If you had the opportunity to attend Content Marketing World, or if you’ve been following this blog and checking out all of the amazing videos from the event, you may have lots of ideas on how to improve your content marketing. However, many organizations fail to see ROI from their content marketing...

As a writer, if you have easy, real-time access to intelligence on topics of interest to your readers based on the words and phrases they use while searching or sharing, can you create online content that is easier to discover and more compelling to read? Perhaps even more fundamentally, does such access...

New research from Skyword found that business-oriented web pages with images performed 91% better than those pages without images. Skyword examined the performance of tens of thousands of posts in performing the study, and was able to segment the value of images for business purposes (excluding entertainment,...

“The best argument against democracy,” said Winston Churchill, “is a five-minute argument with the average voter.” It’s as true in the social/ digital realm as it is in politics. Sure, it’s wonderful that everyone has a global communications supercomputer in their pocket, and can bring mighty brands...

The last time you heard from me on CMI was just before Content Marketing World in Cleveland. Since then, I’ve changed gears a bit, moving from the entrepreneurial life of an independent social business consultant to the team-focused corporate environment at Bob Evans Restaurants. It’s been...

Yesterday, Robert Rose and I held a workshop at Openview Venture Partners‘ headquarters in Boston. The workshop was based on our new book, Managing Content Marketing. The most compelling part of the workshop (at least according to the participants) was the topic of developing a content marketing...

One of the thousands of things we learned at Content Marketing World is that people still want (or you could even say need) in-person events. The event itself took the efforts of 100 people, from the staff to speakers to the event team and sponsors. The response from so many of you on the success of...

Let’s start with a challenge: Without mentioning other colors, describe the color orange. Seriously, try it. Go on. Impossible, right? Now imagine describing not only what an infographic is but also what makes a good one. Because it’s uniquely difficult to do this in the abstract, examples are...

“Uh oh,” you may be thinking. “The marketing department is talking about that whole blogging thing again. Last time we did this, it was a disaster. Worse, no one seemed to like my posts.” Yikes! Stop right there! And think again! Yes, a lot of corporate blogs are awful. But neither...

Joe Pulizzi talks to Pam Didner, Global Integrated Marketing Manager for Intel, about secret agent action flicks and Intel’s hip new social platform, The Museum of Me. CAPTION Joe Pulizzi: The “Intel Inside” campaign from the 1990s transformed Intel from a brand only engineers and technologists recognized...

B-roll is the extra footage captured to enrich the story you’re telling and to have greater flexibility when editing. Instead of featuring only talking heads on video, you want to have other images you can cut away to that will add dimension to your story. B-roll can include additional video footage,...

For the self-producer, here are some things to consider when selecting equipment: A video camera. This is pretty obvious, of course, but which one? There are thousands from which to choose that will be perfectly adequate for the DIY producer. Even something as modest as the video recorder on a smartphone...