Achieving greater success with content marketing takes dedication, determination, and an enterprise-wide view of every piece of content. This DIY toolkit of checklists, templates, and resources can help make that more manageable.

A customer-journey map can help you answer the perennial question – what content shall we create? Better yet, it can help you answer the question – what content do our customers want? Here’s how to create the map, step by step.

Want an easier way to get buy-in on your content ideas? This planner is an easy-to-use, easy-to-share place to capture data and insights that lead to a strategically solid content marketing plan. You’ll keep using it even after you get approval.

Helpful content is often scattered across a website, posted in multiple locations (and in multiple formats) rather than in a structured, centralized place. Find out how to drive retail sales with B2C content marketing. Get 8 tips and a checklist to help you create a resource center to organize -- and...

If you want to produce great content, it's time to leave ordinary in the dust. No matter how you promote and distribute your efforts, the content itself has to command attention. Great content is about what you say, how it works to express who you are as a company, and how well it functions as a means...

Some of the newest business-focused books on the market hold valuable lessons for building the successful content marketing experiences you need to deliver on a consistent basis. Read on to find inspiration and tips for fostering creativity, making presentations more engaging, increasing productivity...

Blogging has become a key content marketing activity, and the more you blog, the more you need a simple, scalable way to track your previous posts and plan future content. Find out how to organize your blog content with a 3-step post tracker.

Today, we're thankful for everyone who has helped make our #CMWorld Twitter chats a success by attending, participating or reading the Twitter streams each week. To say thanks, we're sharing some of the lessons we learned from running our chats. Get a step-by-step guide for using Twitter chats in your...

Curation is nothing new, but online content curation is still in its early stages. Many content marketers are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. If you're in this group, use this 10-step checklist as a guide.

In our era of limited time and budget resources, measuring the quality of day-to-day and week-to-week content curation efforts can be a challenge. Use this 10 question scorecard to gauge your ability to discover, share, and create "the best content marketing on the planet" on an ongoing basis.

Create content perfection by incorporating 5 essential ingredients into your content marketing operations. Because content marketing is an ongoing process, not a "one-and-done" campaign, use our handy checklist to make sure your content marketing operations always include elements of the 5 essentials...

By far, the most popular post we have ever published at the Content Marketing Institute is "10 Must-Have Templates for Content Marketers." To that end, we wanted to provide a refresher on the most popular templates and checklists shared by the CMI team and our guest contributors. Check out what's new,...