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This Week in Content Marketing: The Battle for Custom Content

We discuss the battle to dominate the content space, define the role of the journalist, share rants and raves on content commitment and communication, and discover a missed content marketing opportunity in our example of the week.   
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3 Brands Driving Change With Social Video

Cause marketing requires you to tell a story that compels the audience to take action while resisting the pitfalls of coming across as desperate or preaching. These three organizations show how to do that with the power of video.
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How Virtual Reality Could Change Content Marketing

As virtual and augmented reality get a foothold, marketers must understand how and when to dive in. An early pioneer in VR for brands shares the lessons she learned and several organizations already doing it well.
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5 Reasons SEO Should Take a Back Seat With Website Content

Sure, SEO is important. But there are situations when you don't need to sweat it or can at least scale back the effort. Here are five times when SEO shouldn’t be the highest priority.
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How to Use Earned Media to Boost Your SEO

Google and other search engines have grown the impact of earned media. Once a goal of traditional PR, earned media is even more crucial today to gain authority for your content efforts and improve your SEO. Start with these three steps.
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The 7 Traits of Successful Content Marketers

Recently, I dusted off Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. Though 80 years old, the book offers some clear takeaways that most corporate marketers simply do not embrace. Here’s my take on seven chapters spot-on for content marketing.
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How to Produce 300 High-Quality Articles a Year: An 8-Step Process

A content marketer who writes around 300 articles a year shares his process to manage his editorial content effectively, from an editorial-only calendar to an eight-step content process.
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This Week in Content Marketing: Go Home Facebook, Your Journalism Project Is Drunk

This week, we explore Facebook's Journalism Project, and find irony in an attack on Star Magazine. Our rants include a soda promotion that fizzled out; then we wrap up with a lesson on finding your growth potential through content.
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Need Engaging, Authentic Content? Unleash the Power of Conversations

Raw, unfiltered perspectives of customers provide powerful, new insights for your content marketing program.  But don’t rely on technology to find out what they have to say. Have a conversation with them and those who work with them.
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Confused About Agile Marketing? Your Questions Answered [With Video]

Most marketers remain confused about Agile marketing. Though the modus operandi is basic – release work rapidly, learn from its performance, and adjust accordingly – it’s hard to shift to work this way. Now, let’s answer some FAQs.
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Merging Two Blogs: Strategies for Content Success

Do you want to combine two blogs into one? Did you acquire a strong SEO domain and need to create a new blog? How do you merge or transfer multiple blogs into one? Here’s how to do it and to keep your original content’s SEO power.
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Ask Great Interview Questions Like a Journalist

Interviewing people who offer unique perspectives on your topic or industry can set your brand’s content apart from competitors’. Mastering this skill of interviewing is difficult. Take this advice from the most famous interviewers.