For content marketing optimization, keep your head above water in a rising tide of data by focusing on a "critical few metrics" to measure and communicate the business outcomes of your content efforts. The beauty of the critical few metrics concept is it forces us to think about business outcomes instead...

With wearables seemingly bearing down on us all, how can we adopt a pragmatic but open frame of mind on this new category? It seems like wearable everything is inevitable, but a lot of it still seems like a distant sci-fi promise. Marketers would do well to at least start kicking around ideas now. Find...

In this episode, Robert and Joe discuss how content marketing is hitting the big time at Harvard Business Review. In addition, they chat about media agencies getting into the content production business, explain why email is far from dead, and then touch on a handful of research posts that are readily...

How can you know if your content is adequately supporting your marketing and business goals? In this seventh post of our Back to Basics series, we outline a simple plan you can use for tracking and measuring the marketing effectiveness of your content program.

Use these strategies to boost content marketing SEO and link building for your company with something you already have in-house -- your employees. The social media marketing world already has a set of systems and web applications to assist with the process of utilizing employee resources. Find out more...

If you want to produce great content, it's time to leave ordinary in the dust. No matter how you promote and distribute your efforts, the content itself has to command attention. Great content is about what you say, how it works to express who you are as a company, and how well it functions as a means...

Wherever you are in life, you probably got there at least partially by building relationships. The same goes for your organization and the content you create. Relationship building can open up opportunities that will help your content really take off. Learn more about 4 key relationships every content...

One of the top challenges enterprise organizations experience in developing successful content marketing programs is a lack of alignment around employee goals. Take a page from Facebook: Finding the right metrics for gauging content success is just as important as any other business decision you will...

Content marketing is evolving rapidly -- growing in both scale and sophistication. Your organization is also facing ever-greater competition. What's the common thread that spans these challenges? Technology. Find out more about why your content marketing team needs a marketing technologist.

In this week's episode, Robert and Joe discuss CMI's purchase of the Intelligent Content Conference, then dive into P&G's new edict that all marketing titles will change. They also discuss some new research on how brands spend money to promote owned media content and Robert rants about the fury over...

While it takes a wide variety of skills to achieve content marketing success, there is one essential role that any company looking to get started in content marketing will need to fill: the managing editor. This sixth installment of our "Back to Basics" series delves into the skills needed to build,...

If the ultimate goal of content is to drive sales, how do you create content that promotes your product, speaks to your customers and also helps you reach your business goals? If you're overwhelmed by the struggle to combine all of these factors, take these 4 steps to develop a B2B content marketing...