That question comes from Andy Harrington, head of sales and marketing at US Hose Corporation. By asking the best question in my competition, Andy has won a copy of Sally Hogshead’s book How the World Sees You. Andy, thanks for inviting me to imagine the future of social media! The big social media incumbents, Facebook, YouTube, Linked …
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When you market complex products, it’s tempting to address customers with multiple messages. You may want to deliver 3 or 5 or 7 main messages on your website and in your content marketing. Here’s the catch: multiple messages just don’t work. That’s because your audience can only process one message at a time. Communicating more …
Every marketer can learn a lot from Content Inc., Joe Pulizzi’s new book on content marketing. The book advances one Big Idea: Most start-ups fail because old business models simply don’t work anymore. The new business model in Content Inc. is to build your audience first, and define your products and services second. As founder …
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Lessons about content marketing. As I analyze the content you shared most on social media over the past year, I’m learning a lot from you. Thanks! You taught me 2 big lessons in 2015. 1.) You really like to share pithy content, such as: CM World boiled down to 3 charts and 10 quotes. The …
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My new article “Strategic content marketing educates customers and opens their wallets” appears on the Global Telecoms Business website. Here’s an excerpt on changes in the BtoB buying process from that article. The buying process is now two-thirds online, one-third sales. About 67% of the buying process takes place digitally, says Sirius Decisions. Rather than spend time with …
Big data is all about getting better answers for marketing, much faster. Telecoms operators must take 5 steps to find the gold nuggets hidden in their big data. George Stenitzer writes on marketing for Global Telecoms Business. Contact Us
