Are You Making These Monstrous Content Mistakes?

For Halloween, our thoughts have turned to the insidious content strategy blindspots that hide the monsters killing your results. So in the spirit of the season, we thought we’d take a look at some common bugaboos that can creep into any company’s content operations. But never fear — we’re here with a bag of treats and just […]

Wise Content Strategists Ask “Who” 10 Times

Wise Content Strategist Asks Who 10 Times

Content is a team sport. One that requires commitment, cooperation and collaboration — not only within your core content team but across organizational silos. You can’t do it all alone (and you wouldn’t want to!), so it’s important to know who will own each key element of your program. And to know who, you need […]

49 Free Stock Photo Sites Content Marketers Will Love

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As a content marketer, you know the value of finding just the right image to bring text to life — even when you don’t have the budget for original photography. Luckily there are dozens of sites that publish free photos for use by web developers, content creators, bloggers and designers. But with so many sites to […]

The 5 E’s of Content Excellence

For content to work, it all starts with purpose. Too many organizations fall prey to the idea that more is more, and end up creating buckets of content that go unused or miss the mark altogether. The way to avoid this common pitfall is to always assign and infuse a purpose into your content – […]

Nine Content Marketing Tools Your Competition Isn’t Using (Yet)

There’s hardly a shortage of tools that claim and aim to make content marketers more effective, efficient, even more creative. Some aim to automate the entire content marketing lifecycle while others pinpoint a specific pain point (from visual design to better analytics) — and while the big boys like Contently, NewsCred, Percolate and Kapost will […]

Coke’s Path from Cola Company to Content Creator

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The media landscape today bears little resemblance to the media landscape five years ago, let alone 50 years ago. If that statement comes as a revelation to you, you really haven’t been paying attention. But there’s a big difference between marketing pundits pounding the drum, and major brand marketers changing they way they connect with […]