy again and again: Setting up marketing teams…
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How Human Behavior Impacts Your Marketing Strategy
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How To Set Content Marketing Goals That Matter to the Business
Marketing goals often use soft, fuzzy language like “brand awareness,” “credibility,” and “education.” They’re nice…
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Stuck in a Creative Rut? 5 AI Prompts To Help Your Content
Sound familiar? You stop writing after the intro to ponder what details to include. You…
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Thought Leadership in the AI Age Belongs to Those Who Connect, Not Control
I meet regularly with a group of seasoned professionals to explore big ideas, emerging trends,…
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Freelance or Full-Scale Agency? How To Choose the Right Path for You [Video]
Don’t launch a new agency or any brand before listening to advice from someone who’s…
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Boot Barn Kicks High and Low in Its Event Content Marketing Strategy
Fashion shows function well as a marketing tool. Models walk down runways showcasing what the…
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GSK Targets Patient-Adjacent Audience With Award-Winning Initiative
When someone lives with a health condition such as asthma, psoriasis, or bacterial infections, they’re…
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Fast, Broken, and Stuck? Your Content Team Needs Processes To Break
We’re living in an era obsessed with overachievement. Tech billionaires tout themselves as the sole…
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What’s the Future of Marketing Analytics in the AI Age? [Video]
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Give Content Its Own Marketing Strategy To Grow Its Success
Is it time to expand the definition of content marketing? In 2020, I posed that…
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Check Your SEO Strategy Vitals With These 5 Questions
Did you hear the canary chirping in the marketing coal mine? It got a little…
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7 (New) Laws for Content Marketing Success
Remember 2019? We were all riding the Old Town Road with Lil Nas X while…
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SEO Moves To Make (and Ditch) in 2025 [Video]
SEO isn’t dead. It just needs a fresher approach. In this video presentation, experts from…
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Why the Future Depends on Responsible Marketing
“With great power comes great responsibility.” That’s what Uncle Ben told Peter Parker (aka Spiderman)…
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What the OpenAI Ad Says About Created and Constructed Content in the AI Era
What was your favorite ad from the Super Bowl LIX? I couldn’t pick just one.…
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Should You Toss Your Editorial Calendar in Favor of This Marketing Strategy?
Content Marketing Institute Team The Content Marketing Institute team byline indicates this article reflects the collective…
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Diversity and Inclusivity in Content Marketing
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are being cancelled by public institutions and private companies.…
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Try a Purple Content Strategy To Differentiate in the AI Age
Just when it seemed like the generative AI landscape was beginning to settle, DeepSeek stepped…
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How To Sell Your Biggest, Bravest Ideas — Lessons From a ‘Marketing Baddie’ [Video]
Take the lead on innovation and creation with your brand’s content and marketing. Learn how…
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5+ Best Practices for Award-Winning Brand Newsletters
Trendy content marketing formats and platforms can come and go. Today’s TikTok campaign is tomorrow’s…
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8 Meaningful Brand Responses to Natural Disasters
Many brands line up with statements of “thoughts and prayers” after natural and human-made devastation,…
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Visionary Content May Not Be Popular (Yet), But It’s Your Secret Edge
One of the best motivational speeches I’ve heard came not from a business event or…
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How To Tell Stories That the C-Suite Wants To Hear [Video]
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Marketing Toolkit To Improve Your Content Operations
You have too many marketing tasks and responsibilities to do them the hard way. Your…
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Expert Tips To Set Your Strategy
Confession time. Just before sitting down to write this article, I was working on a…
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Why AI Makes Content Planning Out Loud More Important Than Ever
Visibility. Once upon a time, that word was the most common answer I heard when…
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How To Use GA4 and AI To Find the Gold In Your Data
Open a marketer’s treasure chest and you’ll see an abundance of data. How do you…
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Forget Fear, Joyful Marketing Works: Examples From Top Brands
As the founder and CEO of The Joy Brigade, Shabnam Mogharabi counsels people to rebel…
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Why Culture Is Key to Brand Marketing’s Influence
I recently interviewed Marcus Collins, author of For the Culture: The Power Behind What We…
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How To Write a 1-Page Content Marketing Strategy in a Few Hours
To get everybody on the same page with your brand’s content marketing, you need an…
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What Marketers Need To Know
People prefer the easiest route. When they search for information, that now means they turn…
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Should You Prioritize Speed or Agility? (No, They Aren’t the Same)
Have you seen that video of Mark Zuckerberg talking about the difference between Meta’s and…
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What’s Lost When AI-Generated Characters Lie and Misrepresent?
Meta just learned the hard way that no one likes fake friends. Users quickly sniffed…
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How To Promote Your Research for Maximum Press Coverage
Brands generate original research to grow their recognition as thought leaders in their industries. But…
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What Is a Content Marketer, Anyway?
Content marketers have long had an identity crisis. In recent years, the crisis has grown…
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What’s Your Word for 2025?
Happy New Year! Here we are again. It’s the beginning of a new year —…
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The Grinch That Stole Creativity: 2024 in Seussian Review
I hope you are getting ready for a wonderful season of giving, and taking a…
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Why Your Great Content Isn’t Driving Great Results — And How To Fix It
When your content fires on all cylinders, the signs are obvious. Your audience searches for…
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What Does Instagram’s Hashtag Move Mean for Marketers?
Hashtag stuffing isn’t as tasty a dish as it once was. This month, Instagram ended…
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Should TikTok Ruling Take a Bite Out of Your Marketing?
Earlier this year, everybody was all aflutter about the U.S. ban on TikTok. But when…
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How 5 Travel Brands Inspire Dreams With Powerful Storytelling
Exciting destinations. Luxurious accommodations. Friction-free coordination. Memory-making experiences. For consumers, these are the things travel…
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How To Use Friction To Build Better B2B Customers
“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” That fantastic quote,…
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Should Jaguar’s Bold Rebrand Generate a New Roar for Marketers?
This past couple of weeks, it wasn’t politics or U.S. Thanksgiving gatherings that dominated social…
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How To Make the Case for a Raise in Your Content and Marketing Role
You’re underpaid for the marketing work you perform. That’s the sentiment of marketers surveyed for…
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What Experience Do You ‘Get To’ Create for Someone Today?
It hasn’t been an easy year, and I won’t be sad to say goodbye to…
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What Marketers Should Know About Data Cleaning, Modeling, and Governance
You can access a wealth of marketing-related data — from web analytics and customer journey…
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Holiday Marketing Inspiration: 6 Delicious Content Examples
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, when you try to leave work behind, put…
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Why ‘Know Your Why’ Is Wrong for Content — and How To Fix It
At a conference last week, the CEO of a professional services firm asked me about…
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Will the X Avalanche Lead to a New Social Media Landscape for Marketers?
On Nov. 6, the day after the U.S. elections, more than 115,000 users deactivated their…
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Manufacturing Marketing Outlook for 2025
New research suggests that manufacturing marketers — like a lot of other B2B marketers —…
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Are We Walking Backward Into the Future of Content and Marketing?
Predicting the death of anything is the easiest way to land in hot water. The…
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How To Battle Organic Search Analytics in the AI Era
What happens when search-related data shows your organization’s content isn’t delivering? You dig deeper into…
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At Least One of These Predictions for Marketers Is True
Predictions for 2025 started fast and furious before the calendar flipped to November. But, as…
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How Caspian Studios Brought Fiction to B2B Content
Caspian Studios likes to shake things up. Take its Murder in HR podcast. Many agencies…
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27 Definitions for Effective Content Marketing Measurement
You’ll never know what content works — and why — unless you regularly track and…
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How To Optimize Content Organization for 2025
How do you approach content optimization? It’s easy to get stuck working on one piece…
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Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where It Counts?
For the last 25 years, people have used internet search in a straightforward way. Input…
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The B2B Game Plan for Success
You likely associate influencer marketing with well-known B2C tactics. Engaging social media personalities to co-create…
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Why You Need People To Manage the Meaning of AI Content
What’s your data strategy? Your first thought might be about first-party data collection, performance metrics,…
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How To Find the Truth in Data and Marketing Analytics
What are your brand’s “left ventricles” waiting for discovery? Seth Stephens-Davidowitz posed a variation of…
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Semrush’s Acquisition Reinforces the Value of Owned Media
It looks like Semrush took notes on CMI’s advice that the best way to launch…
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5 Bright Ideas To Help Your Content and Marketing Shine in 2025
A spark can ignite a creative fire. A spark can illuminate a moment. Last week,…
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How Salesforce Blazed Award-Winning Content Trail for Sales Pros
Did Salesforce really need another content project? The company’s mega-successful Trailblazer program, launched way back…
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3 Disruptions That Will Shape Your Content and Marketing Strategy in 2025
In introducing our latest content marketing research, CMI’s Stephanie Stahl wrote: “While many [companies] find…
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Don’t Settle for This in Your 2025 Marketing
This week, thousands of content marketers from all over the world invaded San Diego to…
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Content Score: How To Assess Performance
Universally acknowledged truth: Good content serves as one of the most effective ways to attract…
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How To Plan Content To Support Digital Sales
The pandemic didn’t just change the B2B buying game; it flipped the whole table. That’s…
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Embrace the Valuable Friction Between Creativity and Tech
As Content Marketing World 2024 kicks off today, I’m sharing my opening remarks on our…
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Data Standards for Marketing Are a Must, But Few Brands Have Them [Research]
Does your marketing measurement and data have standards? What does that even mean? Well, it…
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6 Ideas for Epic Audio and Video Storytelling [Examples]
“Let me tell you a story …” Those six simple words command attention. They create…
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How Travel Oregon’s Content Strategy Drove $50+ Million in Economic Impact
When Mo Sherifdeen joined Travel Oregon 19 years ago, he was the first person hired…
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Why You Have To Care Enough To Send the Very Best in B2B Marketing
Pretend it’s late 2024. Oh, wait, it is. How time flies. As you plan your…
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How To Catch Content Lightning in a Bottle
Fragmentation. It’s the best word to describe today’s landscape of entertainment and information consumption. Two…
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10+ Overlooked Tools To Improve Your MarTech Stack
Building the ideal tech stack for content marketing remains a pie-in-the-sky dream for most marketers.…
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B2B Content Marketing Trends 2025 [Research]
Tell me something, marketers. Are you satisfied with the state of B2B content marketing? According…
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B2B Content Marketing Trends 2025 [Research]
Tell me something, marketers. Are you satisfied with the state of B2B content marketing? According…
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Set Your 2025 Content Strategy Before Buying New Tech — Here’s Why
Like most people, I hate spending money on some things but love spending on others.…
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How IBM Uses Data To Power Account-Based Marketing Strategy
My neighbor was a math professor at a college in San Francisco. He once told…
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How To Improve Data Storytelling and Gain More Support
“By 2025, data stories will be the most widespread way of consuming analytics.” That prediction…
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Map Your Strategic Path to Content Success [Sponsored]
For any successful journey, you need to know where you are, where you want to…
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Isn’t It Obvious? How To Make Content More Useful for Sales
“Isn’t it obvious?” How many times have you asked this question? How many times have…
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How To Transform a Corporate Blog Into an Award-Winning Website
This story may sound familiar. A small team writes and publishes content for a corporate…
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How To Find Your Way Through the Marketing Analytics Maze
In the 20th century, marketers relied on coupons, customers’ anecdotal feedback, and mainstream media subscriber…
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Is Google NotebookLM the New CliffsNotes?
Do you remember CliffsNotes? The iconic yellow-and-black books summarized all manner of literary works. They…
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Where LinkedIn’s AI Move Went Wrong
An update to terms of service isn’t usually a headline-making event, even at the biggest…
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5 Things Content Marketers Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Doing
Reasons abound when you don’t want to do something: “I haven’t the time.” “The team…
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The Marketing Career Path Is Crumbling. What Comes Next?
Is a career path in marketing even a thing anymore? As we approach Content Marketing…
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Award-Winning Content for TMRW
Almost three years ago, Micky Onvural made a surprising move. She left her role as…
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Pack a Bigger Punch Writing Character-Limited Descriptions and Posts
Consumers really like short-form content. Billions watch TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels every…
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You Can Build a Better Racetrack Without Chasing SEO
Let’s talk about SEO. More than a month after a source gave thousands of pages…
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Can a 1985 Marketing Playbook Fix Measurement Problems in 2024?
Marketers should stop using attribution models and return to a 1985–like measurement model if they…
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How Better Source Interviews Lead To More Engaging Content
Ask a question; get an answer. Ask the next question; get the next answer. Repeat…
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How To Take the All-Important Second Step in Your Content Strategy
I had two interesting discussions with marketing leaders recently. Both revolved around the same question:…
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What Should Agencies Do in a Flat-Growth Year?
How are things for marketing agencies? Not as great as last year, according to Ad…
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How To Build a Winning Content Plan for Social Media [Template]
Social media offers a volatile space for marketing. The rules of engagement vary across platforms,…
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Groundbreaking Autism Travel Series Rockets Myrtle Beach Tourism
Stuart Butler is a trained rocket scientist turned content marketing rock star. Though the career…
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Why Brand-Building Matters, Even When You Can’t Measure It
A long time ago (so long ago that Nickelback still had hits), my marketing leader…
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Did Cannes Lions Awards Just Say Content Beats Advertising?
We didn’t get to the south of France this week, but we’ve been talking about…
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7 Authentic Ways Your Brand Can Take a Stand on Social Issues
Brands’ words and actions — including yours — matter. As politics, health care, and other…
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How To Market Your Marketing To Marketers [New Research]
A mentor of mine used to drill the following into my head: “You are not…
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Is It OK for Platforms To Train Their AI With Your Content?
When is your content, our content? In the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jeff…
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How To Use Technology To Unlock Content and Marketing Potential
Two brains are better than one. Embracing the machine brain of technology as a partner…
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What Every B2B Brand Should Know About Influencer Marketing (Pricing Included)
Time for a quiz. Do people trust: Non-governmental organizations (NGO)? Government? Media? If you answered…
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A Better Way To Build a Content Strategy
I’ve heard about more organizations kick-starting their content marketing strategy lately. That’s a welcome change…
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Why Brands May Be Saying Less But Not Doing Less for Pride Month
Does Pride Month seem quieter this year? No big controversies stand out like last year,…
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Quizzes, Games, and Polls [Examples]
A perplexing irony exists in content marketing. Though most content is static, interactive content usually…
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How To Measure the Value of Your Audience (in Real Money)
Audience building is one of the hottest topics in marketing today. That’s why you hear…
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Leaked Documents Reveal Search Algorithm Secrets
Depending on your age, you’ve heard of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Younger people may…
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How To Create Headlines: A 7-Point Checklist
Headlines are the workhorses of content. When they work well, they pull readers into your…
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Harness AI To Harmonize Your Brand Voice: A Step-by-Step Guide
A cacophony of brand voices hums in discord across your content spectrum. Getting them to…
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Why Holding Attention Isn’t a Worthwhile Content Strategy Anymore
You’d think that a new company with the resources of OpenAI would have a straightforward…
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Coca-Cola Focuses Lens on Innovative, Lower-Budget B2B Content Play
When is your audience NOT your end customer? If you’re a B2B marketer, you know…
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How To Use Content Curation To Deliver Fresh Ideas Without Added Resources
More content marketers should act like museum curators. Museum curators pick an exhibit theme, carefully…
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Build a Workflow for Your Content Operation in 5 Steps
You’ve heard the expression, “Work smarter, not harder.” Content marketing teams would do well to…
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Why Even Crushing Content Failures Aren’t Mistakes
Did you follow the Apple iPad Pro content debacle? Here’s a quick recap. A recent…
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What You Need To Know About Recent ChatGPT and Gemini Features
OpenAI and Google made waves in the world of artificial intelligence this week. In a…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Pitching Journalists To Get More From Your Owned Media
Wouldn’t it be great if the content your brand invests so much time and resources…
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3 Contextual Link-Building Strategies That Actually Work
Quality content can get your web pages ranking higher in Google search results. But…
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Time To Evolve Your Social Media Strategy for 2024
What the heck should you do with social media in marketing these days? Content and…
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Tech Takes Over Marketing (But Not How You Think)
An old saying goes that marketers only worry about two things — the logo and…
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Maximize Content Efficiency With These 7 Agile Practices
Content marketing teams rarely talk about efficiency. You frequently discuss quality, conversions, and brand alignment.…
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How To Protect Your People and Brand
Your lack of social media guidelines could discourage employees from becoming brand advocates and even…
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Why Your Content Won’t Surprise or Delight Unless You Expect More
We should rename generative AI. I suggest calling it “expressional AI.” The dictionary defines “generative”…
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Oops, Google Did It Again — But You Still Need First-Party Data
In the immortal words of Britney Spears, “Oops, they did it again.” No, we’re not…
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How To Write Faster With or Without an AI Assist
If only you could write faster … The deadline pressure would lessen. The work volume…
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How To Develop a Great Creative Brief and Get On-Target Content
Every editor knows what it feels like to sit exasperated in front of the computer,…
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Avoid Traditional Marketing Metrics To Prove Content’s Real Value
There’s something in the air. In the past week, I’ve been asked more questions about…
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Don’t Follow Tesla’s Marketing Mistake
Tell us you don’t know anything about marketing without telling us you don’t know anything…
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A Step-by-Step Guide To Building an Impactful Content Dashboard
With so many nuances to content, from distribution to format to the buyer’s journey, you…
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Your Ultimate Guide To Master the Content Creation Process
Content creation acts as the heart of effective content marketing. And, as a skilled creative…
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Overcome Change Fatigue and Boost Your Content Strategy
Change fatigue. It’s a thing. My good friend and amazing consultant Jenny Magic wrote a…
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Should Your Brand Shout Its AI and Marketing Plan to the World?
To use AI or not to use AI, that is the question. Let’s hope things…
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How To Write A Lede
I have a tough time putting aside my editor’s brain. Editors and good writers know…
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How To Use Testing To Create a Competitive Advantage
Are you motivating your audience to take action? How do you know which creative assets…
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Think Like a Golfer To Create a Winning Content Strategy
Do you play golf? I don’t, but I’m intrigued by one thing: The goal of…
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Will Google Buy HubSpot? | Content Marketing Institute
Google + HubSpot. Is it a thing? This week, a flurry of news came down…
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How To Set Up a Content Publishing Process
Creating content gets a lot of attention. But it can’t get an audience without a…
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How To Adapt Your SEO and Content Strategies for SGE and AI Experiences
A massive change is coming to search. As Google experiments with AI in its standard…
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How To Get Unstuck With Generative AI in Your Content and Marketing
Feeling stuck with generative AI? Here’s a way to get unstuck. I’d like to ask…
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The Reality of Generative AI in Marketing May Not Be What You Think
What’s really going on with generative AI and marketing? We wanted to know, so we…
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57+ Words Every Content Marketer Should Know [Glossary]
As a kid, you probably learned the phrase, knowledge is power. As a marketer, you…
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Want More Referral Traffic? Don’t Overlook These Sites
Just as LeBron James has dominated NBA courts and conversation, Google has dominated search and…
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How To Direct An Employee Creator Network
One of the more exciting trends in marketing is the rise in interest in engaging…
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How To Prepare for the Data Apocalypse
Everybody knows the apocalypse of ad tech data approaches. Yet, most aren’t rushing to do…
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How To Combine PR and Content Marketing Superpowers To Achieve Business Goals
A transformative shift is happening, and it’s not AI. The aisle between public relations and…
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Enhance Your Content’s Power With a Performance-Centric AI Plan
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a topic of huge debate among content creators. It’s been hailed…
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How To Produce a Podcast
“I have too much time and too much money, so let’s make a podcast,” said…
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7 Answers to TikTok Ban Questions
The alarmist headlines grow louder these days — TikTok Ban: It’s Here! Americans Sound Off…
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How To Find and Include More Underrepresented Voices in Your Content
When women make up so much of your target audience, why does your content marketing…
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Content Editing: How To Handle Major Rewrites
Have you ever had to edit bad content? You know the kind. It doesn’t contain…
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Manage Your Content Budgets With ‘Bottle’ Episodes
When marketing budgets get tighter, an easy trap to fall into is failing to create…
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The Problem With AI Headlines
Today is the Ides of March. It is not a day to celebrate; it is…
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Helpful Advice To Find a New Job in Marketing and Content
Are you in job hunt mode? Maybe you recently lost a job or expect cuts…
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Enterprise Content Marketing Research | Content Marketing Institute
For enterprise content marketers, 2024 is all about efficiency and results. That’s what 333…
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Does AI Do ‘More’ Or ‘Less With More’ in Your Content Strategy?
Let’s dispel a myth going around right now. You are NOT behind if you…
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Is Your Thought Leadership Stuck in ‘Mutually Assured Irrelevance’?
How is your thought leadership program going? Is it more thought than leadership? Or are…
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6 SEO Content Mistakes, Myths, and Misunderstandings
It’s hard out here for content marketers to attract the right traffic organically. With search…
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50+ Blogs, Newsletters, Podcasts, and Video Channels
You’re busy enough doing the work. You don’t have the time to search for content…
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Evergreen vs. Classic Content: Why Marketers Should Know the Difference
Last week, I had a lively discussion with a colleague about “evergreen” content. I argued…
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Lessons From Air Canada’s Chatbot Fail
Air Canada tried to throw its chatbot under the AI bus. It didn’t work. A…
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4-Part Guide To Crafting a Winning Content Plan
You receive or finalize your organization’s latest content marketing strategy. That means you’re ready to…
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How To Achieve Business Podcasting Success
Business podcasting differs from entertainment podcasting in almost every dimension. (The hint is in the…
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Learn the ABCs of DXPs [Sponsored]
Digital experience platforms (DXPs) are a relatively new arrival in the alphabet soup of martech…
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Attention vs.Trust: Which Should Content Marketers Prioritize?
If you had to pick the impact your content on a potential customer, would you…
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Marketing Team Reorgs: Why So Many and How To Survive
How long has it been since your marketing team got restructured? Wearing our magic mind-reading…
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Look Inside Your Brand’s Community for People To Help Lead It
Intuit knows people ask a lot of questions about taxes. For over 10 years, its…
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Technology Content Marketing Research 2024
In a 20-minute demo, the sales engineer deftly clicked through the interface, configured a new…
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How to Shift Your Storytelling To Co-Create
My wife and I have a running bit of funny banter. Well, we think it’s…
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9 Actions You Can Take To Get Better Content Results Without Spending More
In my career, I’ve seen it all. I’ve been through economic downturns. I’ve been through…
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Don’t Wait To See How Cookies Crumble; Cook Up a New Data Strategy Now
Imagine a world where you make candy and cakes. Almost all your competitors make similar…
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5+ Ways AI Can Benefit Your Content and Marketing
Have you welcomed AI onto your content marketing team? AI-powered tools and techniques can add…
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‘Playing Around’ With Generative AI Won’t Lead To Innovation
AI doesn’t solve anything but is an opportunity to solve many things. A weird tension…
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Stuck in B2Boring? Take These Lessons From the Super Ads Bowl
Who will win the Super Bowl? The Kansas City Chiefs? The San Francisco 49ers? Will…
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Why and How To Add Mentoring to Your Content Career Plan
Mentorships took the No. 1 spot in LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report. The subject beat…
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Crickets? Rethink Your Livestream Strategy
You hit the live button, and the viewer count doesn’t budge. You assume it’s a…
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How To Help Your Internal Teams Fall in Love With Innovative Ideas
Ironically, a difficult thing for creative marketing and content teams to do is the one…
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Are CMI Roles Going 6 Feet Under?
Are you skilled for the hottest jobs in the market? LinkedIn recently released the 25…
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The Advanced LinkedIn Ads Guide
B2B marketers love LinkedIn for a reason. Your desired audiences are right there. So, LinkedIn…
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Build a Robust Content Infrastructure With the Right CMS [Sponsored]
Here’s a burning question many marketers look to answer when figuring out how to optimize…
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6 Easy Things You Can Do To Improve the Content Experience
What if you created content so great your audience doesn’t even realize it’s an…
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Don’t Hide — Mine Your Brand’s Flaws for Storytelling Gold
Your brand is flawed. It doesn’t matter who you are or what your company does.…
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What Marketers Should Do as Google Crumbles Third-Party Cookies
Google followed through on its resolution to give up cookies. Well, maybe “give up” is…
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Hackensack Meridian Health’s Award-Winning Content Strategy
Seven years ago, Hackensack Meridian Health operated on content autopilot. It’s a story familiar to…
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Owned Media Demands This New Content Role for Long-Term Success
How many owned media properties does your company have? Yes, I’m asking you to count…
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Solo Stove Burns Marketing Team Over Snoop Campaign
Last week, Solo Brands, the parent company of direct-to-consumer-brands Solo Stove and others, appointed Christopher…
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6 Strategies To Convert the Content Clueless
This article is co-authored by Digital River Media CEO Annie Murmann and COO Jeneanne Ballos. You diligently developed your customer…
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How To Bring Personality to Your Content and Personas
. Developing content requires you to think about the audience. You likely create customer personas…
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