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Start With Content To Deliver a Successful Integrated Marketing Strategy [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Content teams face increasing demands to create. But what rarely comes after those requests is an interest in uniting for an integrated marketing strategy. Robert Rose shares why that’s a big mistake and how to change it.
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AI Tools Bug Out Because the Internet Can Never Forget [Rose-Colored Glasses]

You don’t need a perfect memory. But remember that the internet has one – and so do the AI content tools that depend on it. But what happens when they remember incorrect information that affects your content program?
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Writer Ends 10-Year Relationship With HARO To Keep Trusted Relationship With Audience

A content writer ends her 10-year relationship with HARO, once her go-to for sources. Her experience offers a lesson in vetting and verifying for all content marketers.
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Get Common First If You Want To Develop a Great Content Strategy [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Does your business have a good handle on what you mean by an e-book, white paper, video, etc.? What about a common understanding of thought leadership, advertising, and sales content? If not, your content strategy likely won’t work.
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Should the News Disrupt Your Content Plans? Here’s How To Decide

Unexpected bad news may not directly affect your brand, but it may affect your audience. That means you need to evaluate critically – and consider adjusting – your content marketing calendar. Here’s a quiz to assess the situation.
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Don’t Avoid Content Ops — Use This Helpful Framework Now

Content marketers who focus only on the output do so at their program’s peril. Content operations are essential. Here’s a framework to help make the challenge a little easier.
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2023 Content Marketing: Bring Your Strategy and Ops Into the Not-So-New Century [Rose-Colored Glasses]

It's happened. As predicted, content marketing is now just marketing. And that means it's time to  get serious about optimizing the value of ideas, experiences, and products in a marketplace of content. Here's how. 
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How To Scale Your Content Marketing Strategy To Improve Efficiency

Scaling your content strategy doesn’t require hiring more people to produce more stuff. It involves building systems to produce more effective content with fewer resources per unit. Here are five ideas to get started.
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B2C Marketers Treat Content Marketing as a Project; That’s a Mistake [New Research]

Today, we released the new B2C Content Marketing Benchmark, Budgets, and Trends – Insights for 2023. Discover the surprising and not-so-surprising results. And get Robert Rose’s big takeaway.
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Don’t Limit Audience Data to a Legal Concern or You’ll Miss the Big Opportunities [Rose-Colored Glasses]

For years, data privacy laws and strategies have filled the news cycle. But too many marketers haven’t appreciated the real potential of the first-party data evolution. Robert Rose shares the one industry that gets it right.
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Web3’s Marketing Value Is Function, Not Form [Rose-Colored Glasses]

A year ago, Robert Rose made this prediction about Web3 technologies: “Anybody who says they have it all figured out is likely wrong. No one knows.” So what does he know now and expect for Web3, NFTs, and the metaverse in 2023?
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How Marriott’s Inspired Content Helped Frustrated Travelers See a Better Normal

When its travel audience changed, Marriott got on board, too. Learn from its vice president of content how the global brand regenerated its content for a world coming out of a pandemic.