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3 Ways You Sabotage Your Content Tech Search

Why do we as content marketers struggle to get the right technology in place? It’s not a lack of options. Explore three ways you make the tech-selection process harder (and how to fix it).
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Want to Prove Content’s Success? Stop Measuring It

The business value of content marketing cannot be measured by standard content metrics (views, time on page, shares, etc.) Value lies in the behavior change of the audience affected by the content. How can you measure real value?
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How Content Marketing Became One Brand’s Trusted, Unified Source

Looking beyond building data for the human stories at a commercial real estate company offers many lessons for all content marketers. And it’s what helped JLL’s Glenn LaFollette earn a Content Marketer of the Year nomination.
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Are You Really Smart About How AI Works in Marketing?

What are the most interesting, unusual, and worthwhile applications of AI in marketing? Discover how machine learning and predictive analytics are reshaping the marketing landscape and what new tools marketers are piloting.
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Why You May Want to Rethink Data, Privacy, and Content

No matter how diligent you’ve been with GDPR compliance, the full implications of digital data collection, usage, and protection go much deeper than you may think. Consider these examples – and the lessons they hold for content marketers.
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How to Unite Brand Storytelling and Marketing Tech

Marketers didn’t invent the tech for bots, mobile apps, and productivity tools, but they can entice their audiences to use them. Welcome to the sweet spot of content and tech, a hybrid embraced by forward-thinking marketers.
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How Tech Debt Is Bankrupting Content Marketing

Three months shy of its 5th birthday, the company’s digital magazine was killed. The C-suite underestimated the cost of tech upgrades. Content marketing was the victim. Yes, technical debt is now one of your biggest threats.
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5 Sources to Inspire Unlimited Content Ideas

Not all ideas worthy of becoming content find us. Most of the time we must find them. Here are five sources that can inspire ideas during any given year.
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It’s Not About the Tea: How to Make Buyer Personas That Really Satisfy

CMO Sarah Cunningham likes to drink Earl Grey in the morning. And thus, a useless buyer persona filled with frivolous detail begins. If you want useful buyer personas, make sure they include this one essential component.
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4 Paths to Better Content Management and Strategy [New Research]

Struggling to manage content in a responsive, automated, scalable way? You’re not alone. In our newly released Content Management & Strategy Survey, 72% of respondents say they’re challenged too. Here are some ideas to change that.
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Content Tech Overload? 3 Questions to Ask Before You Buy

Do you have a strategy for building your content-tech stack? You should. Start with these three questions to get more use of your tech, make it last longer, and see if you really need that shiny new thing.
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How Content Can Create a Self-Sustaining Customer Referral Engine

Don’t be tempted to celebrate wins in your conventional sales and marketing funnels. Those “conversions” should only be the start. What you do next matters more – and that next step should be to build super users.