Category: Digital Marketing
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What are the limitations of kinescope recordings?
limitations of kinescope recordings Kinescope recordings, once the primary method for preserving live television broadcasts, have significant limitations that highlight how far video technology has [more…]
Z jakimi klientami współpracuje FunkyMEDIA?
współpracuje FunkyMEDIA FunkyMEDIA to agencja interaktywna, która współpracuje z szerokim gronem klientów, zarówno z sektora MŚP, jak i dużych przedsiębiorstw. Dzięki elastycznemu podejściu oraz bogatemu [more…]
Does American Express Business Class Get a Good Content Marketing Grade?
Almost 20 years ago, American Express launched OPEN Forum, a content hub for small business owners that quickly earned praise as a go-to content marketing [more…]
How To Fix Marketing’s Failed Data-Driven Dream
Marketers have been sold a dream: Collect more data, and you’ll get better insights to make smarter decisions. We all chased big data, embraced digital [more…]
How can a Google Map rank checker help improve my Google Maps ranking?
Google Map rank checker A Google Map rank checker is a valuable tool for businesses aiming to improve their visibility on Google Maps and attract [more…]
How One Brand Solved the Marketing Attribution Puzzle [Video]
Content Marketing Institute Team The Content Marketing Institute team byline indicates this article reflects the collective work of the CMI team. CMI is a global marketing [more…]
Smmact – The Best Platform to Boost Your Social Media Presence Instantly
Introduction In today’s digital world, growing a strong social media presence is key to success. Whether you need a موقع زيادة متابعين تيك توك or [more…]
40 Must-Read Marketing Books (Written by Women)
Want a good book to advance your content skills, inspire creativity, or grow your business acumen? Look no further. One of these 40 books recommended [more…]
5 Scripts for Content Marketing Requests
How many times have you rolled your eyes or screamed (silently) about an unnecessary or misguided request crossing your content marketing desk? You know what [more…]
How To Market Yourself for the Marketing Role You Want
It’s been a rough few months for marketers. For all the announcements on LinkedIn celebrating the landing of a new job, I see as many [more…]
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, it’s time to make it the star. Discover why, learn [more…]
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 brain gets excited to develop your next innovative, engaging, and [more…]
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 commitment. Of course, it was never a good idea to [more…]
How To Position Marketing as a Business Driver
I see one mistake derailing marketing strategy again and again: Setting up marketing teams as internal agencies that serve cross-functional “customers” in other departments. That’s [more…]
How Human Behavior Impacts Your Marketing Strategy
Content Marketing Institute Team The Content Marketing Institute team byline indicates this article reflects the collective work of the CMI team. CMI is a global marketing [more…]
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 things for the business, but they aren’t easy to measure, [more…]
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 need facts to support the solutions recommended in the content, [more…]
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, and how we might anticipate what’s coming next in the [more…]
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 done it and even written a book about building brands [more…]
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 brand is selling. It’s a common-sense tactic. Yet, this marketing [more…]
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 not the only ones who are affected. Their family members [more…]
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 architects of progress, preaching the virtues of moving fast and [more…]
What’s the Future of Marketing Analytics in the AI Age? [Video]
Content Marketing Institute Team The Content Marketing Institute team byline indicates this article reflects the collective work of the CMI team. CMI is a global marketing [more…]
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 question. My argument was simple: Content marketing isn’t just about [more…]
Check Your SEO Strategy Vitals With These 5 Questions
Did you hear the canary chirping in the marketing coal mine? It got a little louder in the past month after Ahrefs released a report [more…]
7 (New) Laws for Content Marketing Success
Remember 2019? We were all riding the Old Town Road with Lil Nas X while watching the slow-burn soap opera that was Brexit unfold across [more…]
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 TopRank Marketing reveal why traditional SEO still has a role [more…]
Why the Future Depends on Responsible Marketing
“With great power comes great responsibility.” That’s what Uncle Ben told Peter Parker (aka Spiderman) in 1962. Let’s twist the phrase for our industry: “Great [more…]
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. As is true every year, I love how creative they [more…]
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 work of the CMI team. CMI is a global marketing [more…]
Diversity and Inclusivity in Content Marketing
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are being cancelled by public institutions and private companies. But the end of formal DEI initiatives shouldn’t signal that [more…]
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 in and said, “Hold my beer.” Wall Street seems convinced [more…]
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 to get the buy-in and budget for innovative ideas with [more…]
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 “Remember when …?” But one format has stood the test [more…]
8 Meaningful Brand Responses to Natural Disasters
Many brands line up with statements of “thoughts and prayers” after natural and human-made devastation, such as the recent California wildfires and hurricane flooding in [more…]
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 even a TED conference. It came from the Academy Awards [more…]
How To Tell Stories That the C-Suite Wants To Hear [Video]
Content Marketing Institute Team The Content Marketing Institute team byline indicates this article reflects the collective work of the CMI team. CMI is a global marketing [more…]
Marketing Toolkit To Improve Your Content Operations
You have too many marketing tasks and responsibilities to do them the hard way. Your work is too critical to business success to let best [more…]
Expert Tips To Set Your Strategy
Confession time. Just before sitting down to write this article, I was working on a social calendar project for a new client. I turned to [more…]
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 I asked marketing leaders what was wrong with their content [more…]
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 select the valuable gold among all the worthless pyrite? And [more…]
Forget Fear, Joyful Marketing Works: Examples From Top Brands
As the founder and CEO of The Joy Brigade, Shabnam Mogharabi counsels people to rebel with joy. She’s embraced the strategy herself, doing the research, [more…]
Why Culture Is Key to Brand Marketing’s Influence
I recently interviewed Marcus Collins, author of For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want To Be, [more…]
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 actual page. Your team — and everybody else involved in [more…]
What Marketers Need To Know
People prefer the easiest route. When they search for information, that now means they turn to generative AI tools, like Gemini and ChatGPT, or even [more…]
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 Apple’s development approaches? For some reason, LinkedIn keeps serving me [more…]
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 out the company’s AI-generated profiles with their awkward bios, wonky [more…]
How To Promote Your Research for Maximum Press Coverage
Brands generate original research to grow their recognition as thought leaders in their industries. But the buzz won’t materialize if the marketing team doesn’t promote [more…]
What Is a Content Marketer, Anyway?
Content marketers have long had an identity crisis. In recent years, the crisis has grown with the ubiquity of content creators in the creator economy. [more…]
What’s Your Word for 2025?
Happy New Year! Here we are again. It’s the beginning of a new year — that magical time when your journaling app sends you a [more…]
The Grinch That Stole Creativity: 2024 in Seussian Review
I hope you are getting ready for a wonderful season of giving, and taking a pause from all things marketing and business. For the last [more…]
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 your content by name, eagerly engages with it, and spends [more…]
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 its following hashtags feature. Users can no longer follow hashtags [more…]
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 the ban moved into the courts, everybody moved on to [more…]
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 dreams are made of. For content marketers, empowering aspiring travelers [more…]
How To Use Friction To Build Better B2B Customers
“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” That fantastic quote, usually attributed to author William Gibson, perfectly captures the state [more…]
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 media arguments. Instead, it was a car manufacturer. That’s right. [more…]
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 CMI’s 2025 Career Outlook: Content and Marketing Professionals (registration required). [more…]
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 2024. I’m looking at 2025 as a complete reset and [more…]
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 behavior to competitor analysis and product usage. However, if the [more…]
Holiday Marketing Inspiration: 6 Delicious Content Examples
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, when you try to leave work behind, put aside petty squabbles, and be present with the people you [more…]
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 some advice they’d received from a marketing consultant. The consultant [more…]
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 accounts on X. That’s the most in a single day [more…]
Manufacturing Marketing Outlook for 2025
New research suggests that manufacturing marketers — like a lot of other B2B marketers — only feel “average” about their content marketing. Sixty-seven percent of [more…]
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 second easiest is clinging to once-disruptive concepts after they, in [more…]
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 data. That’s what Brian Piper does as director of content [more…]
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 you’ve learned, marketing predictors are really bad at them. In [more…]
How Caspian Studios Brought Fiction to B2B Content
Caspian Studios likes to shake things up. Take its Murder in HR podcast. Many agencies listen to client needs and then develop a program to [more…]
27 Definitions for Effective Content Marketing Measurement
You’ll never know what content works — and why — unless you regularly track and evaluate its metrics against your business goals. However, just as [more…]
How To Optimize Content Organization for 2025
How do you approach content optimization? It’s easy to get stuck working on one piece at a time — trying to make one thing rank [more…]
Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where It Counts?
For the last 25 years, people have used internet search in a straightforward way. Input a keyword or phrase, and the search engine returns pages [more…]
The B2B Game Plan for Success
You likely associate influencer marketing with well-known B2C tactics. Engaging social media personalities to co-create content and promote products to their massive follower base is [more…]
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, or metadata for targeted content. But that’s not what I’m [more…]
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 that question in his keynote presentation at the Marketing Analytics [more…]
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 a content marketing platform is to acquire one. The search [more…]
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, I witnessed glimmers of light building into full-on radiance on [more…]
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 in 2007 as IdeaExchange, had evolved into a global community [more…]
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 themselves simply treading water, a group of top performers has [more…]
Don’t Settle for This in Your 2025 Marketing
This week, thousands of content marketers from all over the world invaded San Diego to celebrate the beloved practice, do lots of learning, and have [more…]
Content Score: How To Assess Performance
Universally acknowledged truth: Good content serves as one of the most effective ways to attract and retain your target audience’s attention. Research-confirmed truth: Half of [more…]
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 how Susan Gonzalez, director of marketing at the wholesale e-commerce [more…]
Embrace the Valuable Friction Between Creativity and Tech
As Content Marketing World 2024 kicks off today, I’m sharing my opening remarks on our beloved practice’s current state and future direction. Marketers are living [more…]
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 means you have a standard method for naming, storing, and [more…]
6 Ideas for Epic Audio and Video Storytelling [Examples]
“Let me tell you a story …” Those six simple words command attention. They create an expectation that an engagement-worthy experience is about to unfold. [more…]
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 to work on the website. His role as web manager [more…]
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 marketing strategy for 2025, think about the team you’ll be [more…]
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 years ago, user-generated content accounted for 39% of time spent [more…]
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. So, we asked the experts presenting at Content Marketing World [more…]
B2B Content Marketing Trends 2025 [Research]
Tell me something, marketers. Are you satisfied with the state of B2B content marketing? According to 980 of you, the answer is likely “no,” given [more…]
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. For example, I’ve been known to overpay for hotels, restaurants, [more…]
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 me: “The longest distance between two points travels through a [more…]
Is Google NotebookLM the New CliffsNotes?
Do you remember CliffsNotes? The iconic yellow-and-black books summarized all manner of literary works. They digested the plot and detailed the themes and symbolism. CliffsNotes [more…]
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 is just me.” “Our audience needs new content.” But are [more…]
Award-Winning Content for TMRW
Almost three years ago, Micky Onvural made a surprising move. She left her role as CEO of a B2C fashion brand, Bonobos, to become CMO [more…]
The Marketing Career Path Is Crumbling. What Comes Next?
Is a career path in marketing even a thing anymore? As we approach Content Marketing World 2024, I’m struck by how much has changed in [more…]
Where LinkedIn’s AI Move Went Wrong
An update to terms of service isn’t usually a headline-making event, even at the biggest brands. Yet, this past year tells a different story. In [more…]
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 numbers to understand their reach and impact. It was an [more…]
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 blog. The company doesn’t know what, if any, impact the [more…]
Map Your Strategic Path to Content Success [Sponsored]
For any successful journey, you need to know where you are, where you want to be, and what paths you can take to get there. [more…]
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 you heard it asked? In a work setting, this phrase [more…]
How To Improve Data Storytelling and Gain More Support
“By 2025, data stories will be the most widespread way of consuming analytics.” That prediction from Gartner a few years ago was geared toward CFOs, [more…]
Don’t Let AI Headlines Steer Your Marketing Career the Wrong Way
The world seems chockablock with research and data about how AI is now — and in the future — having an impact on the careers [more…]
20+ Tips and Ideas That Make Paid Social Media Content Pay Off
Should you still invest in paid social media promotion and advertising for your brand? When I posed the question to experts in marketing, the responses [more…]
Marketing Career Salaries
What’s the outlook (and current reality) for marketing jobs involving content these days? Our 2025 Career Outlook for Content and Marketing research found a [more…]
Why AI in Demand Generation Is No Knight In Shining Armor [Research]
It’s been a challenging year for most groups within the marketing realm. But marketers who spend their efforts at the earliest parts of the customer [more…]
Determining the Role of AI in Marketing
Artificial intelligence manifests dueling perspectives. Some marketers are uncertain how to feel about this new technology. Some see the opportunities for next-generation marketing. It’s a [more…]
19+ Free or Low-Budget Ideas To Distribute Your Brand’s Content
No marketer has ever said their content distribution budget is too big. That’s why brands of all sizes eagerly consider free and low-cost ideas. So, [more…]
3 Sound Ideas for Building Audio Into Your Content Strategy
Have you heard? Listener-friendly content formats like podcasts, audiobooks, and sound snippets enhance the emotional appeal of your stories and strengthen marketing performance. Think about [more…]
The Story or the Storyteller?
Does trust begin with the story or the storyteller? I’d argue they should be on equal footing at the start. For example, I can shout [more…]
Why Data-Driven Personalization Is So Hard (and How To Make It Easier)
Marketers know that data-driven personalization presents a huge opportunity and a meaningful way to deliver on customer expectations. Research backs up that common sense. In [more…]
Game Your Paid Media Strategy
Are you ready for “advergaming”? Or is it ad gamification? Gamified advertising? Whatever the word or phrase, interactive advertising is here. Big brands like Disney, [more…]
How To Create a Video Strategy for Now and the Future
Everybody loves videos. In the most recent CMI research, 84% of marketers say they use videos — that’s an 11% jump over the previous year. [more…]
8 Ways To Ensure That Your Content Is Accessible
Your content isn’t polished until you make it accessible to all. Google regularly introduces new accessibility features and updates to enhance the accessibility of digital [more…]
To Gate or Not to Gate? Is That Really the Question?
Does gating content make sense in 2024? In B2B content marketing, tension typically arises between marketing and sales teams over how much (if any) content [more…]
AI-Assisted Search Will Change the Pay-To-Play Games for Marketers
Are you ready for AI-assisted search paid advertising? Whew … a lot of buzzwords in that one question. That’s the concept pitched by Perplexity, a [more…]
Email Marketing: 19 Do’s and Don’ts
Email presents a marketing benefit unavailable on any social media channel: Your brand can show up directly in your audience’s inboxes whenever you want. But [more…]
Content Governance Is a Must for Successful Content Strategy
When you hire architects to design a house, they don’t just give the interior and exterior drawings to the construction crew and call the project [more…]
Solo Stove Brand Reignites Snoop Dogg With Blunt Marketing
We have an update on the Snoop Dogg viral ad from earlier this year. Fresh off his Olympic hosting duties, Snoop Dogg has reunited with [more…]
What It Takes To Build a Unified Content Experience
Most brands understand what it takes to deliver a satisfying content experience — or think they do. But what your brand believes will compel engagement may not [more…]
What To Do When the Optimal Strategy Isn’t Optimal
Strategy consultants and agencies often get a bad rap. Sometimes they deserve it. But sometimes they don’t. The cliché (and some stereotypes exist for a [more…]
How To Mine Customer Reviews and Ratings To Improve Your Marketing and Products
Online reviews are a gold mine for marketers, and fortunately for you, the gold keeps growing. Just four years ago, the volume of online reviews [more…]
How AI Grades for Influencers Help With Brand Safety
In a crowded marketplace, influencer marketing ranks as an effective strategy for brands to reach new audiences. Yet, many marketers, whether in B2B or B2C, [more…]
21 Great Ideas To Get Your Content Audience To Take Action
You don’t just create content for the sake of the audience. You’re a marketer. You create content to ultimately drive profitable customer action. (It’s right [more…]
Brand Story Archetypes
Does every “new” show, series, and film you watch these days seem like something you’ve seen before? You’re not experiencing déjà vu, and Hollywood (probably) [more…]
Can You Rent Success by Publishing Beyond the Website?
“Success is never owned. Success is only rented, and the rent is due every day.” That quote from Rory Vaden’s book Take the Stairs always [more…]
So, Google’s a Monopoly — Will Anything Change?
Shocking news this week. A U.S. court found Google, that tiny little Northern California company that provides search, advertising, and other online services, to be [more…]
Branded Content Examples
Branded content is among the most misunderstood of all content tactics. While it’s a distinct approach, it’s easy to confuse it with other paid campaign [more…]
How To Turn Old Content Into a New Work of Art With an AI Assist
Have you heard any of the countless remixes of New Order’s instant classic Blue Monday? Each one reimagines the synth-laden ’80s staple, a derivative of [more…]
The New Facts About Your Owned Media Strategy
I’ve seen several articles and social media posts recently about why modern content marketing needs a “beyond the website” strategy. Here’s the gist of these [more…]
How To Create User Stories That End Frustrating Conversations About Marketing
The CEO asks the company’s data scientist if the marketing strategy should incorporate generative AI and large language models. The data scientist responds: “The epiphany [more…]
Small Player Wins Big in Brand Games
Marketing plasters the Olympics. In the Parade of Athletes, at every event venue, and during every media opportunity, the competitors generally wear the branded apparel [more…]
23+ Roles You Might Need on Your Content Marketing Team
You learn the 2025 budget has room to add a new role to your content and marketing team, and you get to decide what that [more…]
How This B2B Company Stole B2C’s Sizzle To Heat Up Its Content
Everybody expects content about refrigeration products to be boring. That’s why the marketing team at Heatcraft Refrigeration Products wanted to flip the script in B2B [more…]
10 Essential Tips for Data-Driven Content Marketing [Sponsored]
Thanks to AI, any marketer can quickly create a blog post, article, or other type of content in minutes. But whether that content will resonate [more…]
How To Balance Marketing Specialists and Generalists
Do you remember when your whole family went to the same doctor? Believe it or not, that wasn’t uncommon not so long ago. That one [more…]
Google Drops Out of the Anti-Cookie Campaign. What’s Next?
A huge leader dropped out of a major campaign this week. Oh, you thought we meant that national race in the United States? No, that’s [more…]
What Hiring Managers Look for in Content and Marketing Job Seekers
A dozen applications arrived shortly after the posting for a copywriter on the content marketing team at The TemPositions Group of Companies went live. Walter [more…]
Don’t Start an Original Research Project Before Answering These 8 Questions
Original research creates a unique differentiator in your content marketing program, but not everyone or any AI tool can do it successfully. Before you ever [more…]
Creative People Aren’t Wicked Problems To Solve
We’re headed down the wrong road with generative AI. Over the last few months, I’ve been struck by the messages from major gen AI solution [more…]
Combine GA4 and ChatGPT To Deliver More Insightful Analytics
Optimal day: Friday Optimal topics: Content marketing, SEO Start date: Upcoming Friday Frequency: Every other Friday Of course, you don’t need to follow ChatGPT’s suggestions [more…]
The Best New Metric for Marketers Since SEO Came Along
Do you have a share of model? We don’t mean like a super model or stock share. We’re talking about your brand’s share of answers [more…]
Experts Reveal the Worst (and Best) Advice on Using Generative AI in Content Marketing
Generative AI prompts a lot of reactions from content marketers. Everybody seems to have an opinion — or more than one — on the effect [more…]
How To Catch Audiences With Extraordinary Hooks
My wife had already fed our dog. Undeterred, the dog sat by her bowl with an innocent yet hungry look. I fell for it hook, [more…]
Time for a Content Reboot? How to Tell
Don’t you sometimes wish you could redo all that content created years ago? I go back to things I wrote half a dozen years ago [more…]
Surprising Search Behavior Teaches This Important Lesson
You have 173 days left to reach your marketing goals this year. Well, let’s be honest. Nobody really works or does anything after Dec. 20. [more…]
How To Unite Roles and Teams and Scale Your Content Operations
Ali Orlando Wert has led multiple content teams at high-growth companies fueled by acquisition. Although these teams are often pieced together from multiple acquired companies, [more…]
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 month. But it isn’t just consumers who like short content. [more…]
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 of internal Google documentation to SparkToro co-founder Rand Fishkin, the [more…]
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 want their brands to succeed in 2024 and beyond. “Attribution [more…]
How Better Source Interviews Lead To More Engaging Content
Ask a question; get an answer. Ask the next question; get the next answer. Repeat until done. That’s the basic formula of any interview. But [more…]
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: “Where do we start?” One told me she’d road-mapped an [more…]
What Should Agencies Do in a Flat-Growth Year?
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A long time ago (so long ago that Nickelback still had hits), my marketing leader would ask me what value my brand-building programs added to [more…]
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We didn’t get to the south of France this week, but we’ve been talking about Cannes Lions. At the International Festival of Creativity, the most [more…]
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Brands’ words and actions — including yours — matter. As politics, health care, and other cultural topics become more polarized, being authentic about your values [more…]
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A mentor of mine used to drill the following into my head: “You are not your target market.” He meant that it doesn’t matter if [more…]
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When is your content, our content? In the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) has a pizza delivered to his history [more…]
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Two brains are better than one. Embracing the machine brain of technology as a partner with the human brains of content marketers lets you do [more…]
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Time for a quiz. Do people trust: Non-governmental organizations (NGO)? Government? Media? If you answered no, no, and no, you would be right. According to [more…]
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I’ve heard about more organizations kick-starting their content marketing strategy lately. That’s a welcome change from the past year when teams hunkered down to figure [more…]
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Does Pride Month seem quieter this year? No big controversies stand out like last year, but no creative campaigns — so far — stand out [more…]
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Depending on your age, you’ve heard of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Younger people may recall the Edward Snowden revelation or Wikileaks and Julian Assange. [more…]
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Headlines are the workhorses of content. When they work well, they pull readers into your articles, e-books, podcasts, etc. When they don’t work, they keep [more…]
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You’d think that a new company with the resources of OpenAI would have a straightforward path to building trust. They had no legacy brand problems [more…]
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When is your audience NOT your end customer? If you’re a B2B marketer, you know the answer. Your job requires engaging and winning over distributors, [more…]
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 select the artifacts, and organize them into a story that [more…]
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You’ve heard the expression, “Work smarter, not harder.” Content marketing teams would do well to adopt that philosophy. Hard work alone can’t solve the struggle [more…]
Why Even Crushing Content Failures Aren’t Mistakes
Did you follow the Apple iPad Pro content debacle? Here’s a quick recap. A recent online ad for the new iPad Pro showed a large [more…]
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OpenAI and Google made waves in the world of artificial intelligence this week. In a studio set seemingly from the 1970s Merv Griffin Show, OpenAI [more…]
The Dos and Don’ts of Pitching Journalists To Get More From Your Owned Media
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Quality content can get your web pages ranking higher in Google search results. But contextual links can help, too. Google says the inclusion of [more…]
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What the heck should you do with social media in marketing these days? Content and marketing teams have been so wrapped around the AI axle [more…]
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An old saying goes that marketers only worry about two things — the logo and the Pantone color. Well, the entry of digital technology 25 [more…]
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Content marketing teams rarely talk about efficiency. You frequently discuss quality, conversions, and brand alignment. Your primary concerns center around the awesomeness of what you [more…]
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Your lack of social media guidelines could discourage employees from becoming brand advocates and even applicants from joining your company. I speak from personal experience. [more…]
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We should rename generative AI. I suggest calling it “expressional AI.” The dictionary defines “generative” as “having the ability to produce, originate, or reproduce something.” [more…]
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In the immortal words of Britney Spears, “Oops, they did it again.” No, we’re not talking about the US government approving a TikTok divestiture. It’s [more…]
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If only you could write faster … The deadline pressure would lessen. The work volume wouldn’t overwhelm. The headache assignment would go away more quickly. [more…]
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There’s something in the air. In the past week, I’ve been asked more questions about how to measure content marketing than I have in two [more…]
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Tell us you don’t know anything about marketing without telling us you don’t know anything about marketing. Last week, multibillionaire and marketing genius Elon Musk [more…]
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With so many nuances to content, from distribution to format to the buyer’s journey, you must take a drill-down approach to your analytics. Assess performance [more…]
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Content creation acts as the heart of effective content marketing. And, as a skilled creative practitioner, you pour your heart into your work every day. [more…]
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Change fatigue. It’s a thing. My good friend and amazing consultant Jenny Magic wrote a whole book on the topic. Undeniably, fewer businesses have worked [more…]
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To use AI or not to use AI, that is the question. Let’s hope things work out better for you than they did for Shakespeare’s [more…]
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I have a tough time putting aside my editor’s brain. Editors and good writers know what I’m talking about. It’s the hazard of the job. [more…]
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Creating content gets a lot of attention. But it can’t get an audience without a well-executed content publishing process. Content production requires systems and easily [more…]
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A massive change is coming to search. As Google experiments with AI in its standard search results and its Search Generative Experience (SGE), marketers must [more…]
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Feeling stuck with generative AI? Here’s a way to get unstuck. I’d like to ask you to think about two questions. First, did you see [more…]
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What’s really going on with generative AI and marketing? We wanted to know, so we went straight to the source and asked. No surprise, generative [more…]
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