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How One Content Leader Launched a 150-Year Old Brand Into the Modern Era

R. Ethan Braden revamped Purdue University's old-fashioned comms team to enchant audiences with captivating content – and doubled the school's commitment to marketing. Here's a look at his content approach – and why he's the 2023 B2C Content Marketer of the Year.
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Is Speed, Not AI Technology, the Real Enemy in Marketing?

Marketers are due for an epiphany. Speed is the name of the tech game. But what won’t you delegate to technology in the name of successful marketing?
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5 Writing Tricks That Treat Audiences to Better Data-Based Stories

If the thought of numbers sends you running into the night, try these tricks to become the writing wizard of numerals. No addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or other calculation required.
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Why Your Content Team Needs Rule Makers – and Rule Breakers

Content teams often resist creating rules because they don’t want to operate in a box. But that’s a mistake. Without rules, you lose the ability to benchmark the standard – and learn from the creative rule breakers.
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Adobe’s New Icon Brings Authentication of Visual Content in the Era of AI

Adobe unveiled a new icon that allows marketers to adopt a better transparency strategy in this era of generative AI. Here’s what the new Content Credentials feature means for you.
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Master Content Proofreading and Editing With These Tips

Wearing two hats at the same time is an odd and uncomfortable look. Yet, content marketers do it all the time when they edit and proofread at the same time. Here’s how to make each a distinct – and more valuable – experience.
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How a Dash of Familiarity Makes Controversial Content More Palatable

Controversial content topics get attention – for better or worse. To earn the best kind, try balancing these four elements: surprise, familiarity, consensus, and controversy. This new framework can help.
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How Outsourcing Content Production Can Save Your Marketing Budget

Working with outsourced talent adds flexibility and scalability to your content marketing program – and can be more cost-effective than you might think. Here’s what to consider and how to use this approach to your best strategic advantage.
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Buyers Want To Trust Content. But Do They Value Yours? [New Research]

The 2023 Trust in Marketers research finds buyers generally trust brands’ content. But they also are less likely to find value in it. How can you bridge that gap? The answer’s pretty simple. (Well, maybe.)
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How To Build a Content-Driven, Audience-Centric Content Strategy

What does it mean to build a truly audience-centric content strategy? For the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, it meant rethinking everything (in pursuit of a noble ultimate goal). Learn how they did it in this excerpt from Robert Rose’s new book.
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How To Find (and Close) the Hidden Gaps in Your Content Strategy

Your content marketing has holes that you can’t see. They may manifest themselves from the beginning or materialize over time. But no matter how they started, it’s time to identify and fill them in with a content gap analysis.
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Out of Content Ideas? Try Borrowing One or Two (Even From Your Competitors)

You don’t need unique content ideas to differentiate your brand. You can recombine and reshape existing ideas to make them your own – even (or maybe especially) ones that didn’t work for other companies. Here’s how to get started.