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Visionary Content May Not Be Popular (Yet), But It’s Your Secret Edge

Visionary Content May Not Be Popular (Yet), But It’s Your Secret Edge

No, Galinda, it’s not all about popular. If you create content only on currently hot topics, you may be forgotten when everyone moves on. Instead, balance work that helps people today with visionary content that guides your audience to a future they want.
Why Culture Is Key to Brand Marketing’s Influence

Why Culture Is Key to Brand Marketing’s Influence

Why is culture a powerful force in marketing? Discover how to influence behavior and cultivate community by authentically engaging with culture moments. Glean inspiration from Budweiser's iconic "Wassup?" campaign and Beyoncé's BeyHive.
1-Page Content Marketing Strategy

How To Write a 1-Page Content Marketing Strategy in a Few Hours

Develop a content marketing strategy in one page. It can ensure your team and business leaders will actually read it and lead in the same direction. Get started with these seven easy steps.
Should You Prioritize Speed or Agility? (No, They Aren’t the Same)

Should You Prioritize Speed or Agility? (No, They Aren’t the Same)

Which group of adjectives best describe your preferred marketing goals for the year: Innovative, impactful, and sustainable, or faster, cheaper, and relentless? Here’s how to move with intention toward the better choice.
5 Steps To Make “Work Smart and Reinvent Things” Your 2025 Marketing Motto

5 Steps To Make ‘Work Smart and Reinvent Things’ Your 2025 Marketing Motto

It happens at the end of every year: Many content and marketing projects lie unfinished or uncertain. Instead of stressing out, try these five steps to use this time to reflect, prepare, and set up for 2025. Here’s how.
57+ Content Marketing Statistics To Help You Succeed in 2025

57+ Content Marketing Statistics To Help You Succeed in 2025

Input from you and your peers in CMI’s surveys generated a lot of numbers. We curated the top stats from the 2024 B2B content marketing research, career outlook, and niche surveys of marketers, demand-gen marketers, and bloggers.
How To Use Friction To Build Better B2B Customers

How To Use Friction To Build Better B2B Customers

Isn’t the point of marketing to remove friction from the buyer’s journey? Not for highly customizable or complex purchases. Slowing the customer down gives you time to guide them to options and add-ons that suit them best. Here’s how.
A pair of rose-colored glasses sits above the headline Start With Your Customers' Why. The words Your Customers' are underlined appear in red type to indicate that they're revisions to the main phrase (Start With Why) in black type.

We’ve Gotten ‘Start With Why’ Wrong in Content. Here’s How to Fix It

Knowing your why may motivate you to reach your goals. But your brand’s why won’t motivate your customers — or differentiate your content, product, or services — until you connect it to their why. This step-by-step process will help.
Murder! Mystery! Marketing! How Caspian Studios Brought Fiction to B2B Content

Murder! Mystery! Marketing! How Caspian Studios Brought Fiction to B2B Content

A-list actors. A who-dun-it narrative. More twists than an M. Night Shyamalan plot. No, it’s not the latest box-office blockbuster. It’s a B2B podcast. Yes, really. Here’s the story of how this award-winning project came to be.
Semrush’s New Acquisition Resurrects Value of Owned Media Strategy

Semrush’s Acquisition Reinforces the Value of Owned Media

Semrush made a bold move by acquiring Third Door Media — home to Search Engine Land, MarTech, and more. With built-in events and valuable audiences, Semrush sees a future in owned media. Will others follow?
How Salesforce Blazed Award-Winning Content Trail for Sales Pros

How Salesforce Blazed Award-Winning Content Trail for Sales Pros

Ever wonder how Salesforce keeps coming up with so many content ideas that make a measurable impact on the company’s business? The story behind the company’s latest award winner reveals its winning roadmap.
3 Disruptions That Will Shape Your Content and Marketing Strategy in 2025

3 Disruptions That Will Shape Your Content and Marketing Strategy in 2025

It’s time to rewrite your B2B content and marketing playbook for 2025. These three trends explain what will (and won’t) move audiences and customers next year.