Author: Kim Moutsos
Kim Moutsos leads the talented content team at the Content Marketing Institute, where she is vice president of editorial. Having worked in content marketing for enterprises and startups for more than 20 years, Kim enjoys exchanging ideas and lessons learned with other content marketing practitioners. You can follow her on Twitter at @KMoutsos or connect on LinkedIn.
By kmoutsos published
June 30, 2021
GRAND REOPENING: JUNE 2021
By kmoutsos published
June 17, 2021
25+ Expert Takeaways About Content Strategy, Experiences, Tech, Analytics, SEO, and More
How do you summarize the takeaways from a conference packed with great ideas and advice?
That’s a familiar challenge for every conference attendee who’s struggled to share their experience and learnings with managers and colleagues who couldn’t attend. It’s hard enough to boil down all the notes you took, tweets you shared, and pictures you snapped. But what about all the sessions you couldn’t watch because you can’t be everywhere at once?Continue Reading
By kmoutsos published
May 27, 2021
6 Content Calendar Strategies That Work Better Than Waiting for Inspiration
Updated May 27, 2021
You have a documented content marketing strategy. You’ve outlined your quarterly plan, aligning your messages and goals with demand gen, sales, customer success, and other teams. But you still have slots to fill in your editorial calendar.
Most marketers have experienced this moment. You generally know what you need to produce, but specific story ideas seem just out of reach.
When this happens, you have two choices: Wait for inspiration to strike or develop a system to find stellar ideas to fill the calendar.
This post is not for those who choose to hold out for a flash of creative inspiration. It’s for anyone ready to do the dirty work of finding hidden content opportunities to shape and polish into something brilliant.Continue Reading
By kmoutsos published
May 3, 2021
6 Steps to Help You Decide Whether to Optimize Your Failed Content
Updated May 3, 2021
So your content failed. You’re not alone. In between those pieces that clearly hit the mark, we’ve all published a few – or more than a few – that missed.
There’s plenty of advice on content optimization techniques to apply to articles that are already pretty good. And there’s even more on how to reuse, republish, or repurpose your highest-performing content. It’s a sure-win tactic to include in your content marketing strategy, we’ve run many articles about how to do it.Continue Reading
By kmoutsos published
April 15, 2021
How to Set Content Marketing Goals That Matter to Business Leaders
Updated April 15, 2021
Have you ever heard a sales leader or business exec disparage content marketing as “arts and crafts” or wonder about its business value? You aren’t the first.
The myth that content marketing is some nebulous, feel-good, unmeasured thing gets told all too often.
But why?
The business purpose of content marketing is literally written into its definition:
Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience – and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.
By kmoutsos published
December 15, 2020
Should Your Brand Take a Stand? Luvvie Ajayi Jones Offers Useful Advice
Has there ever been a year in which marketers felt so compelled to respond to headlines – and so conflicted about whether and how to speak up? 2020 may have been extra intense, but the pressure on brands to take a stand won’t disappear in 2021.
Self-described “professional troublemaker” Luvvie Ajayi Jones offered useful advice for navigating these impulses in her keynote presentation, Speaking Truth to Power, at Content Marketing World 2020.Continue Reading
By kmoutsos published
December 9, 2020
How Marriott, NerdWallet, and Adobe Measure Content Marketing
There’s no shortage of advice about how to measure content success. CMI has published plenty of it. Yet every year, we hear from content marketers struggling to understand the impact of their content marketing.
One stumbling block may be applying general advice to a living, changing, content program. No one-size-fits-all solution exists. Every team must tailor its measurement to its business goals and, often, to how well each piece of content contributes to the content marketing mission.
By kmoutsos published
September 24, 2020
2020 B2C Content Marketer of Year Finalists Empower Audiences
In an extraordinary year, extraordinary content marketers rose to the occasion. They demonstrated what’s possible, moved us to action, and taught us how to protect ourselves. Here are one group and two individuals who are at the top of the game – the 2020 B2C Content Marketer of the Year finalists.
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By kmoutsos published
September 23, 2020
Go Behind the Scenes With 3 Finalists for B2B Content Marketer of the Year
Great ideas can be found anywhere – and so can great B2B content marketers. They work for big companies, small companies, small corners of big companies. They lead not-so-small teams at not-so-big companies and in every set of circumstances imaginable.
It’s not the budget or the scale or the title that makes a B2B content marketer great – it’s the ability to lead people (internal teams, audiences, and customers) out of the status quo, show them how things can be better, and help them take action to make it so.
By kmoutsos published
August 4, 2020
Write Smarter and Faster With Tips From These Top 5 Posts
Someone set the strategy. The content is scheduled. The brief arrived. Now comes the “fun” part – creating something.
I put fun in quotation marks because every content creator recognizes the struggle to find the right word, craft the right phrase, or just get the darn thing done.
I know this from long experience. And I infer that this experience is nearly universal from watching what visitors read on the CMI blog.
