7 Ways to Launch White Papers with a Bang

Marketing your white paper before it is launched can help create buzz and get people lined up to read it as soon as it’s available. Start your marketing push a week or two ahead of time and you should have plenty of time to generate excitement and prepare to engage your readers. These tips will help you pave the way for the big launch.

Are Your Content Registration Forms an Entry Point or a Barrier?

Most prospects want to keep vendors at arm’s length until they are fairly far along in their buying decision process. So marketers need to keep in mind that content registration forms can be a barrier and decide strategically when it’s appropriate to ask for contact details — and how much information to request. Here are the essentials.

The Essential Playbook for Winning the Content Marketing Super Bowl

In the big game of content marketing, scoring points means expanding your audience and establishing authority with your fans. Here are 7 points that outline winning plays that will soon have you celebrating.

Content Marketing Ideas You Don’t Want to Miss: Best from CMI 2011

On this third day of CMI’s “best-of” 2011 posts, we share more advanced, authoritative posts from our expert CMI contributors on content marketing ideas, as well as how-to’s on improving your content marketing process and management efficiency.

Content Marketing Basics: The Best from CMI 2011

In this week’s second “best of CMI” compilation of posts, we focus on Content Marketing basics, from what it is (and is not) to how to get started. This selection of content marketing fundamentals from our 2011 CMI contributors should help guide and inform you when venturing into the world of content marketing.

Content Marketers: Leverage Those Relationships!

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 [...]

13 Content Options to Support Purchases

Is your marketing organization on the fence about using content marketing? If so, consider recent research from Cone Inc., which shows that across formats consumers are increasingly going online to find content that will help them make purchase decisions. While Cone Inc.’s research highlights that consumers continue to turn to ratings and reviews and that [...]

Content Marketing Playbook 2011 – 42 Ways to Connect with Customers [free eBook]

After months of work, the Content Marketing Playbook is finished. A big thanks to Jonathan Kranz, who worked with me to put this together, and our sponsors PR Newswire and Eloqua for making this possible. What is the Content Marketing Playbook? This year’s Playbook consists of 42 different content marketing tactics, all ranked in popularity [...]

23 Ways to Leverage a Blog Post for Content Marketing Success

The biggest challenge B2B marketers face is producing engaging content (36%), a Content Marketing Institute survey of 1,100 marketers revealed.  One way to address this challenge is to plan obsolescence in your content marketing strategy, a tactic recently explained by Joe Chernov from Eloqua. Today, I want to share another option with you:  Leveraging your [...]

4 Steps to Publish an E-Book: Tap into Your Existing Articles

Has this ever happened to you? You run around looking for your car keys. You could’ve sworn you just saw them right there on the counter. But now they’re gone. Then you hear that familiar jingle. You slide your hand into your pocket. Tada! Your keys were right under your nose the whole time.

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