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Video Content Marketing: Are You A Super Star?
YouTube has passed over a billion unique users every month, that’s almost one out of every two Internet users. Further, all of Ad Age’s Top 100 brands now run campaigns on YouTube despite the fact marketers consider video content difficult and expensive to create. So what do the top brands know about video content that you don’t? Includes 8 charts and marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Android, Content Marketing Institute, Conviva, Gen C, Generation C, google+, iOS, MarketingProfs, Mobile, Nielsen, Research, Sharethrough, smartphone, Tablet, Video, YouTube
Content Curation: 12 Ways To Add Value
While automated content curation offers a possible solution to the growing problem of producing sufficient quality content, it misses a critical point. To be done properly, content curation requires the added value that only humans can provide to convert curated information into quality content that supports your business objectives. Here are twelve ways to enhance the value of your content curation to ensure that it yields the optimal results to achieve your business goals. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
B2B Versus B2C Content Marketing [Research]
Fueling social media growth and search optimization, content marketing is on a growth trajectory. Many marketers think content marketing is either B2B or B2C but as Heather Meza of Cisco pointed out, “Content marketing isn’t B2C or B2B, it’s P2P.”Take a look at five of the significant elements of content marketing strategy as used by B2B and B2C marketers, you’ll find their approaches are strikingly similar. That’s why it makes sense to think of content marketing as people-to-people. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
10 B2C Content Marketing Tactics You Need Now [Research / Charts]
As content marketing continues to expand and evolve, it’s increasingly used by B2C marketers to achieve core business objectives.
According to 2013 B2C Content Marketing Research by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, B2C marketers use content marketing to retain customers and build loyalty, acquire new customers, and increase brand awareness. Although the underlying intent of these goals is to increase sales, shorter term they all involve engagement, a strong point of social media. Here are ten tactics you need to consider with research charts and analysis. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Your Prospects Think Marketing Is B.S. [& What to Do About It]
Forget the Mad Men. More than half of consumers believe that “most marketing is a bunch of B.S.” according to recent Adobe research. Less than one in seven considers marketing, advertising or PR to be of value to society. Before you abandon your marketing plans and your career, examine this research and you’ll find the case for promotion-free content marketing. Includes research and tactics. [Charts] Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.
Content Marketing: 7 Tactics B2B Marketers Must Have NOW [Based On Research]
Content marketing, the provision of high quality, relevant and valuable information that’s not promotional, particularly among B2B marketers continues to increase. 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing according to recent research by Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs. Here are seven content marketing tactics based on this research. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Feeding The Content Marketing Beast – 7 Places to Find Cheap Content
What’s your biggest content marketing challenge? For one out of five marketers it’s producing sufficient content and for another one out of five marketers it’s having enough budget to cover the cost of content marketing according to Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs’ September 2011 research. So what’s a marketer to do? While short term you may be able the shift budget and resources from other marketing and communications, chances are you’ll still need more content and budget since content marketing thrives on being replenished. As a marketer, here are seven places where you can find cheap content to keep feeding the content marketing beast.
21 Content Marketing Definitions
Content marketing is grounded in the Mad Men’s principles. Content marketing takes it’s cue from David Ogilvy in that it looks like editorial. Following the teachings of Leo Burnett, content marketing integrates important brand attributes. Content marketing provides prospects, customers and the public with useful information, while shopping or after purchase, without shouting its promotional messages. As a result, content marketing breaks through the advertising clutter that consumers no longer trust. Here’s how twenty-one marketers define content marketing.
Tags: Ann Handley, Ann Holland, Anna Maria Virzi, Arment Dietrich, Barry Graubart, CC Chapman, ClickZ, content marketing, Content Marketing for Dummies, Content Marketing How to THink LIke a Publisher, Content Marketing Institute, Content Matters, Content Rules, Dan Bergeron, Dan Blank, David Meerman Scott, David Ogilvy, Definition, Healthcare Chaplaincy, Heidi Cohen, Jason Falls, Jim Siegel, Joe Pulizzi, Keith Blanchard, Kelly Hungerford, KeySplash Creative, Lee Odden, Leo BUrnett, Likeable Media, Lisa Gerber, Marketing Profs, Mass Relevance, Online Marketing Blog, Paper.il, Rebecca Lieb, Sam Decker, Social Media Explorer, Spin Sucks, Story Worldwide, Susan Gunelius, Which test won, WIlliam J. ward
30 Social Media Definitions
The definition of social media continues to evolve as the platforms and technologies continue to change and expand. Here are thirty social media definitions to help clarify these trends. What would you add to this list?
Tags: Adam Kleinberg, Angie Schottmuller, Ann Handley, Arment Dietrich, Augustine Fou, Barn Raisers, Blue Focus Marketing, Bryan Eisenberg, Cheryl Burgess, Chris Garrett, Clayman Advertising, Content Marketing Institute, Dave Kerpen, Deborah Weinstein, eMetrics, Gini Dietrich, HARO, Heidi Cohen, Howard Greenstein, Jim Sterne, Joe Cothrel, Joe Pulizzi, Lee Odden, Likeable Media, Lisa Buyer, Lithium Technologies, Liz Strauss, Marjorie Clayman, Mark W. Schaefer, Marketing Sciences Consulting Group, MarketingProfs, Mass Relevance, Michelle Chmielewski, Online Marketing Blog, Peter Shankman, Pressfeed, Rebecca Lieb, Riverside Marketing Strategies, Rob Petersen, Sally Fallow, Sam Decker, Sarach Hofstetter, SOBcon, Social Media Club, Strategic Objectives, Synthesio, The Buyer Group, Traction, Trey Pennington, Wikipedia
12 Suggestions to Overcome Blank Blog Post Syndrome
Experiencing blank-page inertia? Here are 12 ideas to help you jump start your writing. Additionally, insights into how to capture your fleeting thoughts and develop them into well crafted columns are included.
