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This Week in Content Marketing: Why is Marketing Still Subservient to Sales?

This week, Joe and Robert discuss a New York Times/Google Maps hybrid ad; ponder Google's decision to shelve Google Glass; and speculate on whether Facebook's "Work" will work. Rants and raves include Newcastle's crowdsourced Super Bowl ad. The show wraps up with an inspirational #ThisOldMarketing example...

How to Manage Your Freelance Content Providers

The biggest challenge with freelance content providers is managing them. If you don’t do it well, you most likely will receive subpar work. These 12 tips will give you insight in how to develop successful freelance relationships.
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Structured Content: Get Started with Content Models

Natalya Minkovsky explains what a content model is, how content models can help make content intelligent, and why businesses should care.

3 Things Your Arsenal Needs to Manage a Team of Content Creators

Effectively managing your content team requires more than free pizza and comfortable chairs. So how do you manage content creators while giving the structure, freedom, and feedback they require? Arm yourself with these three things.

The New Era of the Hybrid Marketer

Being a one-dimensional marketer is not a good way to get ahead. Today’s successful marketers are hybrids. We integrate old and new channels into one overall marketing strategy. Learn what you need to know to be a good hybrid marketer.

7 Key Pieces of Advice about Web Content Strategy from Matt Cutts

In over 500 videos, Google’s Matt Cutts answered the questions businesses asked. TheShortCutts.com abbreviates them all. Want to learn his insight into website content? Start with these seven abbreviated answers and author takeaways.

5 Steps to Run Effective Large-Scale Content Projects

Tackling a large-scale content project – think 1.6 million words in 12 weeks – isn’t pretty or easy. But it is doable if you lay the foundation to guide and support a great team of content producers with these five manageable steps.

This Week in Content Marketing: The YouTube Killer Is Not Facebook, It's Twitter

A sad week in This Old Marketing as the Cowboys and The LEGO Movie lose. But Joe and Robert persevere to ask if B2B content marketing is a failure, the FTC will regulate native advertising, and how big Twitter’s video play will be.

Experts Share Visual Content Mistakes to Avoid

As the value of visual content grows and design tools become inexpensive, many marketers churn out mediocre graphics that get ignored. Seven experts share how to avoid mistakes and create successful visual content marketing.

Simplify Your Content Marketing Strategy with a One-Page Plan

If you lack a written content marketing strategy, a one-page plan is a great start. It can help you crystalize your strategy, gain stronger buy-in from executives, and keep content producers strategically aligned. Here’s how to begin.

6 Free Tools to Help Keyword Research

Nowadays, it's not only risky to focus on certain keywords, but it's counterproductive. Google wants to understand concepts, not the exact sequence of words searchers type. These six free tools can really help your keyword searches.

Pillars of Content Marketing Success

Content marketing spending is increasing, but traditional marketers still struggle with the shift to a pull strategy. If you have ever been asked how content marketing can really work, share these five pillars with the inquisitors.