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Stories By Joe Pulizzi

Michael Jordan, Failure, and Setting Content Goals

Setting the right content marketing goals sometimes starts with a bit of soul searching. Are you looking for the higher purpose? Maybe Michael Jordan can help us find the way.

5 Critical Content Marketing Tactics to Consider Now

Some obvious, some not...but these five content marketing tactics can help take your content marketing strategy to the next level. How's your content marketing strategy these days?

5 Reasons for the Great Content Marketing Correction

Why is content marketing the flavor of the year? Simply put, most brands are overweight in paid media and we are going through a correction. Here are five reasons for the shift.

Setting Uncomfortable Content Marketing Goals: Now

If you are comfortable with your content marketing goals, there's a problem. You need to set uncomfortable goals to win with content marketing. Here's how.

5 Reasons Why Content Marketing Is No Buzzword

Recently, more and more posts are talking about content marketing as a buzzword. I'm not sure that's even possible. Here's five reasons why.

Six Useful Content Marketing Definitions

Looking for a definition of content marketing? Here are six useful examples depending on your current content marketing need - formal, for practitioners and even one for non-believers.

Finding Your Content Marketing Hedgehog

As content marketers, should we be creating and distributing content in every conceivable platform? Maybe not. Maybe we should find our hedgehog - what we can be the best in the world at - and focus on that instead.

12 Challenges that Stop Marketers from Creating Epic Content Marketing

So many content marketing challenges, so little time. Content marketers often get in their own way... but this is something we can fix. Here are 12 content marketing challenges from Joe Pulizzi, with a few ideas on what the remedies might be.

An Essential Resource for Building and Managing an Online Community [NEW BOOK]

Capturing Community, a new book by Michael Silverman covers everything from how to build an online community to how to manage and measure its progress. Free chapter inside.

Mitch Joel on Blogging, the Art of Podcasting and the Next Big Thing [Interview]

Joe Pulizzi talks to Mitch Joel — a founding father of blogging and president of Twist Image — about the art of the podcast and what ‘screen’ marketers should keep their eyes on.

10 Ways to Optimize Your Enewsletter Landing Page

Some amazing information from Jeanne Jennings on 10 different ways to optimize your enewsletter landing page to get more subscribers AND increase your rates of conversion.

3 Ways to Extract Brand Stories from Inside the Company

Sometimes getting the best brand stories extracted from inside the organization can be difficult at best. This post focuses on three easy-to-implement ideas that will help you get the most thought leadership content out of your executive employees.