Whenever someone mentions the term “branded content,” my mind still drifts back to the original inspiration for my love of the technique: BMW’s The Hire. The 2001 series consisted of eight online episodes, each featuring Clive Owen as “The Driver” – a mysterious man who fully commits to completing his assigned mission at all costs, […]
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Strap in tight. 2019 will be a rough ride for keyword rankings and SEO professionals will feel the squeeze each time Google downplays traditional search engine results. Google already promotes no-click search results, often providing answers without the need to click for more details. The no-click (also known as zero click) searches will remain a
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If your company wants to be seen as a media outlet, your brand journalism can’t be light on ethics, riddled with errors, and sopping with self-interest that suffocates readers. Real journalism is about building an audience by telling true stories. “Your content needs to meet journalistic standards if you want it to be taken seriously,”
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Recently, Tatiana Morand, a content and SEO manager, asked her employer for a raise. She got it. Content marketer Allison Gagliardi asked for 10% raises at two previous employers. Both times, she got the salary bump. How? Both of them say they didn’t just ask for a raise. They made a case for it.
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A few short years ago, simply writing useful articles regularly was enough to keep your audience engaged and see your SEO rankings steadily grow. Now, consumers are more demanding and the Google algorithm is more advanced. To accommodate both, you need to be always testing new tools and tactics. With content marketing becoming more
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You’re a contestant on a Content Marketing Game Show and you see three marked doors. Behind each door is a content marketing position. Is your dream job behind one of these doors? Let’s see. Door No. 1: Apple! Door No. 2: Acme Accounting! Door No. 3: ABC Plumbing! With Door 1, you get to tell
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In case you haven’t noticed – over the years here at CMI we’ve spent quite a few brain cells and digital ink defining and defending the approach of content marketing as a separate and distinct methodology to influence customer behavior. More than a decade ago, my good friend and CMI founder Joe Pulizzi wrote
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You know you have amazing content, but how do you drive traffic to it? How do you amplify its reach? I interviewed several top B2B marketers to see how they’re doing it, and learned it starts before the content is created and doesn’t end when you hit “publish.” HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 1. Be your content’s
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In the past five years, Facebook’s organic reach has declined significantly – 2016 alone saw a 52% drop. Facebook Pages with over 500,000 “likes” have an average organic reach of 2% or less for each post, according to research from Social@Ogilvy reported by HubSpot. Facebook Pages w/ over 500K likes have an average organic reach
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People learn by creating connections between the familiar and the possible. So it should come as no surprise that, as content marketers, we often approach the task of developing new ideas and initiatives by referencing, analyzing, and iterating on the creative experiences we know and love – standing on the shoulders of giants, so to
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