Content Resources

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Strategy

Fortnite's live performances and Netflix's new ventures are evidence that younger audiences' expectations of content are changing: They don't want to just watch it, they want to experience it. What will be the next way to grab mass audiences' precious time and attention?

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Search | ELEMENT: Strategy

Google will begin to add podcasts to search results. Soon, podcasts won't have to rely on Top 100 lists and word-of-mouth to be discoverable. This development will fundamentally change the medium. Here's what you need to know.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Communicate

Even when you create a great piece of content, it might never be seen if it's not promoted and shared. Promotion is critical to the success of your content strategy, in general. To ensure your content gets seen and generates leads, use these 10 unpaid, organic content-promotion tactics.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Communicate

Nearly 30% of Americans, that's some 70 million people, regularly listen to at least one podcast. For any business, that's a huge opportunity to tap into a market hungry for content, especially in niche areas of interest. Your podcast audience is waiting for you...

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Strategy

Are you still using the sales funnel as your model for marketing? Stop. There's a better, far more accurate way that also aligns with lead nurturing and trust-building via content marketing. It's lifecycle marketing, and here is how it works.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Management

To get the maximum return on investment from their content marketing and sales teams, company executives need to create a culture that enables those teams to work together. Here's a three-step guide to creating that kind of company atmosphere.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email | ELEMENT: Create

Revisit the emails you sent to your B2B audience recently. How many ideas, emotions, and benefits did each message contain or refer to? How many possible responses could it have elicited? Chances are... too many! For high-converting emails, follow this rule instead.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Plan

Although the concept of delivering quality content to educate and build trust with customers is a sound one, actually executing on that idea—in a way that serves both the customer and the marketer—has never been more difficult. But content marketing can—and will—be saved. Here's how.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Plan

When writing for marketing, you need to connect with your audience. But first you have to understand who they are and what they care about. To understand what will motivate your potential customers, use empathy mapping. Here's how.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Strategy

All the digital channels and bells and whistles aside, your success as a marketer today still stems from using emotional marketing that understands consumers' needs and preferences. Now, with the emergence of influencer marketing, we can combine these two approaches in our content marketing to reach deep into our desired audiences.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Search | ELEMENT: Analyze

If your website or blog has an abundance of posts and pages that aren't search-engine optimized, you should be thinking about doing a content audit to improve SEO. Here's a six-step content audit and optimization process that will markedly improve organic traffic to your site.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Search | ELEMENT: Management

Businesses that rely on organic search for sales and conversions know the importance of SEO, but ranking for keywords is becoming harder and more time-consuming. But there's plenty you can do about that. Complete these three SEO tasks to improve your site's organic search visibility across the Web.