Stories By Ann Gynn
22 Things You Wish Marketers Would Stop Doing on Social Media
Scrolling through social media platforms can be an irritating experience. Too many brands and individuals don’t use their digital megaphones effectively. What are they doing wrong? Read on for 22 of the biggest social media pet peeves.
Is Your Content Ready to Zig and Zag With Your Buyers?
Prospects follow a messy path to buying. Does that mean you should give up on the straight path buyer-journey model? Nope. Organize your content so it’s ready for the mess, while keeping those stages in mind. Here’s how.
24 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid in Content Marketing
Sure, we can learn from our mistakes. But we also can learn from others’ mistakes and avoid making them. To help you, we enlisted the help of some smart and wise people who share mistakes they’ve seen and how to fix them.
Is April Fools’ Day Worth the Risk for Brands?
April Fools’ Day is a tempting conundrum. Does it provide a good enough reason to break the rules and betray your audience’s trust with fake content, absurd headlines, or fictional products? Let’s give it some serious thought.
Don’t Miss Out on These 7 Ways to Use Your Social Media Data
Social shares often get lost in the data shuffle. To uncover the hidden gems in that data, you must use social-sharing data in your content marketing program. Here are seven ideas to get started.
How to Make Your Writing More Powerful
Digital media fostered a generation of lazy writing. Without finite space demanded of print, writers aren’t forced to edit. To keep skills sharp, writers must do writing workouts. Start with these five exercises.
How to Get the Content Marketing Salary You Deserve
Does your salary reflect your content marketing responsibilities and contributions to your employer? The Creative Group’s salary guide can help. And, if a raise is in order, learn how to ask from your fellow content marketers.
13 Fresh Ideas to Get More Content Marketing Zing From Employees
Employees can share your content, serve as expert resources, and let you know what customers are saying. But how can your employees really become a differentiator in your content marketing? Here are 13 ideas.
7 Great Lessons You Might Have Missed From Content Marketing World
Since you don’t have enough time to attend or watch all the sessions at Content Marketing World, we’ve curated lessons from seven of them that we wrote about this year – from words and visuals to audiences and audits.
Sample 11 of the Best B2B and B2C Content Marketing Ideas of 2018
A legal team stars in a music video. A cruise line writes romance stories. A fast-food chain creates an investigative podcast. B2B and B2C brands elevated creativity to inspiring levels in 2018 and CCO magazine shared some of the best.
Clickbait Content: Is It Good or Bad?
Given its denotative definition, clickbait does what all content marketers want – it entices the audience to click on the headline and consume their content. So why is it on lists of practices to avoid? Can it ever be used for good?
How to be Purposeful With Your Purpose-Driven Content [Examples]
More than two-thirds of people are more willing to share content from purpose-driven brands than traditional brands. But that content isn’t just a cause-colored ribbon post. It comes from an authentic, organic content marketing strategy.