$21 billion. That’s how much is expected to be spent on native ads in 2018 (rising from just $4.7 billion in 2013). With those funds, marketers could raise the 14th largest military in the world. Alternatively, we could have fun with 840,000 hot air balloons, 150 million puppies, or 210,000…

It’s no big secret that content marketing is changing right now. I don’t mean “changing” in the little tweaky sort of way. I mean big, massive sea changes. The tricky thing is, we aren’t very good at predicting the future. Even though we see and feel these changes, we aren’t…

Western culture relies heavily on lists. Grocery lists, playlists, bucket lists, to-do lists. These lists are functional as they dictate how and when we’ll do something, and we often rely on them to map out our lives. (This stems from our desire for order and comprehensibility, says Italian philosopher Umberto…

Plagiarized and duplicate content (as well as copyright breach) are not synonyms, but they do have something in common. They’re shortcuts and are usually a desire to gain profit. So what can these misdeeds entail and how do you avert their negative consequences?

Content marketing is an excellent tool for building authority, gaining influence, enhancing visibility, getting attention and, eventually, winning sales. But creating the right content is only half the battle. If you don’t promote your content so that people have the chance to see it then there’s no point in creating…

Amy is 35 years old. She’s just been promoted to Marketing Manager at the SaaS company she works for. She learned the ropes as a marketing assistant for the last few years – but the owners of the company expect a lot from her in her new role. Her first…

Giuseppe Fratoni had a simple battle plan: he would put his business blog at center stage, create great content to position himself as an expert, and drive loads of traffic to his blog (ultimately generating more leads and more clients). Beginning with the well-known content marketing method of interviewing experts,…

Seth Godin, upon learning of the term content marketing, once said, “content marketing is the only marketing that’s left.” Of course, he already knew that delivering value to your audience upfront was the best way to generate awareness, build trust, and cultivate an audience (not to mention, sell stuff).

When it comes time to promote your blog post, I recommend doing everything in your power to do so. Share it, tweet it, promote it, like it, talk about it, comment about it, and put it on every social network you possibly can. At the same time, we can’t rely…