The post Here’s Why You Need a Documented Content Strategy appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog. When building your content strategy, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. After all, storytelling is a creative discipline. It’s a self-fueling jet engine with ideas that spark even. Beginner Content Marketing Marketing Strategy MORE

However, a well-documented strategy can offer new insights, according to a study on 2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North America from MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute. Tracking content marketing ROI remains a challenge for most brands. MORE

It is the most popular document sharing site available, with over 50,000 uploads each day. OK, here’s the question: why would you want to market through a site that is based on sharing documents? Using Scribd makes uploading all of your documents a simple task. MORE

Do you have a documented content/social strategy? There has been a lot of hype over the past year about “documented content strategies” – you know, the type of strategy that’s actually written down and planned out, not just left to memory through verbal brainstorming and game planning. MORE

What most organizations fail to do is document the buyers approach to the purchase (this is more than just interest, consensus, evaluation, decision). MORE

When you get over 100 products at perhaps 100 pages per (counting all your user documentation), you reach a point of diminishing returns on marking up content for search engines and navigation systems. Managers of large sites must balance search AI with navigation IA. MORE

When the recession hit a few years ago one company found that it needed to transform itself into the largest document management company for the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry in the world. MORE

We then document those lessons, and once-a-year, we review the key themes. Be sure your contracts and documentation tackle as many of these project unknowns as possible. This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Agency Post. To read more content like this, subscribe to Agency Post. MORE

To document, or not to document: it’s not really a fair question. You should definitely document your content strategy. Without documentation, you cannot maintain consistency throughout internal changes and across. MORE

Marketers who take the time to document their content marketing strategy are more effective than those who don’t. That’s a great starting point, but taking the time to document the strategy you’ve created is a critical next step.”. MORE

The Problem: Research suggests “facts vs. myths” documents do not deliver information effectively due to the way our brains process that information. For example, if you produce a product that has some buzz and people don’t really know what’s true and what’s not, do not develop a facts vs. myths document to set the story straight. Scientific research related to human behavior has given us much insight into how people process information. MORE

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content. MORE

The PDF (Portable Document Format) was created by Adobe Systems in the early 90s as a way for companies and individuals to efficiently and reliably exchange electronic documents. MORE

The post This AI Startup Wants To Automate Your Tedious Document Searches appeared first on Opentopic. – For the casual internet user, a quick Google search is often all it takes to find plenty of information on any particular topic. MORE

Success in content marketing demands a well-planned, documented strategy. Identify what success looks like and then map out your journey to get there. Having a general vision of what you want your content marketing to do, along with what types of content and tactics you’re going to use, isn’t a strategy. That’s called a vague […]. The post What Exactly Is a Content Marketing Strategy? appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing MORE

It’s the foundation of your efforts, and studies like this have proved that documenting it makes teams more effective at content marketing. Execution is arguably the most difficult part of content marketing. Don’t get me wrong; a solid content strategy is critical. MORE

With the Twitter IPO and review of their S-1 document , one can anticipate more resources for Twitter to focus on four components of their value proposition: Public. MORE

When asked if they had a Content Marketing Strategy – 39% of organizations replied “yes, but it is not documented.” If you are able to have a “strategy” that is not documented, then I would like to announce that I have a Ph.D., What is the importance of documenting a content strategy? MORE

Twenty-three years ago, the PDF, or portable document format, was released. When Contently acquired Docalytics—now called Document Analytics —a year ago, we knew it had the potential to change how businesses use downloadable content. Document Analytics also allows for sharing control. MORE

Otherwise referred to as a user manual, a user guide is a technical document with a quite specific purpose: to help non-technical people pinpoint and solve problems without expert assistance. MORE

You already know that having and documenting your strategy is important because you’ve probably read the same reports and case studies that my team and I have read. How to Document Your Content Marketing Strategy. If this documented strategy seems like a lot, that’s because it is. MORE

That’s why it’s important to document your content marketing knowledge. The post Hack Your Content Plan: Here’s How to Document Your Content Marketing Strategy appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog. Times of change for organizations are times of celebration. As your company begins to expand, so will your content marketing team—as your organization evolves, so will your need for more editors, storytellers, consultants, and freelancers. MORE

Proud parents document every poop and meltdown to the point that there is a permanent digital content trail for their adult selves to discover and process. The post How digital documentation may create our lives appeared first on Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}. MORE

More importantly, Office Online saves your documents in Microsoft Office file formats like.docx,xlsx, and.pptx…When you create a file in Office Online, it should look the same in the desktop version of Microsoft Office.” Document Management. for documents up to 25 pages. MORE

First off, the three big useful (but not surprising) insights from the report are that the most successful marketers: Document their marketing strategy and processes: Marketing teams that document their strategy are six times more likely to report success than those who don’t, and those who document processes are five times more likely to say they’re successful. Which is why a documented strategy and audience research are so important. MORE

Each organization invests hours of work and numerous processes to deal with documents, data and information every single day and across multiple departments. MORE

In this episode, we highlight changes to Google’s 20% Time and a document analytics program called Docalytics. We’re back with another episode of “What’s New Weekly.” As always, look for a new episode every week. © © 2013, VR Marketing Blog. All rights reserved. MORE

At Contently, that’s a problem we’ve solved through our new technology: Contently Document Analytics. Key findings include: Though the average length of a downloadable document is 13.4 The post Report: The First Engagement Benchmarks for Downloadable Documents appeared first on The Content Strategist. ROI Document Analytics downloadable content FeaturedMarketers can track almost everything that lives on the web. MORE

For example, did you know you can look at a document's entire revision history to figure out what was changed and when? Writing a long document with a lot of subsections that readers may want to jump to? Boom: It'll format the foreign text to fit with the rest of your document. MORE

iPads are not designed for document storage but your sales force doesn’t need to store anything if the cloud is available and your bandwidth is strong. MORE

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Documented Content Strategy Helps. What the CMI/MarketingProfs Benchmark Study did indicate is that those organizations with a documented content strategy had a better rate of effectiveness. You can surmise from the above that having a documented content strategy is not enough. MORE

Opentopic blog >> itpro.co.uk 11/05/2016: Actress and women’s rights campaigner Emma Watson has been forced to defend her reputation after she was named in the Panaman Papers. Watson’s name was found the The Spectator using the searchable database of 214,000 offshore entities that was published yesterday. However, she has denied that she used her account for tax evasion purposes. Cognitive Technology undefined MORE

One of the widely used tools nowadays is online software documentation, and if you are in charge of online business, it is an absolute necessity. One of the main reasons to use online software documentation is better data management. MORE

These should be packaged into a formal requirements document so you have them all in one place, easily organized and available to share with vendors. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors. These same elements should appear in pretty much any requirements document. MORE

Eighty-three percent of marketers have a content strategy, and of that total, only about half have it officially documented (meaning it’s not just a nebulous concept that lives in their team’s heads). MORE

These statistics indicate that it helps to fully grasp a content marketing strategy before executing it, but how many B2B marketers have a documented plan? they rate them as more effective when compared with their peers who don’t have a documented strategy),” wrote the authors of the report. MORE

That’s why this week we’re excited to announce the official launch of Document Analytics. Contently users can upload downloadable documents like PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and Keynote decks into the Contently library. MORE

Undocumented strategy could be the cause of discontent with nonprofit marketing, as the study showed that only 23 percent of marketers with a content marketing strategy actually document it. Some had a strategy but had simply not taken the time to document it,” the report stated. MORE

The post Brand Guidelines: How to Document Your Style appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog. So you’ve got some fabulous writers, both on staff and as freelancers. Their writing skills are superb, and they’ve demonstrated that they know their stuff when it comes to your. MORE

Once you’ve got a document that defines your brand’s voice, use it. And if you’ve got two documents – one that’s a style guide, and another that goes more into the “squishy” worldview/mindset work we discussed here – then all the better. MORE

Document the concept. CMI reports that roughly 37% of B2B marketers and 40% of B2C marketers have a documented content plan. Digital marketers are aware of the importance of a documented plan. MORE

Content enrichment: It’s easy to embed or hyperlink video in any online document, it’s surprising that few of them take advantage of the power of video to enrich and enliven text. This is especially the case for technical documents that describe processes and relationships. MORE