20 Quick Content Promotion Strategies to Test
March 16, 2018
As more organizations turn to content marketing, many mistakenly hope to see results without promotion. Content is left on a website with little to no engagement, leading to further discouragement and abandoned blogs. Vital to the success of your content is a great promotion or distribution strategy. We’ve rounded up the top content promotion strategies […]
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How to Use LinkedIn for Content Marketing
March 13, 2018
Marketers have noticed LinkedIn’s explosive growth over the past few years. At the close of 2017, LinkedIn had an impressive 500 million members. As LinkedIn debuts new features and ways to connect, it’s expected to become an important channel for both B2B and B2C marketers this year. To leverage LinkedIn effectively for 2018, organizations need […]
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Solo-Marketers Guide to Building a Content Calendar
March 1, 2018
Are you a solo-marketers who needs help building a content calendar? You’re not alone! If your day looks anything like mine, “content” covers a lot of different projects and tasks at work. Content marketing at technology companies usually includes some combination of writing blog posts and longer-form content. That could be whitepapers, posting on LinkedIn […]
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Ideation Involves Collaboration
February 26, 2018
When Henry David Thoreau was working on his first novel, he moved to a small cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts. His reflection on the two years spent at this cabin became the famous work, Walden. That is the idea most people have of writers – the isolated genius toiling away in some far-off shack […]
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How Dueling Ideas Can Drive Your Editorial Calendar
February 20, 2018
Internet branding guru Larry Kim says that great content ideas often hide at the crossroads between what a brand does or offers and what the target audience is interested in. Strong blog ideation involves finding that intersection and figuring out how to create content around it. Asking questions such as “What does yarn have to […]
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More Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid in 2018 (Part 2)
February 16, 2018
Wordsmiths and creatives alike, the first instincts of writers and marketers don’t typically gravitate toward data. One of the biggest content marketing mistakes is to create, publish, and promote content without thinking much about audience analytics or the performance of previous content. The real gift of digital content marketing is that it is 100% measurable. […]
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Content Marketing In 2018: 50 Statistics
February 15, 2018
When it comes to content marketing, there’s always lots of information floating around…most of it contradictory. One expert says this; another says that it is any wonder marketers feel perpetually lost in the weeds. In this post, we’re giving you the facts and nothing but the facts. These statistics are going to help you paint […]
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How To Outsource Content Creation Without Sacrificing Quality
February 6, 2018
Content marketing is a long game—it requires consistent effort in creating and promoting high-quality content to generate the intended results. Can you achieve this goal if you outsource content? Read on. If you find the task of producing a large amount of content daunting, you’re not alone. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone, […]
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The Key Document You Need For Generating Compelling Content
February 5, 2018
There’s no doubt that content creation is an effective long-term strategy for generating high-quality leads, building trust with an audience, converting prospects into buyers, and cultivating loyalty with existing customers. However, your content marketing strategy is only as good as how appealing and relevant the content is to your ideal customers. After all, if they […]
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Nostalgia Marketing: The Day the Internet Stood Still
January 30, 2018
From Star Wars to Stranger Things to Russia, 80s nostalgia is back in a big way. But in the field of information security, the 1980s never ended. The 1980s are when hackers and computer viruses began to gain prominence, when nation-state attackers began to become a serious threat and when many of the security tools […]
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