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            Yes, You Should Talk About Your Competitors
                    
                        
                            Editor's note: Originally published by Ryan Law in 2020. Updated by David Galic in 2025.Talking about competitors makes many brands nervous. But it shouldn't.So we'll say it clearly:...
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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                10/23/25
             
            
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            How to Do a Content Audit (the Strategic Way)
                    
                        
                            Content marketing is one of the few marketing channels that gets more valuable over time. Pay for an article once, and you can generate traffic, links, and sales from it for months to come.To a...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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                06/21/24
             
            
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            The Future of SEO in a Post-ChatGPT World
                    
                        
                            SEO is the growth engine that powers many companies, so it’s worth paying particular attention to any new technology that might change the rules of search.While SEO isn’t dying, it is undergoing...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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                05/02/23
             
            
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            The 6 Risks of AI Content
                    
                        
                            There are already plenty of use cases for generative AI in marketing. Industry and article research. Getting to first draft faster. Creating content briefs. Brainstorming titles and headers,...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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                04/18/23
             
            
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            The Quality Cliff: A Mental Model for CMOs
                    
                        
                            When does it make sense to invest in content quality? When is the time and expense—the research and interviewing, editorial review, structuring and optimisation, UX and design—worthwhile? And when...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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                03/08/23
             
            
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            How to Write a Case Study (That Actually Closes Deals)
                    
                        
                            Blindfold a dozen marketers. Ask them to describe the guiding principles of a case study. You’ll hear the same answers again and again.Make the customer the hero of the story. Follow a recognizable...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
            
                    
                        
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            Hyper-Competitive Content Marketing With Buffer’s Ash...
                    
                        
                            Ash Read, Editorial Director at Buffer, talks through: how to compete in an industry saturated by content marketing; finding your unique differentiator; the power of brand and vision in content;...
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
             
            AI, Twitter Marketing & The Creator Economy with Blake...
                    
                        
                            Blake Emal, Chief Marketing Officer at Copy.ai, explains how AI can help small content teams, how to get great at Twitter marketing, and why Copy.ai encourages its team to embrace side projects.
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                        
                    
                
             
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                            Dr. Fio Dossetto, editor-in-chief of contentfolks and former Senior Editor at Hotjar, talks through “product-led” content, writing search content without becoming a copycat, and levelling-up your...