Creative Content: 3 Behaviors Driving Marketers
May 29, 2017
Jay Acunzo
Most creative content marketers approach work much like most of us approach a bowl of ice cream: They make the process the point, not the end results. Now, let’s go further to discover the behaviors behind creative content marketers.
How to Avoid Collaborative Overload Within Your Content Team
May 26, 2017
Deborah Holstein
Is your creative team sick of the distractions that come when everybody is expected to contribute to a project? Collaboration done poorly leaves little time for critical thinking. These simple tips can help create quality collaboration.
Content Library: 3 Steps to Manage Yours Like a Librarian
May 25, 2017
Jake Athey
We marketers are practically drowning in content, and librarians are experts at making content organized and findable. Make your content library useful – follow these three principles to manage your content like a librarian.
New Tech Friends on the Marketing Block
May 18, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
Tackling sophisticated challenges with our content requires assistance from technical specialists. The three amigos of content marketing – content strategists, content engineers, and data scientists – can provide that power boost.
Use This Simple (& Fun) Tool to Design Your Content Marketing Message Architecture
May 4, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
You wouldn’t build a house without a floor plan. You shouldn’t create content without a message architecture. The tool helps you bring your organization’s messaging into alignment. Here’s a fun way to create a blueprint for your content.
The Content Assembly Line is Broken
April 25, 2017
Doug Kessler
Our own little content marketing industrial revolution is happening. We’ve moved the content creation process from the craft workshop to the high-volume assembly line. But we shouldn’t be treating content like a Ford Focus.
3 Best Practices to Nurture a Content Writer Into an Industry Expert
April 14, 2017
Joe Griffin
The nurturing process for content writers has far less to do with helping them become better writers and more to do with teaching them how to learn a new landscape quickly and effectively. Start with these three best practices.
Screwed Up Priorities? 5 Reasons You Aren’t Working on the Right Content Projects
April 10, 2017
Marcus Varner
If you’re not as victorious as you’d like with your content marketing efforts – or you’re struggling to distinguish if you’re even working on the right content or not – it could come down to these five simple prioritization problems.
The Challenges Facing Tomorrow’s Marketer: 3 Biggest Themes From Intelligent Content Conference
April 6, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
Zoom out to identify three main challenges that emerged at the Intelligent Content Conference. These are the things that you, tomorrow’s marketer, need to do to take your career and our profession to the next level.
Align Your Messaging With This Simple Tool
January 28, 2016
Marcia Riefer Johnston
What’s your company's most distinctive trait? What’s the main reason people should do business with your company? Do you know? Does your company? Build a message architecture to align your organization’s content with this simple tool.
Content Operations
November 1, 2014
David Anthony
Learn how to plan content strategically, develop efficient workflows and processes, implement essential technologies and automation tools, and structure your teams for better collaboration, creativity, and marketing performance.
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