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State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back

Contently - Strategy

Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. After hundreds of meetings and workshops this year, I feel confident that content marketing is about to take a big leap—thanks to a few key factors.

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LinkedIn Social Selling Training & Digital Marketing Workshop Debuts

wiredPRworks

On March 10 and 11, I'll be teaching an immersive two-day digital marketing, LinkedIn training and social selling skills workshop. Digital Marketing, LinkedIn Training and Social Selling Workshop in Chicago. How blogging fits into a content marketing strategy. CLASS DESCRIPTION.

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How to Go Beyond the Persona and Find Your Muse

Contently - Strategy

.” Besides supplying the info we need to target Sally with Instagram ads for crap she’ll regret buying, personas are designed to help the creative process. This is based on a long-established idea about creativity: It’s best to have a person in mind when you’re creating. The problem with personas.

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Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. And like many writers, he’s a loner who believes the world needs nothing more than his textually-active method of bringing a creative problem to its knees. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing?

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Caine’s Arcade: How Powerful Storytelling Can Make a Difference

Polaris

creative agency. Forbe s and Fast Company both wrote about Caine’s determination and creativity. Caine led a workshop at Maker Faire teaching kids how to make their own cardboard creations. Later that year he launched The Imagination Foundation with a mission to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids.

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The Storyteller's Guide to MAICON: 7 Sessions You Can't Miss

PR 20/20

At the heart of what we do, all marketers are storytellers. Through content marketing, we work hard to design narratives that inspire, inform, explain, and even challenge what our buyers might already believe. Luckily, new technologies are enabling marketers to deliver on smarter content marketing strategies.

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

Today, we’re introducing three new services— Automated Press Releases , Automated Performance Reports and Piloting AI ™ Workshops —but, first, the backstory. Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. Are you ready?

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