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Ultimate Planning Checklist for Successful Webinars

Webinars breathe life into static content. They can help move your buyer’s sales needle from “just researching” to “ready to buy now.” This five-act checklist will help you plan and execute a well-produced webinar.
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Create a Buyer Persona: 9 Essentials

Develop robust buyer personas from these nine essential parts. You’ll end up with personas that you and your team want to use – personas that help you make good decisions about the content you create and manage for prospective buyers.
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Your CEO Needs These 4 Content Marketing Metrics

Using vanity metrics doesn’t position you as a strategic player. Instead, illustrate how your team’s work is impacting the business. Here are four metrics to share with your CEO to show how content marketing can truly drive growth.
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Interactive Content: The Good, Bad, and Wicked Cool Quizzes and Games

Adding interactive features to your content is a powerful way to enhance its reach, impact, and performance. With these tech-forward efforts, prepare to go beyond the cool factor and create meaningful interactive content experiences.
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4 Ways to Model the Buyer’s Journey

The arc of your buyer's journey is like the arc of a story. Each buyer, each story is unique. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use buyer journey models to optimize your content marketing. Here are four to consider.
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The Miles Davis Approach to Content Marketing Strategy

I was listening to NPR’s profile of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album, and I kept having aha moments in relation to my own content marketing work. Let me share five key lessons inspired by Davis to boost your content marketing strategy.
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This Week in Content Marketing: Red Bull Is Not in the Content Marketing Business

The guys talk the end of the media business as we know it then share the keys to subscriber success. Plus, the duo talks about confusing terms and Marriott’s scaling content marketing, plus rants, raves, and example of week.
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How the Audience Seizes Control with Ad Blocking Tools Post-Advertising Age

Ad blockers exist because too many brands want to deliver too many messages that don’t matter to a single person. As everyone with any sense is saying, the time is past due to put the audience first. That may sound easy; it isn’t.
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From 2 Hours to 2 Minutes: How This CMI Duo Blew Away a Tedious, Unscalable Content Task

If you’re looking for smarter ways to use content technology, let this story inspire you. The CMI team worked together to automate a tedious, unscalable website task, saving production time and improving the audience experience.
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How to Solve 5 Barriers to Implementing A Thriving Content Publishing Model

You can’t just flip a switch and give birth to a healthy publishing function. It takes considerable planning, a strong coalition, and hurdling of stubborn obstacles. Here are five challenges – and the quick wins to overcome them.
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The Blog Post Checklist for Cranking Your Search Ranking

The search gods see all. And they don’t look kindly on your 2010-era SEO. They now are good at sniffing out evidence that shows readers get value from your pages. Check out the 21 tips in this infographic to raise your SEO efforts.
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The Secret to Content Marketing ROI

How do you build the business case for content marketing and answer the ROI question before you really get started? It starts by understanding what makes up content ROI and considering these three business-oriented goals.