Sarah Tolle started her professional life teaching English in Spain and Hungry. On the side, she started writing content for a marketplace startup in the home design industry and, eventually, for other clients.

When her teaching stint ended and the Wisconsin native settled in Canada, Sarah increased her entrepreneurial activities. She continued creating content for clients, often startups, and expanded into strategy development and social media growth hacking. She also ran a handmade jewelry business on Etsy.Continue Reading

When brands decide to support a social cause or initiative, they too often take a Band-Aid approach.

They add a rainbow logo or frame to their social media profile. They publish a blog article explaining why the brand is committed to combatting climate change. They air a short video to announce new benefits for employees after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.Continue Reading

Diane di Costanzo experiences the best of two worlds in a unique content marketing role.

As chief content officer, vice president/editorial director at Foundry 360, Dotdash Meredith’s branded content division, she exercises her brand-content strategy muscles by overseeing about 30 traditional client-side programs at any time.

And as editor-in-chief of the editorially independent (and single sponsored supported) print and digital publications Millie Magazine and PawPrint, she uses her journalism experience daily.Continue Reading

Four months before its January 2022 debut, GO! Magazine was only an idea.

The content team at Pega thought a magazine could work well as a natural extension of the brand’s successful Future of Work content campaign.

No one on the team knew magazine publishing, but that didn’t stop them.

Two weeks after they pitched the idea, GO! Magazine moved forward. Impressively, the team stayed on schedule and published the digital and print versions of the now award-winning magazine as planned.Continue Reading

What makes a content marketer great? You’ve probably asked this question as you thought about your career progression or wondered how to establish credibility to advance your content program.

We studied these six 2022 Content Marketer of the Year finalists (including the two winners) for clues.Continue Reading

Editor’s note: This week, we’re giving everyone a taste of Content Marketing World 2022 by featuring recaps of articles filled with insights from this year’s speakers.

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”

I recently learned that sentence is only the first part of the quote.

In the book where he coined the phrase, John C. Maxwell wrote: “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

I would add a complementary thought: A great team never gets out of the nightmare when the leaders haven’t communicated a big dream.Continue Reading

Editor’s note: This week, we’re giving everyone a taste of Content Marketing World 2022 by featuring recaps of articles filled with insights from this year’s speakers.

For years, marketers claimed victory when their page made it to the first organic listing or even a first page ranking on a Google search results page.

Now zero-click and other featured results deliver answers immediately to searchers and bury those organic links further down (or even off the first) page. What’s a content marketer to do?

Here’s what 10 experts presenting at Content Marketing World suggest.Continue Reading

Editor’s note: This week, we’re giving everyone a taste of Content Marketing World 2022 by featuring recaps of articles filled with insights from this year’s speakers.

On the Web3 spectrum, marketers’ interest usually falls on one end or the other.

For one group, you see the term and your eyes glaze over. For the other group, your eyes open wide and your mind starts racing.

No matter where on the Web3 spectrum you fall, take the next few minutes to read 10 Web3 thoughts from some of the experts speaking at Content Marketing World. You’ll see that they run the gamut of thought, too.Continue Reading