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Finding Your Sweet Spot – An Extreme Content Focus [Exercise]

You can’t fill content holes in every part of the enterprise and have the best content marketing strategy in the world. You must choose a focus. You must differentiate. Here’s an exercise to help you find your content sweet spot.
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3 Ways to Use Transparency in Content to Cut Through the Noise

As Robert Rose says, content can be the biggest differentiator for your product or service. How do you differentiate your content? Be transparent – tell authentic stories that your audience wants to read. Start with these three ways.
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22 Ways to Promote Your E-Book

Don’t think promoting your e-book ends with the creation of a landing page, tweet of a link, and an email to your customers. Start the game with the 22 tips offered in this sales funnel guide for e-book promotion.
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Host Your Own Twitter Chat: Time-Saving Advice, Tools, and Templates

Go behind the scenes at the Content Marketing Institute to learn why we started Twitter chats, what changed our approach, and how to make chats a valuable component of your content program.
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This Week in Content Marketing: How to Pen a ‘Content Marketing Is Dead’ Article

Joe and Robert talk the real reason behind opening up Facebook instant articles to everyone, BBC’s move away from TV, and Google’s drop of right-side ads. Plus, rants and raves, with yet another Content-Marketing-Is-Dead article.
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How to Increase Conversions at Each Stage of the Customer Journey

It doesn’t make sense to treat visitors on their first interaction with your brand the same as those on their sixth. What if you treated them based on where they are in their journey? Consider moving along with these three stages.
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Why (and How) Marketers Need to Become Content-Efficiency Experts

Given that the average B2B firm wastes 25 cents of every dollar it spends on content, making your content operations more efficient isn’t something to do someday. It's something that you need to act on today. Start with these 3 ways.
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[NEW RESEARCH] B2B Manufacturers Stuck When It Comes to Content Marketing

Only 18% of B2B manufacturing marketers say their organizations are effective at content marketing. Discover how that’s changed in a year, the key differentiators, and one tactic that manufacturers are finding especially effective.
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The Best Advice to Follow for Social Media Content Success

Social media isn’t as easy as showing up and collecting followers. If you are struggling to socialize your content efficiently and effectively, take a look at some of the compelling advice we've gathered from our Twitter chats.
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Why You Need Two Types of Content Strategist

Content strategists come in two types – front end and back end. If your content is a business asset, you need to understand both roles so you can ensure you have the right kind of help at the right time.
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Bringing Ideas to Life: A Look Behind the Creative Curtain

Recently, I came across my sketches for the theme of CMWorld 2015. I thought it would be neat to share the creative process from simple ideas on paper to the final products. Learn how a theme develops and materializes for maximum effect.
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This Week in Content Marketing: Brands Create More Content with Less Engagement

Joe and Robert discuss Time’s acquisition of Myspace, Twitter’s opt-in feed change that likely will go “full Facebook”, and research on brands creating more content but having even less engagement, plus rants, raves, and an example.