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27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks

Why would one intentionally create something utterly useless for their organization or their audience? Yet, a lot of content sucks. We’ve all seen (and sometimes created) it. Read on for a splash of cold water to wake up your content.
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6 Mistakes Ruining Your Charts and Infographics

Want tips guaranteed to result in bad charts? Probably not. Yet sometimes you can learn best from things gone wrong. Discover six ways data visualization mistakes confuse, bore, and bother your audiences­ – from the guy who wrote the book on it.
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Video Storytelling Secrets From an Award-Winning Series

Great video storytelling doesn't require a great budget. But it does require planning, well-selected subjects, and a willingness to adapt. Discover the 10 must-dos from the creators of Visa's award-winning Solo Traveller series.
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10 Ways to Make Videos Your Customers Can’t Resist

Ever lose track of time watching videos online? What makes them so hard to resist? TechSmith’s learning and video ambassador knows. Here are 10 ways he suggests to make your videos as engaging as possible.
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CCO Opens the Idea Garage for Inspiring B2B and B2C Content Marketing Examples

B2B and B2C brands delight their audiences with relevant, entertaining, or unique content opportunities, from Instagram to YouTube to media partnerships. Get inspired by 15 brands doing just that as shared in CCO’s Idea Garage in 2017.
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How to Robot-Proof Your Job as a Content Creator

Billions of AI-created pieces of content are published yearly. Are human content creators in danger of losing their jobs? Not quite. Despite the growth in AI writing capabilities, the human content writer is needed more than ever.
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Stock 2.0: What Savvy Marketers Need to Know About the Changing Rules of Visual Content

Perfectly posed stock photos won’t cut it anymore. Here’s what’s changed in the world of visual content and how your content strategy needs to evolve to keep up.
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Education as a Marketing Strategy: 8 Brands Doing Online Classes and More

Marketers often create and distribute educational content through a blog, white paper or how-to video. However, some brands develop full-fledged online and in-person classes and curricula. Look at what eight diverse brands are doing.
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Pre-Event Content: 5 Tips for Creating Excitement (and a Bit of FOMO)

Marketers often center campaigns on content, but unfortunately too many marketers of events think about content too late. Learn how to create high-quality and engaging pre-event content with these five tips and examples.
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How to Develop and Grow a Successful Podcast

How can a brand’s podcast lead to nearly 2 million downloads with listeners in 200 countries and generate about $500,000 in direct revenue in four years? Joe Pulizzi goes step by step into how This Old Marketing was created.
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The Hub-and-Spoke Method of Guest Posting: Do More With Less Effort

Do you use the hub-and-spoke model for your guest blogging strategy? Learn how this method can free up your time while you still create relevant, effective guest blog posts that organically – and deservedly – link to your own site.
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How Inspiring Brands Give Thanks on Social Media

Isn't it time you thanked those who make your business successes possible? From grand gestures of goodwill to simple social shout-outs, here are just a few of the ways you can use content to show gratitude to your audience.