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Content marketing glossary: 57+ terms you should know

57+ Words Every Content Marketer Should Know [Glossary]

Do your content marketing peers use terms that aren’t familiar to you? Do you know the difference between a content marketing strategy, content strategy, and content mission? Read on and bookmark this go-to glossary.
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Helpful Advice To Find a New Job in Marketing and Content

On the hunt for a new job in content and marketing? You know the drill. Create compelling content that attracts a target audience. But that’s not so easy to do. Follow this advice to make it a little easier.
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50+ Blogs, Newsletters, Podcasts, and Video Channels Favored by Marketers

You’re busy enough doing marketing. You don’t have time to search for content that can help. So here are over 50 favorite blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and YouTube channels recommended by your content and marketing peers.
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Why and How To Add Mentorship to Your Content Career Plan

Professional interest in mentoring is on the rise, for good reason. Mentorship holds short- and long-term benefits for both mentor and mentee, as these stories from content marketers in both roles show.
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How To Bring Personality to Your Content and Personas

Developing content requires you to think about the audience. You use demographic data. But have you considered the personality of your audience? Here's how exploring personality types can enhance your marketing strategy.
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For Better Content Leadership, Don’t Blame – Try Cultivating Instead

Don’t sabotage your year by blaming yourself or your team for something that isn’t working well or punishing everybody with an “improvement” plan. Instead, take this less-traveled path to success.
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Beyond Resolutions: What’s Your Word for 2024?

Selecting a word for 2024 can work better than making resolutions. The word becomes a theme or intention rather than a set of rules you will likely break. Here’s an option for marketers in 2024.
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’Twas the Night Before Break (2023 Edition)

Ghosts from marketers’ past and present pop up again and disrupt the magic until an authentic guy appears in this Content Marketing Institute poetic tradition.
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10 Content Marketing Articles Readers (Like You) Loved This Year

Short on time? Here’s a cheat sheet for the 10 most popular articles for the Content Marketing Institute audience. You’ll see something for everyone to improve their content marketing programs, from trends to evergreen fundamentals.
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47+ Book Recommendations Create the Ultimate Reading List for Content Marketers

Choose among the dozens of book recommendations to fill your shelves or add some to the gift list for your team or other favorite marketers. They tackle expected and surprising topics, from writing and AI to disruption, science, and more.
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3 Questions About AI in Content: What? So What? Now What?

Getting your arms around the disruptions of generative AI presents an extreme challenge. A 20-year-old framework for self-reflection may help. Ask these three questions in proper succession.
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Do You Love Your Content Marketing Job (and Does It Matter)?

You should equate your job with your passion. If that’s not possible, you must direct your passion into a side hustle vocation that can become your career. But that thinking can derail you from doing what you love to do.