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Get Your Content Team Out of That Creative Rut

Your creative teams set out to create, distribute, and promote amazing content. But sometimes they get into a rut, leading to humdrum content with less-than-stellar results. Learn how to help lead your team out of that rut.
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How Does Your Enterprise Measure Up? A Look at Challenges, Trends & Opportunities [New Research]

How much does the content marketing game change at the enterprise level? That’s a question explored in detail with CMI’s latest research study. Let’s look at some of the big issues, trends, and opportunities the findings revealed.
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Forgetting Resolutions and More Practical Content Marketing Advice

We aren’t asking you to make new year resolutions. Instead, we suggest you follow the bulletin board-worthy advice from some of CMI’s 2018 webinar presenters. They involve friends – new and old, fun, and more, including a hint of bacon.
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85+ Expert Predictions for Content Marketing in 2019

What are some of the changes content marketers are likely to encounter over the next 12 months and beyond? Find out what dozens of experts see on the horizon in our 11th annual e-book of content marketing predictions.
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The 2 Things You Need to Know From the Best CMWorld Talks (Including Tina Fey’s)

Sure, Tina Fey gave great advice at Content Marketing World. But was she as genuine backstage as she seemed on stage? Authenticity is one of two ingredients you need to become a trusted source – and up your content marketing game.
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How to Be an Agent of Change: Examples From Top Content Marketing Award Winners

When it comes to embracing change and moving forward in a more positive direction, we can all learn a few lessons from these winners and finalists from this year's Content Marketing Awards.
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Content Marketer of the Year Shares the REI Story

Team builders. Innovators. Humble. Results-oriented. Excellence. Those are some of the characteristics of Content Marketer of the Year finalists. Before we roll out the 2018 list, let’s talk to the 2017 winner, REI’s Paolo Mottola.
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4 Secrets of Great Storytellers

Daniel Pink says, “The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers …” Want to make your content marketing belong in the future? Follow four secrets of great storytellers.
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Pre-Event Content: 5 Tips for Creating Excitement (and a Bit of FOMO)

Marketers often center campaigns on content, but unfortunately too many marketers of events think about content too late. Learn how to create high-quality and engaging pre-event content with these five tips and examples.
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The Rare White Squirrel Who Eats Pumpkins (and Other Stories of Creativity)

How does a white squirrel inspire creative content? Learn that and discover more ideas to make your content more creative – even if you work in a boring industry – with practical tactics from CMI’s Content Creativity Day presenters.
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22 Examples From Brands (and Marketers) That Are Winning at Content Marketing

Want some inspiration to advance your content marketing practices? Look no further than these Content Marketing Awards Project of the Year finalists, and the remarkable things they achieved through content marketing.
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Excellence in Content Marketing: Be Inspired by Some of our Judges’ Favs

Excellence in content marketing involves many things – audience, intent, format, design, ROI, and more. Learn six of the central themes seen in the winning entries of the 2017 Content Marketing Awards, which were announced today.