Stories By Robert Rose
The Struggle Is Real for Content Management and Technology [New Research]
New Content Marketing Institute research highlights that the struggle with content management strategy lies in the unused junk drawer of once bright and shiny technology. Learn why marketers are awash and using brute force.
What’s the Difference Between Content Marketing, Branded Content, and Native Advertising?
Understanding the differences among content marketing, branded content, and native advertising can help you make a better business case for each and optimize your chance for success. Let the learning begin.
Your 2020 Mission: A Unified Strategy for Content in Your Marketing
We’re in 2019 and CMI is about to run up on more than a decade’s worth of experience. Let’s take a breath and see where we are. Quite honestly, we’re humbled at the level of innovation we’ve witnessed. It’s time for us to evolve too.
Say No to the Rise of Internal Content Agencies – and Other 2019 Trends
CMI’s content marketing meteorologist shares his forecast for 2019. Read on to learn what will (or should) happen with the rise of internal agencies, the confusing martech landscape, and buy-vs.-build thinking.
Are You Generating Demand or Just Identifying It?
New research from Content Marketing Institute illuminates five ways content marketers can maximize their demand gen efforts.
4 Business Models for Content Marketing
How do you evolve your business strategy for the digital world? Don’t focus on inventing, focus on integrating a combination of changes to install the function of content as a business model. Here are four models to consider.
Want to Prove Content’s Success? Stop Measuring It
The business value of content marketing cannot be measured by standard content metrics (views, time on page, shares, etc.) Value lies in the behavior change of the audience affected by the content. How can you measure real value?
How Tech Debt Is Bankrupting Content Marketing
Three months shy of its 5th birthday, the company’s digital magazine was killed. The C-suite underestimated the cost of tech upgrades. Content marketing was the victim. Yes, technical debt is now one of your biggest threats.
GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade
You can’t legalize or “software” your way out of the GDPR challenge. You must innovate, design, and create your way into the GDPR. It’s the biggest opportunity in more than a decade for content marketers to become strategic.
Content Marketing and Sales Alignment: Bridging the Gap [Research]
Tension between sales and marketing in the B2B environment persists. It can create an innovative atmosphere. Or it can be the blame game. Learn how content has changed (and can change) the sales and marketing environment.
An Alternative Approach to Developing Content Marketing Personas
Audiences are not just buyers. They may help us connect with new customers. They may amplify our reach. They may strengthen our trust with other audience members. That’s why we must change the way we go about developing our personas.
The Business Story Argument: A Working Framework to Pressure Test Your Story
Want an easy-to-follow test to see if your story is well-crafted, entertaining, engaging, and ultimately convincing? Learn Robert Rose’s new three-act pressure test (and how to create the framework if you don’t have one).