How to Stop Wasting Time on the Wrong Content
June 22, 2017
Andrea Fryrear
Ever spent weeks crafting a big piece of content that generated almost no response? You could have avoided that disheartening flop if you didn’t put all your eggs into the big content basket – and released minimum viable content instead.
Why a Good Content Audit Is Your Business’s Best Friend
June 15, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
Yes, a content audit can seem like an overwhelming task, but it is essential to your job as a marketer. Learn what, why, how, and more about how to execute a usable content audit that will make an immediate impact on your marketing.
Agile Practices: How to Avoid Mistakes Our Marketing Team Made
June 8, 2017
Eva Jackson
A marketing team practicing Agile project management made so many mistakes that half of them locked themselves in a room and didn’t leave until they addressed significant shortcomings in their approach. Here’s what they learned.
What Are Your Customers Thinking? Search Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
June 1, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
What would you give to read your customers’ minds? Read these tips from the self-proclaimed search guy for getting as close as possible to mind-reading by using resources hiding in plain sight.
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.
Make Your Audience the Hero With a One-Sentence Agile User Story
May 11, 2017
Andrea Fryrear
Create one-sentence user stories for your content marketing program. They put audience needs at the center of content production, support efficient teamwork, and encourage interdepartmental communication.
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.
Are Your Buyer Personas Ready to Take on the World?
April 27, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
Customers' concerns vary across regions and cultures. Yet, many companies don’t consider regionalization in their buyer personas and miss valuable business opportunities. Learn from three companies that recognized their persona mistakes.
30 Habits of Highly Productive Content Teams [Infographic]
April 20, 2017
Marcia Riefer Johnston
What if you could get work-free nights and weekends back? Would you take the necessary steps? Try these 30 workflow tips and see what it’s like to turn your computer off at 5:30 p.m. and keep it off until 8 a.m. the next day.
What to Do When Your Buyers’ Journey Isn’t Linear (Hint: It Never Is)
April 17, 2017
Ann Gynn
Your buyers may take a journey, but they rarely follow a straight-line path. So how can you reach them with the right content when they want it and where they’ll find it? Read on.
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.
The Seductive Power of the Dark Side [Rented Land]
April 25, 2016
Joe Pulizzi
Is your brand a renter? Do you publish your content on someone else’s platform like Facebook, Medium, LinkedIn? Or are you an owner? Does your content live on your property? Do you own your audience and communicate with them directly?
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