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Good art – and good content marketing – doesn’t take shortcuts 

By Shirley Siluk / 26/01/2024

Ideas are easy. Executing them is hard. And people have always been tempted by the promise of shortcuts to take ideas from conception to execution without that messy ‘hard’ part…

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Jólabókaflóðið- What to get the content marketer in your life

By Zoe McNeill / 20/12/2023

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land Pages were turned, cocoa in hand As evening crept on, and Christmas drew close Jólabókaflóðið reminds us of what we…

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Around the world in seven words

By Andrew Smith / 04/12/2023

Around the world in seven words The are many reasons to sign up to the Collective Content newsletter, which you can do here. One of them is the Word, or…

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11 best content marketing links Q2 23

By Tony Hallett / 03/07/2023

What does generative AI mean for content marketing? Yes, we’re being unapologetically us-centric this quarter – starting with an important blog post from our content director about our position on…

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What the Hero’s Journey can – and can’t – do for you

By Aled Herbert / 19/07/2022

Here at Collective Content, we tell a lot of stories. Or maybe we only tell one. It depends on who you ask.

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Covid, career search and Collective Content

By Eve Michell / 22/12/2020

July 2020: Graduating from Zoomiversity 2020 has been a remarkably virtual year. Due to the pandemic, my final university classes took place over Zoom rather than in lecture halls, and…

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11 essential content marketing links from Q3 19

By Tony Hallett / 30/09/2019

1. 5 components every marketing plan needs to succeed We’re starting big picture. Solid advice. 2. There are three CMO archetypes, but only one is best for driving growth And…

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11 essential content marketing links from Q2 19

By Tony Hallett / 28/06/2019

1. The 9 Rules of Every Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner Cartoon We’re going to start with something a little bit different – and wonderful. From one of the greatest…

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Ghostwriting content? Gotta keep it real

By Tony Hallett / 13/06/2019

Since the beginning of Collective Content, we’ve always been concerned about authenticity. Even if what worries us hasn’t always been called ‘authenticity’ – because, let’s face it, that word isn’t…

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Quality work – why I constantly assess our agency model

By Tony Hallett / 05/11/2018

On my mind: How to describe team members at our content marketing agency. That’s partly because we’re preparing a new website – nothing radical, just something every company does. But…

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Cyber what? Why consistent style isn’t everything

By Aled Herbert / 22/10/2018

As writers and editors, we live in perpetual dread of errors, typos and inconsistencies appearing in our copy. After all, this is our business. We’re meant to be professional. We’ve…

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11 essential content marketing links from Q3 18

By Tony Hallett / 27/09/2018

5 lessons we learned from building 250 landing pages We love this piece, not just as creators of hundreds of landing pages over the years (fist bump to fellow LP…

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