Even if it’s not the buzzword it was a few years ago, the concept of big data — unstructured information that was increasing in velocity, volume and variety — caused many companies to think about how it could change the way they operate. That said, a lot of the biggest use cases vendors, consultants and […]
You’ve seen the news, and you know that technology is taking people’s jobs at factories, fast food restaurants, and more. Is your B2B career next? According to McKinsey Global Institute’s latest report, “Jobs lost, jobs gained: Workforce transitions in a time of automation”: “Automation and AI will lift productivity and economic growth, but millions of […]
B2B marketers need to stop relying on gated PDFs to white papers and ebooks if they’re serious about lead generation, experts told The Content Experience event in Toronto this week. The two-day conference, which is produced by Uberflip, offered a deep dive into many approaches to creating assets to drive awareness and purchases, but there […]
Peter Drucker said everything is either marketing or innovation. With digital, the new saying could be that all marketing is content. And it’s not just marketing. We marketers are actually late to the game. Think about the amount of content being created for training, education and HR (as in best practices, not employees) that goes […]
When you’re a small company, it can be hard to get noticed. Often you simply don’t have the budget to make a big splash. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. There are a lot of public relations (PR) tools out there that can really help you out. You just need to know where to look. […]
Outsourcing content can help to make companies, like those in B2B, more versatile; getting the work done as necessary without having to directly employ staff. There are plenty of companies that can help with outsourcing. Some specialise in stock photos, others in videos. Some provide copywriting services and others provide infographics. They all work slightly […]
Imagine a US football team on the field without a quarterback. That’s what it’s like to be marketing and communicating online without a social community. The role that social communities can play in the marketing and communications process is woefully misunderstood. Many corporate community efforts tend to focus on community for one of three reasons: […]
I wrote a primer about content marketing (coming Tuesday this week) for people who may not understand… well… content marketing. It seems the whole thing just raised another question, “what is content?” Don’t feel foolish, everyone has a different point of view. Is it a white paper? Is it an ad in a magazine? So, […]
Marketo’s Marketing Nation Online conference (#mktgnation) was on Wednesday. There are two things I love about this conference 1) it’s free 2) it’s online. I don’t need to spend hours traveling somewhere, and I can still pick and choose agenda items that mean something to me. It was all about strategy for me, as I […]
The start of summer in Hollywood is the start of pilot season. That’s when hundreds of writers and producers pitch new TV show ideas to the major studios. It’s also a great example of the minimum viable product idea, made famous by Eric Ries in his book, The Lean Startup. During pilot season studio execs […]
It’s one thing to write and publish great content, but if no one’s reading it, there’s no point doing it. That’s where content curation comes in. Sharing content by others in turn gets your content shared to a wider audience. It also gives you new ideas on content to create, and keeps your finger on […]
Last week Aerosmith performed a private concert next to my office at Petco Park for the IT convention Cisco Live. Sadly the stage faced away from our windows, so I wasn’t able to watch the performance, until I discovered Periscope. Periscope is a live streaming app that allows concertgoers to live stream video from their […]
What’s the number one worry on the minds of CMOs in the digital age? Fear of losing ground, of falling behind in digital savviness, of becoming irrelevant. No marketing executive ever wants to hear anyone say, “Sorry, but what you’re offering just isn’t relevant anymore.” Social and mobile are the air we breathe these days. Brand […]
Today’s marketers have access to a lot of data about their audience, everything from personal information, online shopping preferences, time spent on websites, the locations they’ve been to, where they work, and more. The information is being logged somewhere, by someone, and it’s all there for marketers to use. Yet with so much data available, […]
Content marketing has been all the rage in marketing circles for the last several years, and B2B marketers are wholeheartedly subscribing to that newsletter. More corporate B2B blogs are popping up than ever before, and B2B hashtags are starting to make in-roads on various social media platforms. Yet B2B marketers are still having trouble executing […]
The Yellow Pages is going through a major restructuring after it renamed itself YP in 2012. Part of that rebranding includes a content strategy and a marketing campaign called “Make Every Day Local.” As reported by Digiday, this campaign “featuring videos of news, sports and TV personalities including ESPN’s Hannah Storm and reality stars Bill and […]
What kind of traction is your current marketing content getting? Tons of shares, visits, and comments? Great! Very little of anything? You’re not alone. B2B marketers often spend a lot of time creating great content that provides hefty value to readers. Yet it’s easy to forget that you’ve got to deliver that valuable content to an audience […]
We use our laptops and mobile phones every day to communicate with our friends, family, and coworkers. But how do programs communicate with each other? APIs, or “Application Programming Interfaces,” are the hidden backbone of our modern world which allows software programs to communicate with one another. Although most of us don’t know it, behind […]
Every day sees the publication of more than 2.5 million blog posts and half a billion Tweets. And do you know that Google has indexed 200 terabytes of data since its launch? Companies and marketers that only focus on content creation add to that noise. So, unless they already have a large community of followers […]
Google’s Panda algorithm has changed the game for digital marketers. Where once “SEO” was the buzzword of the day, “content strategy” now reigns supreme. With the recent release of Panda 4.1, content is — or should be — the prime focus of every small and mid-sized business’s marketing efforts in 2015. If you are among […]
