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SMS Text Marketing? You Bet

Should text messaging be part of your content marketing strategy? You should at least think about it. Learn 13 reasons why SMS can be an effective distribution tool and caveats on the pitfalls.
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Don’t Fear Chatbots If You Have a Rich Content Strategy

Don’t fall into the two big chatbot traps – wait to see or haphazard implementation. Look to your underlying content strategy. If you’ve invested in structurally rich content, you’re likely more chatbot-ready than you realize.
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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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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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‘Stay Scrappy’ and More Wisdom on Creativity From a Pixar Animator

Want to spark innovation, influence perceptions, and inspire people to believe in your organization’s values and brand? Take some tips from a 20-year Pixar animator who also has worked with big B2B brands.
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Google Leaders Share How to Improve the Mobile Experience

Google’s mobile-first indexing makes the user experience even more important for brands. But how do you meet the high expectations of mobile users? And how can you make the case for improving your site? Two of Google’s best share how.
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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 3 Content Brands Tackle Their Toughest Internal Challenges

What keeps you up at night about your content marketing program? How to prove its value? How to manage the tech stack? What about your team? Your peers at brands lauded for their content approach reveal how they address the challenges.
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Is Your Marketing Ready for 2018?

In 2018, marketers must expand their view of their role and their sense of how they contribute to the business. Learn how with these takeaways from Content Marketing World and Intelligent Content Conference in 2017.
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Why Marketers Need to Think Like Data Scientists (and How to Do It)

If your marketing team is not working with a data scientist or at least thinking like one, you’re missing the ability to say “I know” instead of “I think.” The distinction matters to data-driven organizations – and budget approval.
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8 Rules for the Startup Marketer (or Anyone Who Wants to Think Like One)

If you work in a big, established company, a presentation on being a marketer on a small team may not seem to apply to you. But the wisdom extends to anyone who wants better flexibility and performance.
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Why Savvy Marketers Close the Pre- and Post-Sale Content Gap

Do your presales and post-sales content teams coordinate efforts for maximum benefit? Or are you like most brands? Presales teams sell. Post-sales teams explain. Rarely the twain shall meet. It doesn’t have to be that way.