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Get It Together: Try the Ideas in the 5 Most Popular Content Planning Posts

You feel pressure to fill your editorial calendar. You ponder the how, who, and what that will produce results. You’re not alone. To help, we share ideas from our five most popular recent articles on content planning.
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6 Things to Improve Your Content Performance

High-performing content is good for your brand and for your readers. But how do you create it? Here are six steps to go from “just OK” to high-powered, massively successful content.
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Who Should Be at the Center of Your Sales and Marketing Alignment?

Sales and marketing team alignment requires them to put the buyer first. Explore what indicates alignment success. And learn to craft buyer personas that work for sales and marketing using only five insights.
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How To Perfect the One-on-One Interview

Through hundreds of interviews, Clare McDermott has learned how to diffuse tension, set a good conversational tempo, and design probing questions. Here’s her best advice for content marketers.
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The Bad News (and the Good) About 2020 [The Weekly Wrap]

This week, Robert Rose ponders when the other 2020 shoe will drop, talks with Highspot’s Marissa Gbenro about how CMOs plan to spend a predicted budget increase, and shares a post about Some Good News.
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15 Content Development Mistakes to Avoid

When you talk mistakes, are you usually referring to typos, grammatical errors, and misspellings? That granular focus could be your biggest gaffe. Let’s look at 15 of the biggest mistakes in content creation, production, and promotion processes.
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Is Clickbait Ever Used for Good?

Clickbait has a well-deserved bad rap. Yet, attracting an audience and getting it to click to a web page is a goal for many content marketers. Can you create clickbait that gets a good rap? Let’s discuss.
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How to Create a Content Marketing Playbook

Playbooks are an underused gem for managing the ongoing activities that contribute to long-term content marketing success. Here are the nine elements every playbook needs to be great.
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Are You Squeezing Out All the Big Ideas and Great People? [The Weekly Wrap]

This week, Robert Rose ponders squeezing out all the big ideas. He talks with a Content Marketing Agency of the Year leader about if we’re squeezing out all the great people. And he helps you squeeze out of writer’s block.
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5 Big Obstacles Encountered by B2B Content Marketers

Every corner of B2B is drowning in identikit, low-value content. Why? Complicated subject matter, stuffy audiences, and restrictive brand compliance? No, they don’t even make the list.
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The 5 Most Popular Content Analytics Articles on CMI

You “voted” and we’re reporting. Discover our five most popular articles about content analytics. They cover performance metrics that matter, Google reports you need, plus social media and influencer evaluation.
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How to Make Personal and Corporate Branding Work Together

You and your co-workers have professional personal brands. Your employer has a corporate or business brand. They are intertwined. Now, it’s time to be smarter about that connection and make it mutually beneficial.