In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? A lot, it turns out. In early 2017, the iQ team borrowed a page from the traditional media playbook – […]
In 1995, Steve Jobs was interviewed by Robert Cringely for a PBS documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. During the on-camera discussion, the future Apple CEO reflected on the notion that generating big ideas isn’t the same thing as being able to bring them to life in a valuable way. As he said, “There’s just a
People are always going to have problems, so as a marketer or business owner, your job is to solve these problems for your ideal clients. This really is the key to business success. Here’s the thing, problem-solving is easier said than done. You can’t take this lightly and can’t just go halfway with it because
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Now that we’ve officially declared quality victorious over its long-time nemesis quantity, I’d like to propose that we also retire the well-worn phrase, “Content is king.” Instead, I’d like to propose a new alliterative truth: “Quality is queen.” But how do we make it happen? In an interesting (and somewhat counterintuitive) twist, it turns out
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Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words. You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it
Many businesses out there spend the last few months of the year planning their content strategy for the year ahead. They have color-coded spreadsheets completed, goals in the place, and the optimism that the next 12 months are going to be the best yet. So, let me ask you a potentially awkward question: Are you on track
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Unless today is your first day as a content marketer, you’re aware of how essential a documented strategy is to achieving content marketing success. It’s one of those mantras you’ve heard being chanted again and again throughout every corner of the industry until you simply can’t help but accept it as truth. It really is
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Top 200 Stores Offering Student Discounts or 38 Products With Lifetime Warranties can be eye catching and attract a few links, but do they actually answer how people are searching? Let’s stay in the discounts and warranties space. Does Walmart Give Student Discounts? Outside of the StudentRate result, does anyone want to click on these?
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You’ve just been hired. Your boss comes to you and says, “We want millions of people regularly viewing our content within the next five years. Go.” You make it happen. Riiiiight. Well, Jay Lauf, co-president and publisher of Quartz, made this happen with his team. He told the story of how they did it in
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Content audits are about as popular as colonoscopies but they’re just as necessary to health – in this case, the health of your content marketing strategy. But you likely dread the tedious, time-consuming annual content audit, and reliably and predictably put it off (and sometimes never get it done.) What if you could do a
