Doesn’t it seem like attention is getting a lot of, well, attention? Every day you see new strategies to increase the attention we receive from our audiences and buyers. You have “attention marketing,” a term describing a business model built around the hyper growth of social media. There is the “attention economy,” which elevates the […]
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Before breakfast, I check my Facebook and LinkedIn newsfeeds for a quick synopsis of the day. As I jump in the shower, I hit “download” on a recommended movie on Netflix, knowing I have a long flight this evening. While wolfing down my cereal, I click once to buy a gift for a friend’s birthday
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Almost 60 years ago, Peter Drucker coined the term “knowledge workers,” saying that a new generation of professionals and their productivity would become “the most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business.” Unlike the previous century’s most valuable assets – production equipment – this century’s assets would be human, he said. Institutions
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Content marketing ROI can be a fuzzy subject. It’s long-term focus and indirect nature can make it difficult to connect the costs to revenues for a business. That causes a lot of people to undervalue content marketing or write it off as a waste of resources. They have a hard time spending the time and
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When we launched the adidas content hub, www.GamePlan-A.com, in May 2016, we put culture at the core of our content marketing strategy. The goal of this venture is to engage employees and attract the right talent and build relationships with like-minded people (be they internal or external) who have a cultural background compatible to our
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Anyone involved in the planning, creation, distribution, or measurement of content knows how time consuming and expensive it can be. It doesn’t make sense to simply publish something, promote it, and never look back. That’s a terrible way to get the most from your investment – not to mention that approach often results in a
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Few marketers would admit to valuing quantity over quality—or volume over effectiveness—when it comes to content. And yet for many, their actual output tells a different story. When I interviewed content marketing aficionado Robert Rose last year, he observed how marketers in general have “become so focused on becoming an on-demand vending machine of content
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There’s something to be said for thorough, extensively researched buyer personas. When you’ve taken the time to answer 150 questions about your target customers, there’s no way the content written for them and the way you market to them won’t resonate. The data backs this up. Katie Sweet, writing for IBM’s THINK Marketing blog, shares
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Editor’s note: Andy Vale is a former content manager at Audiense. No matter the business, bold choices often come with big risks. And in television, where shows can easily cost millions to produce and audience reaction can be tough to predict, risk aversion is a high-stakes science. After a career filled with major writing credits
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I’m a big fan of minimalist SEO. Once you have a basic grasp of technical SEO and have your site setup properly, 80-90% of your SEO results will come from creating comprehensive, valuable content. However, if I had to pick one SEO tactic that really makes sense, it would be link building. Backlinks tell Google
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