At the beginning of the year, we are always looking for resolutions. Things we want to change, areas we want to grow it, and ways to make our lives better. One of the areas we tend to focus on is our education. In marketing, you are asked to do the impossible, stay on top of new trends and be proficient in your ability to drive results. That's right, we have to try new things and be right all the time? "Especially once you do any craft for a while, you learn a lot about it, and so all of us...

In this show, Pamela Muldoon sits down with Jeff Coyle to discuss marketing insights and changes in digital marketing that most marketers might not know about. Full Show: http://emktr.co/2wv2Wd0 Biography: Jeff Coyle is a data-driven search engine marketing executive with more than 16 years of experience managing products and website networks. Jeff is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer for MarketMuse, where he is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies...

When your marketing team is focusing on the channels rather than the primary asset, the content, you loose the ability to understand the quality of your leads coming from your site. You don't know what they have seen, where you think they are going, and why they are where they are. Being able to have a ledger of content consumption habits of this user and comparing that to where you want them to go and what others have found valuable, you really start to be able to drive customer journeys. ...

"What would you say you do here?" If the Bobs from Office Space were to invade your Content Marketing team, would they be able to understand your role as Content Strategist and how beneficial it is to the organization? "Content Strategy is not just for marketing." The role is as much internal as it is external. You have sales teams who need to use content to convert the audience. You have HR teams that need to drive culture and long-term employment. Then you have the customer who needs...

The CMI team has been through a lot of changes over the past year with the acquisition by UBM. The thing that has not changed is their passion for the community and their friendship within. At ICC, we were able to host a poker game with only UBM/CMI staffers and talk to them about the event, their team, and some of the things they love.

Let's face it, we are in strange times when it comes to creative, design, and digital asset development. From the marketing teams perspective, for nearly a century, they have relied on some form of advertising agencies to augment their team's capabilities to deliver results. From the business perspective, for nearly a century, they have relied on some form of consulting firms to augment their team's capabilities to deliver results. From the IT teams perspective, for half a century, they...

Full Show: https://enterprisemarketer.com/podcasts/enterprise-marketer-podcast-conference/61-noz-urbina/ Customer Journey is one of the most deceptive and alluring terms in Content Marketing. After the words come off your tongue, you imagine an adventure involving sword fighting, trials, tribulations, and the purchase of your products. Your customers should thank you for your skills of sorcery and ability to foretell their future. Your efforts will lead them down the correct path with their...

https://enterprisemarketer.com/podcasts/enterprise-marketer-podcast-conference/60-andrea-neiman/ Understanding what is working with your audience is at the core of Content Marketing, but most marketers leave this up to chance. Other times we just focus on what everyone else is doing and model that and we leave our differentiator behind. So what can marketers do to help bring insights into reality versus our gut feel? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Andrea Neiman of NetLine to talk...

https://enterprisemarketer.com/podcasts/enterprise-marketer-podcast-conference/59-peg-miller/ Your education never ends. Our segment of the business requires marketers to always stay on top of the most effective ways of engaging an audience and ensuring our pencils are always sharp and ready to deliver value. However, this is not always the outlook of our peers. In this episode, Peg Miller, Co-founder of the B2B Marketing Academy sits down with Jeff Julian to discuss ongoing education...

"[Google is] creating this super industry around data science and AI." Search ranking factors are becoming more elusive and marketers and technologists are working harder than ever to deliver the right content to the right audiences. Doug Bell, VP of Marketing at Searchmetrics, and host Jeff Julian discuss the future of SEO and what Searchmetrics is seeing as 'signals' that land web pages in top SERPs. "Google's job is to ultimately over time make sure...that the content gets better and...

The production of content has never been more complex than it is today. The platforms we use, the methodologies we deploy, and the media we use to reach audiences cause marketers to become amazing specialists of several topics. I coined the term Renaissance Marketer to describe the many functions we require. However, when you start to embrace these new talents you are developing, the pressure to get down compels us to go fast rather than focus on value. To Matt Dion, CEO on Mintent, this...

Show URL: http://emktr.co/EMPC56 Ever wondered what drives the decision makers behind Content Marketing Institute? Cathy McPhillips, VP of Marketing at CMI, and host Jeff Julian came together for a quick chat at this year's Intelligent Content Conference and examined the strategy that propels some of the world's most well-known content events. In previous years, ICC was an event focused on featuring and supporting content strategy which, to a huge portion of marketers, is still a fairly new...

Content needs it's own engineers, these days. Matthew Balogh and host Jeff Julian sit down at this year's Intelligent Content Conference to examine the opportunities that technology has created for intelligent content, and how marketers and technologists need to work together to realize the full potential of their strategies. Matthew Balogh is a Senior Director of Content Engineering at The Medicines Company, and content engineering is a new role in the marketing world. Matthew uses his...

Buyers personas today are missing two things: depth and context. Ardath Albee dives deep into the complexities of building usable personas developing engaging content. http://emktr.co/EMPC54 Biography Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist and the CEO of her firm, Marketing Interactions, Inc. She applies over 28 years of business management and marketing experience to help companies with complex sales create eMarketing strategies that use contagious content platforms to turn prospects...

Who said a discussion about Intelligent Content can't be as entertaining as it is educational? Definitely not our team at Enterprise Marketer! In our 50th episode of the podcast, Jeff Julian hosts and Pamela Muldoon deals a game of Texas Holdem with our special guest Joe Pulizzi, Andrea Ames, Carlos Abler, and Vishal Khanna. During the show we talk about the future, insights from a new author, define what a Content Engineer is, and have a great time. CONTENT OFFERS We hope you enjoy this...

When customers want better content experiences and a personal voice to our brands, the first company you might not think of for an example is IBM. During the 70s, 80s, and 90s, when personal computing started to take off, brands like Apple, Microsoft, Packard Bell, and Compaq were seen as the cool kids. IBM, well that is the machine your father used at work. In this episode, Jeff talks with Andrea Ames, Content Strategist, Architect, and Designer at IBM, about how her team is changing the...

One on my favorite topics is Agile Marketing, and to find another person in the area who has passion about the subject is a very awesome thing. Travis Arnold, self-described digital marketer, business owner, and a technical guy, is one of the original community contributors to the idea behind bringing Agile to marketing. In this episode, Travis and I discuss how he got started with the subject, how teams can focus on delivering amazing content by focusing on customer satisfaction, and when...

Who said a discussion about Intelligent Content can't be as entertaining as it is educational? Definitely not our team at Enterprise Marketer! In our 50th episode of the podcast, Jeff Julian hosts and Pamela Muldoon deals a game of Texas Holdem with our special guest Rober Rose, Matthew Balogh, Buddy Scalera, and Andrea Fryrear. During the show we talk about the future, insights from a new author, define what a Content Engineer is, and have a great time. Biography Buddy Scalera - Buddy...

For a Content Marketing effort to work, you have to focus your work on creating consistently delivered content that is valuable to an audience. Sometimes our personas are simple, due to the lack of geographic area we have to cover. However, the value received in an article written for a banker in the United States could be completely different than that of a banker in Kenya. In this episode, Pam Didner and Jeff Julian discuss the new for Global Content Marketing teams and how you can get...

People often get overwhelmed just thinking about all that has the be done with a marketing initiative. However, once they start building momentum and the using tools and techniques to keep them on the right track, they get the peace of mind required to do good work. In this show, Ja-Nae Duane joins us to discuss how Lean principles and the mindset of an entrepreneur can be used in your marketing programs. We hope this show will help you think outside the box when it comes to an upcoming...

Apps have eaten the web. The Internet of Things will mean more Internet traffic generated and consumed by machines than by humans. Machines are learning our habits faster than we can form them. What does all this mean for the future? How will we interact with our devices when they are as smart or smarter than we are? How will anyone manage to make money is this coming world? Join Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker for an entertaining and thought provoking jaunt into the future –...

We all have projects in our life that we are passionate about. Some of these projects are at home with our family, others are at work, and then we have to side projects that have an impact on a very different audience. For Marcia Riefer Johnston, her desire to get to know her neighbors drove her to complete a project in class on social media and through the lens of Content Marketing. Marcia, Content Strategy Consultant at the Content Marketing Institute and Author of Word Up!, sits down...

When we hear the word brand, most of us associate things like color, logo, and fonts. However, Jeremy Miller of Sticky Branding thinks about a much larger picture. “What I care about is how you build a relationship with your customers.” In this episode, Jeremy and Jeff talk through what Jeremy calls a “first choice advantage” and how brands can engage with customers early because of this approach to branding. Jeremy also describes this new buying habit of customers where they binge content...

You know we love video marketing at Enterprise Marketer, and it is not a shock to find out that Stacy Adams, Head of Marketing for GoAnimate, feels the same way. In this show, Stacy shares her insights in online video marketing and goes through how businesses can get started with live-action or animated video. Throughout the show, we get into how video can enhance the customer experience on your site and the rest of the marketing strategies. We hope this show will help you think outside the...