Fast, Broken, and Stuck? Your Content Team Needs Processes To Break
March 3, 2025
Robert Rose
Let’s hear it for the unsung heroes of marketing — the people who develop the processes and standards. Without them, you’ll struggle to spot your content superstars. Here’s why they’re a crucial foil to innovators who buck their systems.
What the OpenAI Ad Says About Created and Constructed Content in the AI Era
February 18, 2025
Robert Rose
If you want to nurture great content talent, let them focus on creating — not just constructing content (with or without an AI assistant). OpenAI did it. Here’s how you can, too.
What Is a Content Marketer, Anyway?
January 8, 2025
Ann Gynn
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.
Why You Need People To Manage the Meaning of AI Content
November 5, 2024
Robert Rose
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
October 15, 2024
Robert Rose
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.
The Marketing Career Path Is Crumbling. What Comes Next?
October 1, 2024
Robert Rose
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.
Don’t Let AI Headlines Steer Your Marketing Career the Wrong Way
September 20, 2024
Content Marketing Institute Team
Headlines seemingly abound about generative AI’s impact on the careers of marketers and media creators. But what’s a marketer to do? Go behind the headlines to find the real story and consider this advice as you plan for 2025.
What It Takes To Build a Unified Content Experience
August 22, 2024
Jodi Harris
Building a consistent content experience across all possible touch points (social, website, chat, etc.) takes research, empathy, and collaboration across internal teams. It’s not easy, but the results are worth it. Here’s how to start.
What To Do When the Optimal Strategy Isn’t Optimal
August 20, 2024
Robert Rose
There’s nothing better than an ambitious content or marketing strategy to inspire teams to aim high — except for the realistic version you can actually implement. Try this process to bring your so-called optimal plans back to earth.
How To Create User Stories That End Frustrating Conversations About Marketing
August 5, 2024
Dennis Shiao
A CEO and a data scientist have a conversation about generative AI in marketing. Both parties leave frustrated. But the friction could have been dissipated if they had created user stories that got everybody on the same page.
23+ Roles You Might Need on Your Content Marketing Team
August 1, 2024
Ann Gynn
Great news! The 2025 budget is bigger, and you can add a new role on your content and marketing team. Do you go for a position related to analysis, operations, creation, or something else? Here are two dozen options to contemplate.
How To Balance Marketing Specialists and Generalists
July 30, 2024
Robert Rose
Do you need more marketers or more analysts, strategists, and other specialists? Most teams would vote for both. Try this approach to balance your need for deep expertise and the agility and stability content generalists provide.
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