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In 2013 there were 152 million blogs on the web, with a new blog created every half second. I’m not talking blog articles here, I’m talking 152 million individual content production centers. So what? Can you ever have too much information? Yes! That’s a ton of content, and the result is a massively disproportionate amount… Weiter »
Don’t expect content marketing to move at the same pace you have witnessed over the past 10 years. If you sit pat with your current strategy, you’ll become obsolete within six months. Period. In keeping with the explosive pace of technology and the artificial intelligence that powers it, content marketing is and will be evolving… Weiter »
Remember that game Guess Who? You had to narrow down a field of people to find the one your opponent had chosen. Is this person wearing glasses? Do they have brown hair? Are they wearing a hat? Via Amanda Talar WordPress Well, as a B2B marketer, I bet you sometimes feel like you’re playing a… Weiter »
Becoming a parent changes you. One minute you’re dancing on top of a table in Cancun, the next you’re pushing a double stroller through Costco. And although swapping daiquiris for diaper duty may render your Saturday nights slightly less epic, parenting has its rewards. It could even boost your business. Raising children requires you to… Weiter »
Picture this: You’ve spent three years at your company. You like it, you’re doing well and you’re starting to feel confident. Not “tell-your-boss-off confident” or “show-up-three-hours-late confident,” but you’re feeling pretty good. One day, your boss gives you the responsibility to choose a marketing automation solution. You have a budget of $25,000 per quarter. Do… Weiter »
When business decision-makers go home at night, they chop onions. They tuck their children into bed. Maybe they catch up on Game of Thrones. They wake up the next morning and brew their favorite brand of coffee. When they scan through Facebook on the train to work, they might come across Old Spice’s famous “The… Weiter »
All too often, content marketing is all about “me.” When building content marketing strategies, it’s easy to get caught up in what you want to say about yourself – your messaging, your value propositions, your story, etc. But it’s just as important to consider what your customers are saying about your brand. Unfortunately, many companies… Weiter »
It’s a trick question. What you should be asking yourself is, “How do I create content people love?” Google has advanced to the point where its algorithm has an advanced understanding of searcher intent and content depth. It matches the intent of a searcher’s query with the content that provides the most comprehensive response to… Weiter »
Forget stuffy and sterile. B2B audiences want to talk to a human being.
When people hear I work in marketing, they automatically think of cool designs, public relations events, Snapchat and other trendy pursuits. When I tell them I do marketing for an information technology company, their reactions tend to be less animated. Why? Because when people think of IT, they envision networks, computer viruses, servers and decidedly… Weiter »