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What Is a Content Marketer, Anyway?

What Is a Content Marketer, Anyway?

Does your title accurately describe your role? Has the ubiquity of “content creator” in the creator economy made things problematic? Explore the identity crisis for content marketers, for job seekers, employers, and the employed.
The 411 on Data Cleaning, Modeling, and Governance for Marketers

The 411 on Data Cleaning, Modeling, and Governance for Marketers

You can’t tap into the real value of your data if it isn’t clean. Worse, you could steer your efforts in the wrong direction. That’s why you need to learn the basics of data modeling, cleaning, governance, and observability.
How To Battle Organic Search Analytics in the AI Era

How To Battle Organic Search Analytics in the AI Era

Organic search traffic has never been an easy metric to demystify. AI’s growing role and audiences’ changing search behavior make it even harder. Here’s how one organization is attacking the data and winning.
How To Optimize Content Organization for 2025: Think Context, Not Hierarchy

How To Optimize Content Organization for 2025: Think Context, Not Hierarchy

Your brand's content should be more than an information resource. It should be a path to further exploration and “best next” experiences. To achieve that goal, try organizing your content based on intent, authority, internal context, and external context. Here's how.
Why You Need People To Manage the Meaning of AI Content

Why You Need People To Manage the Meaning of AI Content

If generative AI is ever to be more than a distracting novelty, you may need more people on your team, not fewer. Here’s why (and which skills they’ll need).
Why You Have To Care Enough To Send the Very Best in B2B Marketing

Why You Have To Care Enough To Send the Very Best in B2B Marketing

B2B marketing is more than an intellectual puzzle to solve. To succeed, you have to know and care about the people you’re creating marketing for — and also the products and services your brand creates. Here’s why.
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10+ Overlooked Tools To Improve Your MarTech Stack

Are you happy with the content and marketing tools your organization uses? Or does it feel like something’s missing? If so, you’ll probably find it on this list of overlooked martech tools (and resources) that Content Marketing World speakers recommend.
Why You Should Plan Your 2025 Content Strategy Before Buying New Technology

Why You Should Plan Your 2025 Content Strategy Before Buying New Technology

Don't let the allure (or dread) of new tools distract you from planning a rock-solid strategy focused on the content experiences throughout the buyer journeys. Then, choose the tech to support it. Robert Rose explains how.
The Marketing Career Path Is Crumbling. What Comes Next?

The Marketing Career Path Is Crumbling. What Comes Next?

Do you see a clear path for advancement at your company? Do your teammates and direct reports? If not, expect to lose your best talent. But you can help shape the modern marketing career ladder. Robert Rose explains.
Go Behind the Scenes of Award-Winning Conversationally Website With the B2C Content Marketer of the Year

Go Behind the Scenes of Award-Winning Conversationally Website With the B2C Content Marketer of the Year

B2C Content Marketer of the Year Jim Bentubo led a team to tell a new corporate blog story at Ally Financial — Conversationally. The data-driven content hub drew 4 million page views in one year and delivers big to the bottom line.
Isn’t It Obvious? How To Make Content More Useful for Sales

Isn’t It Obvious? How To Make Content More Useful for Sales

The content or marketing team’s job isn’t over once a piece of content goes live. To get the most value, you’ve got to teach your sales teams how (and when) to use it. Here’s how to enable your sales team to be your best distribution partner.
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Map Your Strategic Path to Content Success

Navigating a complex content marketing landscape becomes easier when you have a strategically aligned roadmap to guide your efforts. Here’s what you need to build one.