Posts tagged with 'content'
I know a lot of people who are great marketers, but when blogging they often worry that they don’t have something which is important or unique enough to share online.
Normally this is at the risk that someone may have said something similar before.
That makes sense in a lot of ways and it is a valid concern which I admit to thinking myself when creating new content, or speaking at an event. Of course you always want to impress by telling people something they don’t know.
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by Kevin Gibbons
22 January 2013 10:49am
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Social media is not the new kid on the block anymore but it's still a growing channel and 2013 will see a number of changes - or so our industry experts think. Brands are starting to realise the importance of this channel and are looking for real numbers to back up the claims of agencies and social media experts.
The continued growth of content will affect how people use and interact with social media and the beands using it. And now that we can collect more specific and individual data through social media, this content will become even more effective.
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by Heather Taylor
21 January 2013 16:45pm
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Google's continuing moves to penalise marketers ‘chasing the algorithm’, and to reward those who produce useful and valuable content, is one of the principal reasons why content marketing has emerged as a hot topic over the past 18 months.
The majority of marketers surveyed in our Content Marketing Survey Report (produced in associated with Outbrain) agreed with the statement that “Content marketing is becoming its own discipline, like SEO or email marketing”.
The question remains to be seen as to how content marketing and SEO will change, integrate and evolve over time, with some predicting the demise of SEO and others insisting that it will remain as its own discipline.
To find out more, and following last week's post on the expert view on content marketing, we asked a selection of marketers how they "see the relationship between content marketing and SEO evolving over the next few months?” Their answers, some of which do conflict, are below…
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by Andrew Warren-Payne
21 January 2013 10:42am
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Since the launch of our Content Marketing Survey Report, produced in association with Outbrain, the topic has continued to fuel discussion throughout the industry, as brands struggle for the attention of consumers and marketers find it ever more difficult to reach the top of the search engines.
As 2013 begins, we asked a series of marketers for their thoughts on where content marketing is going and what brands and publishers have been doing particularly well.
Their insights are below, along with some video shot by Outbrain at the launch of the Content Marketing Survey Report late last year.
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by Andrew Warren-Payne
14 January 2013 11:28am
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As companies begin to look at inhouse content creation, the lines have blurred between traditional publishing and brand publishing. It's not enough to put out sub-standard content or rely on media outlets to tell brand stories.
While companies move into the publishing space, what will happen to this long standing industry?
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by Heather Taylor
12 January 2013 16:45pm
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If you need to create a social media marketing plan for your business in 2013 you'll be smart to cut these three strategies completely out of your budget, providing they meet these "tough love" performance criteria.
This is the year when content marketing and social media focuses like a laser on leads and sales. Or else.
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by Jeff Molander
08 January 2013 16:24pm
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At a publisher, you normally think about content strategy in a way that delivers growth, engaged audience kind of growth.
Content strategy is about more than that, but I want to address the issue of building audience, since that’s what a lot of people will be aiming to do with their content strategy during 2013.
I’ve worked on a number of large sites, and I normally see the same issues to begin with – get these issues right, and engaged audiences often grow.
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by James Carson
13 December 2012 10:48am
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Marketing has taken another large turn in its evolution cycle during 2012. The growth of digital and social, the maturing nature of search marketing, and the growth and relationship with content marketing opens up more opportunity for the CMO.
However, with it comes a certain level of complexity when looking at how to structure, attribute, and measure marketing campaigns across your organization.
I have been working with CMOs and CEOs for the past 10 years and suffice to say every marketer has their own model. Some are traditional, others digitally focused, some are brand and product focused, and others are pure content marketers or SEO consultants.
The common challenge they all face is attribution in a multitude of formats.
Attribution is not just an apt term to describe digital marketing interaction.
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by Andy Betts
12 December 2012 11:11am
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In my last post, I claimed you were one employee away from a successful site. I suggested that the employee was an editor-in-chief.
A person who would oversee your online presence, set its direction, implement its roadmap and ensure its quality.
So what makes a great online editor?
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by Paul Boag
05 December 2012 10:35am
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This is a quick post with some key takeaways from one of Econsultancy’s smaller conferences, Digital Shorts.
The theme of the day was content marketing, a hot topic and a phrase that ‘isn’t as well defined in the U.K. as it is in the U.S.’ according to Econsultancy guest blogger Kevin Gibbons, UK MD of BlueGlass.
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by Ben Davis
03 December 2012 12:20pm
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