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How to Know What Content Drives Traffic

Most content fails to generate significant web traffic. And many content marketers fail in knowing what pieces of content perform well and which don’t. It requires precise analytics, but it’s not too difficult. Get started today.

Social Listening Tools to Strengthen Your Content Marketing

When you brainstorm your content for 2015, ask: Is this the kind of content that would make my audience tick? Don’t know the answer? It’s time to use your ears, and start social listening. Discover some tools to get you started today.
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The Basics of Intelligent Content

How do you unlock the potential of your content? Make it intelligent! Here's how.

Why Your Content Is Sabotaging Your Lead Generation

Lead-generation campaigns typically fail when brands use content originally intended for another purpose instead of providing new content that their targeted audience actually wants. Discover how to create successful lead-gen content.

This Week in Content Marketing: Captain Obvious - Marketers Are Wasting Money on Social

In this episode, Joe and Robert discuss Time magazine’s deal with Outbrain, Shell’s native ad with The New York Times and more. Raves include a comedic video related to content marketing and Aussie coverage of CMI's benchmark survey.

How to Tell a Compelling B2B Story Using Comics

Renewed interest comic books can mean good things for your B2B content marketing: You can stand out when you tell compelling stories using this visual medium. Discover the three things every comic must have to engage readers.

A Cornucopia of Content Marketing Inspiration

To show our thanks for the resources that help us stay informed, the CMI team shares a list of those we rely on to support our content marketing (and personal) missions. We couldn’t do our jobs without these influencers and resources.

25 Content Marketing Truths

Two things I learned from my grandpa: Helping others is everything and amazing storytelling gets you most places in life. That’s how I feel about content marketing. So thanks to organizations that believe and practice these 25 truths.

6 Ways to Measure Webinar ROI

Content marketers must change the narrative regarding their webinar programs’ effectiveness by tracking and reporting relevant KPIs. Learn how these six categories, from participation to the closed deal, can help measure webinar ROI.

SEO Plan: Ultimate 15-Step Checklist

SEO should be a lynchpin in any content marketing plan; but with search engines updating algorithms so frequently, how can a mortal content marketer keep up? Check out this SEO checklist to make sure you’re set up for success.

8 Metrics to Conquer a Content Marketer's Fear of Measurement

With so many metrics for content marketing and even more tools to measure them, how do you know what to do? This framework covers eight types of metrics. It’s broken down by channel, so you can get specific examples of each metric.

This Week in Content Marketing: Facebook Continues To Mess with Your Content

In this episode, Joe and Robert go deep into more Facebook algorithm changes. Will all your promo content go bye bye? Plus, Marriott’s move to a full-blown media company, two raves (including one for a new print publication) and more.