Marcus Sheridan saved his pool company by using content as a sales tool. What would it take to make content the star of your brand’s sales? Knock down silos to create a culture of content. Marcus shares how to do that. Continue reading
A Content Success Story: How FedEx Operations Now Delivers a Better Customer Experience
Redundancies, overlaps, and lack of communication kept good content marketers from delivering a great content experience for FedEx customers. Drew Bailey wanted to change that. That’s why he is a Content Marketer of the Year nominee. Continue reading
Convert Your Most Vital (and Most Ignored) Audience Into Brand Ambassadors
Do you ignore your organization’s most important audience? Chances are, you put all your brand-building energy into external messages. But if company employees aren’t part of your content marketing strategy, you miss an opportunity. Continue reading
The Science of Productive Content Marketing Team Meetings
Look at your calendar for the coming week. How much empty space do you see? If it’s minimal, you could be unintentionally making it difficult for members of your content team to produce their best work. Try this four-step plan instead. Continue reading
6 Ways We Mess Up Collaborating With Content Marketing Freelancers
If you want to attract good freelancers, you’ve got to treat them right. Here are six ways to screw up your collaboration with freelance content creators and how to avoid them. Continue reading
The Age of the Wisdom Worker Is (Still) Just Ahead
Peter Drucker’s tomorrow has arrived. Today’s workplace needs storytellers. Meaning makers. Wisdom workers, they’re sometimes called. Are we there yet? Has this new class of worker rushed in to fill the need for wisdom? How about you? Continue reading
7 Things You Need to Have a Productive (and Happy) Content Marketing Team
Individual tricks are useful, but what does your team need to make sure they are working in the best possible way? Read on for a mix of tools and ideas to help your team focus on creation, not process. Continue reading
Content Marketing Industry: What’s Happening in Hiring [Research]
Hiring and retaining talent is an ongoing struggle. Learn what the research shows about content marketing hiring – from the biggest geographic markets to role-specific salaries, and from desired skill sets to retention activities. Continue reading
Bingeable Content: How to Move Buyers Through Your Sales Cycle Faster
What if you delivered content like Netflix? Enticing prospective customers with content they can binge on? If you did, you’d never waste another click to a dead-end content asset. You’ll keep people hooked after they click. Here’s how. Continue reading
How to Stop Wasting Time on the Wrong Content
Ever spent weeks crafting a big piece of content that generated almost no response? You could have avoided that disheartening flop if you didn’t put all your eggs into the big content basket – and released minimum viable content instead. Continue reading
