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User-Generated Content: Let Your Fans Do Content Creation Work for You

Content creation is hard. But you don’t have to do all the heavy lifting on your own. Let your fans and followers put all their passion, knowledge, and artistic talent on display for others to see, learn from, and enjoy.
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Reinventing With Content: 3 Brands Find New Paths

What do you do when your usual business model can’t work? These three organizations turned to content marketing. One found a viral hit. One had fans clamor for more. And one may add a media brand to its business mix.
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9 Little-Known Font How-Tos for Instagram Stories

Over 500 million Instagram users post Stories every single day. But how can brands stand out in the crowd? Here are nine design-focused, lesser-known font hacks to help.
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5 Ideas to Ponder from CMI’s Top Social Media Articles

Social media can do so much for brands – distribute original content, promote content, grow communities, provide referral traffic, etc. But you can’t do it all. Here are five tips from the five most popular CMI articles on the topic.
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5 Content Lessons From John Krasinski’s Some Good News

Ever have a good idea but not the time to do it? That was John Krasinski. But then the pandemic hit and he had the time to create the Some Good News series. Here are five content lessons learned while watching the eight episodes.
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How to Transform Your LinkedIn Presence So It’s Not Just a Resume

Michaela Alexis shares how she built a mega personal brand on LinkedIn. It started a few years ago when her post, How I Landed My Dream Job in Two Weeks on LinkedIn, went viral. Now, she runs a LinkedIn consulting business.
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17+ Free Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Content

Maybe your content promotion budget’s been slashed. Maybe you never had one. Whatever the reason, these ideas will help your audience find your content and you only have to spend time to do them.
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6 Lessons in Loyalty Building From Health Care Content [Examples]

Scrapping posts about spring break safety and healthy on-the-go breakfasts, health care marketers now focus on COVID-19 content. They are centered on relationship-building. Look at six ways they’re doing it that we all can learn from.
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Content Curation on Social Demands More Than a Shared Link

Simply copying and posting links is not an effective content curation strategy for social media. Your audience needs to know why it’s important or relevant to them. It’s your job to provide that framework.
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6 Brands Share Real Content Marketing Examples That Convert

Learn how six brands, from a surfboard business and a stock photo company to a major consumer brand and a health care practice, delivered content that worked for them and their audience. Real results revealed.
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How to Do Visual Content With Low, Medium, and High Budgets

You don’t need the deepest pockets to create strong visual content. Follow this advice that covers three budget levels from low to high – $5,000 or less; $5,001 to $29,999, and $30,000-plus.
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Most Agencies Bet on This Distribution Model [New Research]

How do agencies use content marketing to promote their own businesses? Read on to learn. Discover how many use paid distribution models, which social media platform brings in the most business, and much more.