Stories By Robert Rose
Content Management and Strategy: The Big Wave Is Here [New Research]
The 2021 Content Management and Strategy Survey finds glimpses of optimism. But we also see some lingering challenges for businesses as changes to the way we live, work, and take products to market have accelerated.
How Content Operations (Done Well) Magically Balances Creativity and Scale [Video Series]
Getting content operations right frees marketers to act like creative kids and still produce an efficient, scalable product. Here’s how we got to where we are today and four models to consider now.
How to Demystify the Process of Measuring Content Marketing ROI [Video Show]
You can’t determine a house’s value by measuring its fence height. Yet, marketers often make that kind of leap, using an arbitrary number to calculate ROI. Let’s delve smartly into measuring the content that feeds marketing.
Stop Turning Content Into Videos (and Start Doing This Instead) [Video Show]
Learn why you should rethink your digital video marketing strategy. Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Advisor at the Content Marketing Institute, offers insights about optimizing content to match the channel where it will be experienced.
What Is Media Planning – and Why Should Content Marketers Care? [Video Show]
Now that so many content marketers run their own media channels, they also must be media planners. Learn what that means, how to strike across paid, earned, owned, and shared channels, and more in this edition of Marketing Makers.
B2C Content Marketers, Get Ready for More Responsibility in 2021 [New Research]
The pandemic accelerated the fundamental changes underway in content marketing as CMI’s newly released B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2021 shows. Find out what else is up for this year and beyond.
Fine-Tune Your Reach and Frequency for Modern Marketing [Video Series Debut]
Catch the first episode of CMI’s new video and blog series – Marketing Makers. Each month, Robert Rose explores a foundational marketing concept and explains how it applies to content marketing. First up? Reach and frequency.
Get Your Content Governance in Order With This 1 Thing
Struggling to balance those big content marketing ideas with those ad-hoc requests? It’s time to do something about content governance. No, it’s not too big an idea or above your pay grade. Start with this idea.
Demand Gen for Content Marketing in the Next Decade [Research]
Leading up to 2020, demand gen goals involved creating content for search discovery and satisfying prospects’ information needs. Well, guess what? That’s no longer enough.
What You Need to Know About the Data Party Game
What’s in a name? In the data game, it could be a lot or nothing at all. Robert Rose sets the record straight on audience data origins, why it matters, and what it means for your content marketing future.
How to Measure the Value of Your Subscribers
Great marketing adds value that customers are willing to invest in and that can create wealth for the business. But not all customer investments involve a purchase. Learn and reflect on how you can develop an audience-as-customer business model.
Why Is It Harder to Stop Than to Start? [The Weekly Wrap]
This week, Robert Rose wraps up this podcast. He ponders if it can ever be as easy to stop things as it is to start them and he points toward what’s coming next every Friday.