How to Create People-Powered Content That Works for Your Brand
B2C companies currently spend about a quarter of their budget on content marketing and 60% have plans to increase those budgets next year. How do you, the brand, tap into your customer’s social stream? The answer is simple: People-powered content.
Why Gamification Works: How Brands are Marketing With Fun
One of the many things I absolutely love about my job at GroupHigh is that I get to talk to PR and marketing professionals on a daily basis. I soak up everything that they’re doing so I can share it with my readers. Something I’m seeing a shift toward—which I love—is a movement in marketing […]
5 Bad Marketing Habits Made Worse by the Internet
It’s easy for us web marketers to look down on traditional marketers, and how they “just don’t get it.” It’s not about hitting people over the head anymore; it’s about drawing them in. It’s about convincing them to want your messages, to habitually train them to trust what you have to say. And then there […]
21 Quotes That Will Change the Way You Think About Marketing
I am delighted to announce that my new book Youtility debuted at #3 on the New York Times best seller list! One million thank yous to everyone who supported the book and the launch, especially the brilliant businesspeople who agreed to be interviewed for the book. Youtility is chock full of case studies and ideas, […]
Creating Social Substance: Talkable & Useful Content
Creating outstanding content marketing programs requires social substance. Your content must be useful and worthy of chatter.
Planning Your Content Marketing: Bricks vs. Feathers
Do you remember this trick question from grade school: Which weighs more – 5 lbs of bricks or 5 lbs of feathers? Some of us (self included) were initially fooled by this obvious test of common sense, but as it relates to your content marketing, should you be focused more on building substantial content productions […]