Not only will documented personas help you understand your audience’s needs, it can help surface the most relevant content ideas. Here’s how to build a portrait for a single version of truth for your content creators. Continue reading
How Content Influences the Purchasing Process: Tips for Content Marketers [Research]
Want to know how content affects the purchasing process? Gain insight from the latest research from SmartBrief and CMI exploring what type of content is most influential, how decision-makers perceive content from vendors, and more. Continue reading
Marketers: 14 Opportunities to Make Your Content Efforts More Scalable [New Research]
Though most marketers say their brand views content as an asset, only a minority have the people and processes in place, according to new research on content management and strategy from the Content Marketing Institute. Continue reading
Your Editorial Calendar is Not Your Content Marketing Strategy
This author wants to yell from the rooftops: An editorial calendar is not a content marketing strategy! It’s not an issue of semantics. It’s an issue that leads to a much bigger issue – less effective content marketing. Continue reading
Cover All the Bases With 21 Winning Content Marketing Tactics
It’s not always clear how to get the best performance out of the content marketing tactics on your roster. Let our 2017 Content Marketing Playbook be your guide to selecting the right players, and positioning them to your best brand advantage. Continue reading
Time for B2B Enterprise Marketers to Get Focused on Their Audience vs. Their Brands [New Research]
Too many B2B enterprise marketers create content focused on their brand, not their audience. That’s one of the key findings in our new research report, B2B Enterprise Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America. Continue reading
