Many businesses struggle to establish a blog and content marketing strategy that works well and shows results quickly. Try this 11-step plan for launching a successful business blog and reaping benefits within six months.

Telling marketers to listen is one thing. Helping them know whether to change strategy based on what they "hear" from their audience is entirely another. Find out how listening can go wrong and how B2B marketers can become content "whisperers."

Content Marketing World founder Joe Pulizzi slipped in a subliminal message with the entertainment on the biggest night of this year's conference. Boost your marketing success with these content marketing lessons from Rick Springfield.

There are many content marketing challenges, but many of them can be fixed — if content marketers would take simple steps to avoid getting in their own way. Here are 12 such challenges, with a few suggestions from Joe Pulizzi, on how to remedy them.

Theory is great, and all marketers should understand it. But practice is about execution. Build your strategy around these 8 truths which consider content marketing theory vs. practice.

Blogging and inbound marketing aren't working for a huge percentage of marketing agencies and "consultants." Find out why your blog isn't generating leads.

Too many content efforts sink because the sales and marketing sides don't take the time to understand each other. Find out more about content's role in the sales and marketing marriage.

The Beastie Boys were a brand unto themselves, with a huge fan base and some of the greatest MTV videos ever made. We can see now that they also were masters of repurposing content. Find out what your content marketing can learn from the Beastie Boys.

Fear of chaos and the unknown plague businesses struggling with the changing landscape of marketing today. CMI contributor Robert Rose suggests that to create engaging content, you have to hug the chaos.

In 2012, CMI contributors talked about everything from content marketing strategy to distribution. Here's a rundown of more than 60 of those content marketing essentials that we all can use to boost our efforts in the new year.

Over the past few months, we have kicked around a great number of content marketing ideas that can contribute to your success in the new year. Today we zoom in on three content marketing strategies to really get serious about in 2013.

In 2010, GEICO spent $745 million on advertising. You know -- the talking gecko ads? What if GEICO spent more on supporting content creation than on buying ads? Think about who you could partner with for content creation.