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How To Manage Leaders Out of Your Content Approval Process [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Managing up means telling hard truths to leadership. If executive input gets in the way of successful content marketing, you can either accept it or (gracefully) confront it. Robert Rose offers advice for making either option work.
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If You Want To Create Exceptional Content, Limit Your Options

Here’s the secret to doing more with less: Model your operations after Raising Cane’s instead of McDonalds. Try this step-by-step process to create a limited content menu specially curated to feed stakeholder and audience appetites (and boost team productivity along the way).
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How Strategic Content Planning Helps You Say Yes – and No

A strategic planning process has nothing to do with creating a strategy, but it has everything to do with supporting it. Most content teams skip that step – and find they struggle to prioritize and grow. Here’s how to avoid (or correct) that outcome.
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How Competitor Analysis Helps You Create Landing Pages That Convert

How do you create a landing page that beats your competitors’? Look at what they’re doing – after all, that’s what buyers do. Here’s how to do a competitor landing page analysis.
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Which Matters More: Content Skills or Subject Matter Expertise? [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Should you hire for content skills or subject matter knowledge? It’s an age-old content strategy question. Robert Rose shares the answer – and a process to make it work.
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5 Practical Ways To Prevent Burnout In High-Performing Content Teams

Speed bumps in your content marketing process create bigger hurdles for your content marketing team. What can you do to minimize or even prevent them so things run smoothly? Here’s some advice.
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6 Content Helpers That Encourage People To Read, Watch, or Listen

You work hard on content – but your audience shouldn’t. Try these tools, tips, and tactics to make your content experience so pleasant that audiences stay with you longer and get more from each visit.
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How To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Content for Improved Search Results

The reduce, reuse, recycle model of waste management can be a great strategy search-focused content. It can help snip and prune the content weighing down your content’s search engine results.
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Take Content Beyond the Buyer's Journey by Playing Nice [11 Expert Tips]

Visitors, prospects, buyers, and customers all need content. And content marketers are often asked to manage it all. If you’re one of them, you’re going to need allies. Here’s how to make friends and influence sales, customer service, and get other teams to join you.
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Writing Is Writing, Right? Not If You Want To Keep Your Content Creation Team [Rose-Colored Glasses]

If you want to acquire and keep great content talent (and who doesn’t?), make sure you get the distinction between constructing and creating. Both are important – but only one gets people excited to keep “making the donuts” every day.
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13 Expert Tips for Choosing Tech That Makes Your Content Strategy Work

The sheer number of martech options means there's probably something that fits your content strategy needs. But how do you find the best fit among thousands of options – and then get your teams to use it? Try these tips from experts presenting at the upcoming ContentTECH Summit.
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4 Things Every Content Marketing Team Needs (Surprise! They’re Not Tools)

It’s tempting to think technology can solve all content marketing woes. But the best tech in the world won’t make you more successful – unless you get these systems, processes, and resources in place first. Here’s how.