What you sell often is primary to the company mission, and in turn, to your content marketing mission. That results in self-serving content that does nothing for the audience and wastes brand resources. What if you focused on the why? Continue reading
101+ Key Performance Indicators – Pick the Best
If you’re not actively measuring your KPI, you’re missing opportunities to improve your business’s bottom line. Carefully selected KPIs also can be a useful reporting metric for marketers wanting to strengthen support for their work. Continue reading
2017 Mid-Year Content Marketing Checkup
CMI’s Joe Pulizzi offers 18 items to consider in a mid-year checkup of your content marketing program – from getting rid of your writers (you’ll have to read it to understand) to sending a journalist to cover your next industry event. Continue reading
Pharmaceutical Content Marketing: How to Cure What Ails You
Do you have trouble communicating the benefits your business provides in terms that the government will allow and that consumers can relate to? Content marketing can help you address these issues and strike a healthy balance. Continue reading
7 Ways to Stop Flailing with Your Content Marketing in 2017
To grow as marketers – and to move the business forward with content – we can benefit from thinking beyond the usual platitudes and ideas. Consider these seven ways to stop flailing.
Your Editorial Calendar is Not Your Content Marketing Strategy
This author wants to yell from the rooftops: An editorial calendar is not a content marketing strategy! It’s not an issue of semantics. It’s an issue that leads to a much bigger issue – less effective content marketing. Continue reading
Account-Based Marketing: What Content Marketers Need to Know
Webinar day arrived. Six people attended. A content marketing disaster. Yet, that webinar campaign was the most effective one to influence the deals that got done. How? Account-based marketing. CMWorld presenter Joe Chernov explains. Continue reading
2 Funnels Are Necessary for Content Marketing
Following a purchase funnel to shape your content marketing goals sets you up for limited success. Not all content subscribers will become customers. That’s why you need to create and add a content marketing funnel to your program. Continue reading
Simplify Your Content Marketing Strategy with a One-Page Plan
A content marketing program is more likely to succeed when it has a documented marketing strategy. Don’t wait another minute. Create a comprehensive one-page content marketing strategy today. Here’s how.
Editorial Calendar Tools and Templates
The editorial calendar is one tool no content marketer should be without. Follow these guidelines to build one from scratch – or take your current editorial calendar to the next level.
