Q4 is both the hardest and the most important quarter for content.
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Blogging is nothing new, but it’s arguably gained new relevance in this AI-driven content environment.
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Content strategy for a new business is a plan that defines what you will say, who you will say it to, where you will say it, and how often.
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Your personal brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.
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Why Email Is Back—and What Content Marketers Should Do About It
Specialists go deep. Generalists go wide. Both are valuable.
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The right publishing frequency is the one you can sustain indefinitely—not the most ambitious schedule you can manage for a month.
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By Linda Pophal, MA, SPHR · Strategic Communications, LLC
A case study is a detailed, evidence-based account of how a specific client or customer achieved a measurable outcome using a product, service, or approach. Case studies are told in narrative form to help prospective buyers understand what results are possible and how they might be achieved in their own context. A well-written case study is one of the most persuasive content formats available to B2B marketers because it combines social proof (‘someone like me has done this’) with specificity (‘here’s exactly what happened and what it produced’).
I’ve written a lot of case studies over the years for clients across industries, in formats ranging from one-page snapshots to 3,000-word deep dives. Over that time I’ve read even more: the ones clients show me as examples of what they want, the ones competitors publish, the ones that show up as thought leadership assets in B2B sales cycles.
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Fifteen years ago I interviewed a half-dozen experts about LinkedIn Groups. Here’s how their advice has aged.Continue reading “LinkedIn Groups in 2026: What My 2011 Article Got Right — And What Changed”
