This document outlines best practices for content marketing including research, amplification, and monitoring. For research, it recommends analyzing what content and formats resonate with audiences, current trends, and competitors' strategies. For amplification, it discusses gaining links, shares, and paid promotion, as well as identifying influencers. For monitoring, it suggests tracking content performance benchmarks over time, competitor publishing and mentions, and using alerts. The overall goal is creating valuable, relevant, and timely content to engage audiences.