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The Art of Collaborating with SMEs: 8 Essential Tips for Content Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

Product managers, salespeople, customer success managers, and solution engineers, among others, are critical resources for B2B writers. The rub is that the best SMEs are also usually the busiest people in your company, with many demands on their time. It will give you and the SME common ground to start.

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Content Creation 101: Tips for Working With Reluctant Subject Matter Experts

Contently

Bandwidth constraints aren’t the only challenge you may face when working with SMEs. Sometimes the SME recognizes the value of content but doesn’t want to work with you on it. But since that’s your job, dear content person, we’ve crafted some tips to help you succeed at getting great content from SMEs.

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E-A-T vs. YMYL: What You Need To Know for SEO and Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Google released its Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines in response to a leaked version published online. However, this doesn’t mean that all high-quality content is from well-tenured subject matter experts (SME). Content marketing is the process of consistently publishing content that audiences want to consume. High E-A-T.

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Thought Leadership Best Practices: Research On How To Show Your Expertise

Marketing Insider Group

How much do your customers and colleagues trust you? In the Thought Leadership research report, marketers said thought leadership improved website traffic, lead generation, media mentions, email subscribers, customer relationships, and backlinks. Possible outlets are industry publications, partners, and even customers.

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Spotlight on the expert: Greg Krehbiel

Martech

Greg Krehbiel had a decades-long career in B2B and B2C publishing during which he did pretty much everything short of hand-craft individual pixels. He is now president of The Krehbiel Group, a digital consultancy that solves technology, strategy, operations and process problems for publishers. I didn’t know how to write.

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Inside MD Financial Management’s Successful COVID-19 Content Strategy

Contently

Contently Case Stories tell the story behind the amazing work Contently customers are doing. The results have been astounding: 200 percent audience growth, a 38 percent increase in logins by its customers, and a 30 percent uptick in messages to financial advisors. Within a week, they had launched a hub of COVID-19 resource content.

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How to Get Your Internal SMEs to Write for Your Blog

BenchmarkONE

Frequently, the thought leader or role of SME is assumed by the CEO, president, co-founder, or a VP. Maybe their area of expertise is HR, marketing, sales, customer service, or client retention. Helping them build their portfolio of published content, motivating them, and empowering them to share their expertise more. .

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