Stories By Ann Gynn
6 B2B Brands That Put the Creative in Their Content Marketing [Examples]
Valuing creativity makes a marked difference in B2B content marketing success. Here are six examples from the past year to inspire your B2B creativity in 2020 – and get your brand to appreciate creativity.
Look Inside the Idea Garage for 8 Fresh B2C Examples
We’re opening the door to reveal eight innovative B2C content marketing examples shared in Chief Content Officer’s Idea Garage in 2019. Feel free to bookmark this page for one-stop inspiration in 2020.
21 Marketing Strategy Books That Make Great Reads for Content Marketers
Overwhelmed by the many industry-related book releases in 2019? Your fellow content marketers have your back. They’re sharing what they found to be the most helpful and inspiring books that came out this year.
4 Content Experiences That Keep On Giving
Whether it’s a big investment or done with next to no budget, create content experiences that will let your audience learn and grow. It will pay off for your brand and your community. Learn how four businesses are doing just that.
How 7 Brands Are Using Text and Social Messaging Apps for Content Marketing
You can’t overestimate the power of a positive one-to-one relationship with your audience. That’s why discerning content marketers evaluate the power of direct messaging via text and social media. Find out what seven brands learned.
Stop Wanting to Be Liked (Instagram Is Doing It For You Anyway)
What’s a content marketer to do with the news Instagram is piloting elimination of public “like” counts in the United States? Take it as an opportunity to strengthen your overall social media program.
Guest Blogging: A Step-by-Step Guide
Unsuccessful prospective guest bloggers act like door-to-door salespeople. Successful prospective guest bloggers act like invited guests who show up with a nice host gift. How can you be the door knockers welcomed by publishing sites?
Cure Your Conference Hangover (and Better Your Content Marketing)
Your head hurts just thinking about what you should do based on what you learned at the conference – so many ideas, notes, new connections – to help your content marketing program. Cure your conference hangover with these 16 tips.
Want More Opens and Fewer Unsubscribes? Fix These 35 Email Mistakes
Consumers open an average of 3.5 brand emails a week. To be among those, you better get to work on perfecting this popular format and distribution vehicle. And you can start by reading (and fixing) these 35 mistakes.
What If You and Your Brand Could Break Up With Social Media?
Is your relationship with social media dysfunctional? You find the platforms an attractive way to connect with millions of people, yet you ponder what your (and your brand’s) life would be like without them. You’re not alone.
30 Ways to Waste Your Content Marketing Time
At month’s end, do you have more questions than answers about your content marketing program? Why is that post still not done? Why did video views drop? Why isn’t sales more supportive? The unifying answer revolves around one thing.
2020 Content Marketing: What’s Clear and What Needs to Be in Focus
If hindsight is 20/20, then this article offers both hindsight and foresight. Over 25 CMWorld 2019 speakers put on their 2020 content marketing glasses to see where marketers are passing the vision test – and what’s still blurry.