Content marketing is online reputation management. Registering all your brand and personal domain names is online reputation management. Registering, populating, maintaining, and updating all your brand and personal social media…
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Your content marketing must sell solutions, not stuff
I’ve written in the past about the importance of selling solutions rather than stuff, but it’s an idea worth diving into from another angle. Said in another way, to be…
Read MoreThe untapped potential of video for sales enablement
“Tech Providers Will Pay Far More Attention to Sales Enablement” was one of “10 Fearless Predictions for B2B Tech Sales and Marketing in 2017” from Gartner technology marketing analyst Todd…
Read More3 hacks of agile scrum for content design
I was gratified in a nostalgic way to read articles by my friends and former colleagues Sol Sender and Charles Chesnut, writing about the challenges of adopting agile. I was…
Read MoreThe limits of content marketing
As you’ve no doubt guessed, I’m a huge fan of content marketing. But unless you’re a content marketing “fanboy” who’s blind to reality, you have to recognize the practice’s limitations….
Read MoreThe three hard parts of manually tagging subjects on your web pages
Everyone loves faceted search–drilling down on your search results by selecting filters. We all use it in eCommerce to pick colors and prices, but we also are starting to see…
Read MoreKeyword Knowledge Graphs: Using AI to Create Outside-In Taxonomies
We’ve changed our webinars to live expert interviews. For our first one, Mike talked with James Mathewson, the program director of content marketing platforms at IBM. James writes frequently about…
Read MoreOn the limits of personalization
Before I start my post, I’d also like to invite you to the next Biznology webinar on May 1 where Mike Moran is going to interview me about keyword knowledge…
Read MoreBusiness video trends worth noting in 2018
If you’re calculating, or recalculating, this year’s video content marketing strategy, Vidyard’s 2017 Video in Business Benchmark Report suggests some practical business video trends worth your attention. The report’s insights are…
Read MoreBranding can help local businesses avoid the “growth trap”
Local businesses have a very pragmatic attitude about branding: they ignore it. Many of them are more worried about meeting payroll, making rent, paying taxes, and other cash crises than…
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