If you think new customer acquisition should be content marketing’s primary goal, you may want to think again. Read on for tips, examples, and more about how to make content and customer retention go hand in hand. Continue reading
Why You Should Doubt Headline Best Practices Advice (Except This)
Headline advice articles promise a magic formula for crafting titles that compel people to click through and read your content. But what happens when one set of “best” practices conflicts with another – and with what your data tells you? Here’s how to sort it out. Continue reading
How’d You Make That Flipping Awesome B2C Content for AARP?
AARP targets a huge audience – people in the United States over 50. But that doesn’t mean they don’t focus on niches too. The editor-in-chief of Sisters From AARP (and 2021 B2C Content Marketer of the Year) shares how they do it. Continue reading
Punch Up Your Writing With These 4 Power-Packed Tips
Wasted, wimpy verbs drag down your writing. CMI’s resident editing expert shows you how to root out these energy vampires and recharge your content with power-packed alternatives. Continue reading
3 Video Content Takeaways From Salesforce, TikTok, and Facebook
If you don’t have a video strategy, you’re late to the party. But you can learn from those blazing the trail. Salesforce, Facebook, and TikTok. Study these insights into their programs and advice before you make your next video content play. Continue reading
How Video Email Affects Your Audience (and More Content Examples)
New research into video email shows how it gets audiences’ synapses firing. A content collaboration taps into the drive to create. And a helping hand in the greeting card aisle turns into a savvy way to promote a new service. Continue reading
How To Adapt Your Content To Get Found in the Conversational Search Era
Optimizing for search once was as simple as sprinkling in keywords to increase the odds of the content popping higher in the result pages. Today, conversational search makes it more complicated, but it’s nothing you can’t handle. Continue reading
Try These Storytelling Structures To Build, Strengthen, or Repair Your Brand
A slick logo, tag line, and mission can make the claim your brand is the most distinctive. But if you don’t deliver on that, your audience will make their own conclusion. Nowhere does this play a bigger role today than in your content. Continue reading
Grey Goose Misses Bonus Free Throw With Uninterrupted Partnership
Grey Goose scores with a cool new video series with Lebron James’ Uninterrupted brand –then misses on bonus content opportunities. Plus, what to learn from Delta’s long-haul email and a calculator that shows the carbon footprint of digital marketing. Continue reading
Your White Paper Tanked: 3 Common Mistakes To Avoid
Without proper boundaries, your white paper ideas that go into development can end up being the same trite, ineffective content as so many others. Don’t make these mistakes if you want to deliver a high-performing white paper. Continue reading
