Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements About the Author Introduction: Your Content Marketing Transformation Chapter 1: Building a Content Creation Framework Why does your business need a framework for creating content? How do you build a framework for creating content? What resources do you need to build a content creation framework? Chapter 2: The Power of Storytelling Why does your business need a story? How do you develop the structure of your story? What does a good story look like? Chapter 3: Generating Content Ideas Why do you need a process for generating content ideas? Where do ideas come from? How do you generate ideas for content creation? Chapter 4: Planning a Long-Term Content Strategy Why is long-term content planning important? How do you build a long-term content strategy? What should a long-term content strategy look like? Chapter 5: Becoming an Effective Writer Why does effective writing matter? How can you attract and engage people with effective content? How can you improve your writing? Chapter 6: Creating a Blog Post Why does blogging help your business grow? How do you create a successful blog post? What does a successful blog post look like? Chapter 7: Extending the Value of Your Content Through Repurposing Why is repurposing content important? How do you extend the value of your content? What?s an example of repurposing content? Chapter 8: How to Effectively Promote Content Why is content promotion important? How do you excel at content promotion? What does a successful content promotion campaign look like? Chapter 9: Measuring and Analyzing Content Why is measuring and analyzing content important? How do you collect and interpret data? What do you do with data after you?ve collected it? Chapter 10: Developing a Growth Marketing Mentality What is growth marketing? How can you develop a growth marketing mindset? What are some growth marketing pro tips? Chapter 11: Creating Topic Clusters and Pillar Pages Why are topic clusters important? How do you create an effective topic cluster and pillar page? What?s an example of a successful pillar page? The Results: Where To Go From Here Glossary Index.

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