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How to Beat the Battle of an Ineffective Blog

Considering how powerful a role blogs can play in achieving content marketing goals, it's somewhat surprising to see such a gap between those who use it and those who rank it the top factor of success. Here are some ideas to bridge that gap.
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This Week in Content Marketing: Special Episode – How We Create Content

In this special episode, we share details of our personal working styles and processes, offer some content marketing predictions for the remainder of 2017, and share an example of the week that got Robert's engines revving.
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Content Marketing Industry: What’s Happening in Hiring [Research]

Hiring and retaining talent is an ongoing struggle. Learn what the research shows about content marketing hiring – from the biggest geographic markets to role-specific salaries, and from desired skill sets to retention activities.
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Bingeable Content: How to Move Buyers Through Your Sales Cycle Faster

What if you delivered content like Netflix? Enticing prospective customers with content they can binge on? If you did, you’d never waste another click to a dead-end content asset. You’ll keep people hooked after they click. Here’s how.
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17 No-Cost Ways Writers Can Extend Reach of Their Editorial

Writers spend most of their time writing, but they and the entire team need to make sure there is ample time to promote – to extend the reach of their content. CMI takes you behind the scenes to share how we do it.
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How Technology Content Marketers Can Earn Trust [Tips and Examples]

Their products and services may be in high demand, but technology marketers don't have it easy when it comes to earning the audience's interest, trust, and budget. Here are some tips that can help.
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How to Write Email Newsletters People Want to Open and Act On

Bad e-newsletters are a dime a dozen. Bad copy, design, or marketing messages won’t entice your subscribers to read – or be swayed to act and the ROI will be minimal. Here are nine ways to create newsletters that do get read.
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101+ Key Performance Indicators – Pick the Best KPI Options

If you’re not actively measuring your KPI, you’re missing opportunities to improve your business’s bottom line. Carefully selected KPIs also can be a useful reporting metric for marketers wanting to strengthen support for their work.
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This Week in Content Marketing: The New York Times Shows That Email Is the Next Best Thing

We explore NerdWallet's content-first business approach, and discuss how The New York Times is excelling at email. Our rants and raves include net neutrality and YouTube's ad crisis; then we close with an example of the week from Mobil.
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Read These Books: Summer Recommendations from Content Marketers

Need something to snap you out of your slump? Turn to your fellow marketers for advice about 12 books and podcasts that are practical, inspirational, and downright fun.
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How to Stop Wasting Time on the Wrong Content

Ever spent weeks crafting a big piece of content that generated almost no response? You could have avoided that disheartening flop if you didn’t put all your eggs into the big content basket – and released minimum viable content instead.
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2017 Mid-Year Content Marketing Checkup

CMI’s Joe Pulizzi offers 18 items to consider in a mid-year checkup of your content marketing program – from getting rid of your writers (you’ll have to read it to understand) to sending a journalist to cover your next industry event.