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FREE EBOOK: 10 Times Wise Content Strategists Ask WHO?
Introducing our latest content strategy quick-read, 10 Times Wise Content Strategists Ask WHO? It’s based on our popular post with a similar name and brought to life in a handy ebook format. This is the second in a series that aims to help anyone interested content (not just content strategists and content
Don’t Buy Content Marketing Software Until You Do THIS
“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau For many of us, we’re living proof of Thoreau’s statement, as we sleep with our phones next to our pillows or forget how we made coffee before K-cups. (Was there coffee before K-cups?) And if you’re a teenager,
Mary Meeker’s Trend Report Fails As Content. Here’s How to Fix It.
Each year Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker releases her annual internet trends report. Each year, the tech press fawns over her findings. This year was no exception. But when you review her work through a content strategy lens, you find that no matter how well-researched her points are,
Earth-Shattering Moments from NewsCred’s 2016 #ThinkContent Summit
Ninety-nine percent of the phone calls I have with my mom come to a close with her saying, “Well, I can’t think of anything else earth-shattering.” After we’ve caught up about family news, her latest golf tournament wins (she’s seriously skilled on the greens), a bit about the weather, and a
Free e-Book: 10 Content Strategy Questions Every Organization Must Answer
Today, we’re excited to let our newest creation loose in the wild — our very first e-book. ‘10 Content Strategy Questions Every Organization Must Answer’ is based on our popular blog post of the same name, and newly expanded with plenty of fresh content. Still, it’s a breezy read for
Why You Don’t Have a Content Strategy (And What To Do About It)
Nearly all B2B enterprises use content marketing. They’re doing more of it each year and spending more money on it than ever before — on average, 25% of their total marketing spend, according to research from Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs. Yet 65% have no written content strategy, 71% aren’t
What Making a WWII Documentary Taught Me About Storytelling
The world of business has never been good at emotion. Business — and the more masculine style of leadership — typically prefers the territory of hard facts and figures. Showing emotions is tantamount to showing weakness. Yet, as John Mellor VP of Business Development and Strategy at Adobe said at the
Is Your Content Ready for the “Mobile Now”?
Regular readers will recall, I spoke at Content Marketing Institute’s Intelligent Content Conference earlier this year. My topic was content strategy for the untethered world — essentially, how brands should make their content ready for a future in which the number of interfaces by which that content will be consumed
B2B Brands Stumped By Strategy
Content Marketing Institute continues to find new ways to slice and dice their 2016 study of business-to-business content benchmarks. Most recently, they released a report focused on larger enterprises (1,000+ employees), with findings that closely mirrored the more general report they released earlier in the year. In a post highlighting
5 Ways Stories Drive Business Transformation Success
Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, once said that the future of all business is about storytelling. It’s telling (pun intended) that the man charged with bringing his venerable institution into the technology-driven 21st century would point to a something as old fashioned as
