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Do You Know Your Why? Your Content Marketing Success Depends on It

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?
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Data-Driven Creative: How to Use Twitter Data to Inform Your Marketing

Fred Graver, a four-time Emmy-winning television producer and former head of Twitter TV, uses social data to fuel his new creative series. Learn why he thinks Twitter is a go-to resource and how you can use it to inform your marketing.
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The Future Model for Content Marketing and Media Are Identical

Cosmo’s mission statement focuses on its audience and doesn’t mention what it sells. Exxon Mobile’s only talks about what it sells. Which mission connects to a lasting business content model for many brands – traditional media or not?
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What Are Your Customers Thinking? Search Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight

What would you give to read your customers’ minds? Read these tips from the self-proclaimed search guy for getting as close as possible to mind-reading by using resources hiding in plain sight.
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How to Persuade the Naysayers to Embrace New Marketing Technology

Don’t panic. Though the world of tech solutions for content marketers grows exponentially and your team may resist adopting new tools, there’s hope. Here are five steps to make onboarding a new tech tool easier and more effective.
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The Only 10 Ways to Make Money From Content Marketing

Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose reveal the Media Marketing Revenue Model, and give a glimpse into their upcoming book, Killing Marketing. It covers the 10 ways any organization that builds an audience from its content can generate revenue.
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Make Your Audience the Hero With a One-Sentence Agile User Story

Create one-sentence user stories for your content marketing program. They put audience needs at the center of content production, support efficient teamwork, and encourage interdepartmental communication. 
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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.
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Are Your Buyer Personas Ready to Take on the World?

Customers' concerns vary across regions and cultures. Yet, many companies don’t consider regionalization in their buyer personas and miss valuable business opportunities. Learn from three companies that recognized their persona mistakes.
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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.
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What to Do When Your Buyers’ Journey Isn’t Linear (Hint: It Never Is)

Your buyers may take a journey, but they rarely follow a straight-line path. So how can you reach them with the right content when they want it and where they’ll find it? Read on.
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Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future

How much time does your team spend discovering keywords; planning, personalizing, and automating content; and more?  Imagine if a machine performed the majority of the activities and a marketer’s role was to enhance rather than create.