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The Trouble With Content Marketing

The Trouble With Content Marketing | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Content marketing is everything. It's nothing. It's substantial like rock. It's fleeting like the wind. It's both sides of the brain in perfect harmony. It's the brand story. It's the value proposition shown, not told. In other words, it's a tactic with an identity crisis.

 

Teeehe Content Marketing Institute itself is proud to stack up no fewer than 21 explanations of this burgeoning field, plus six more definitions on another page on its site. I say this not to ridicule, but to highlight the confusion in the marketplace about content marketing. There's not a broadly agreed-upon definition of the field....


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Content marketing has an identity crisis. Here's why (and how to resolve it).

Andrea Rossi's curator insight, March 11, 2016 2:25 AM

Don't you love my great title? 

 

Ok, it's confusing but trust me, this article is not and makes a good job at explaining a simple but often misunderstood truth on content marketing: the intent is important. 

 

Publishing content randomly won't help your brand or company at all. It's publishing content that adds value to your audience and brings it close to your brand or a buying decision.

 

So not all content is created equal.

Dominique Mas's curator insight, March 13, 2016 12:18 PM

Content marketing has an identity crisis. Here's why (and how to resolve it).

Andrew Orvis's curator insight, March 19, 2016 6:24 PM

Don't you love my great title? 

 

Ok, it's confusing but trust me, this article is not and makes a good job at explaining a simple but often misunderstood truth on content marketing: the intent is important. 

 

Publishing content randomly won't help your brand or company at all. It's publishing content that adds value to your audience and brings it close to your brand or a buying decision.

 

So not all content is created equal.

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How to Use Medium: The Complete Guide for Marketers

How to Use Medium: The Complete Guide for Marketers | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Growth hacks, how-tos, and a complete overview on how to use medium for your digital marketing strategy and blogging.
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B2B Inbound Marketing: Top Tactics, Goals, and Challenges

B2B Inbound Marketing: Top Tactics, Goals, and Challenges | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Marketing Strategy - Only 27% of B2B leaders say their inbound marketing efforts are very successful in helping to achieve important objectives, according to a recent report from NetProspex and Ascend2.
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"Content creation is rated as both the most effective inbound tactic and the most difficult to execute."

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Where the Heck to Start with Reddit Marketing: A 5 Step Guide

Where the Heck to Start with Reddit Marketing: A 5 Step Guide | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
The secret to reddit marketing is to use it as a community management tool first and content marketing tool second. Here's how to get started.
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How to Build an Unbeatable Content Marketing Plan

How to Build an Unbeatable Content Marketing Plan | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Have a content marketing plan for 2015 yet? Here's how you can put one together.

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malek's curator insight, January 7, 2015 9:03 AM

tons of options out there for content you can create. Forty four content types are outlined below, so look through the list and see which ones would make a perfect fit in your marketing plan.

Marco Favero's curator insight, January 7, 2015 5:19 PM

aggiungi la tua intuizione ...

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Content marketers miss the point | Graham Jones

Content marketers miss the point | Graham Jones | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Content marketers appear to think that the word content is equivalent to the word article. It is not, there is so much more to content than articles.
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Jones also misses a major point. When he says people want "content in a myriad of forms – articles, yes, but also they want items in print, they want online lectures, they want ebooks, podcasts and more", he forgets one very important factor: We are not after "people", we are after a target market. So, really, the first thing to address is what kind(s) of content does your target market want?

John Schwartz's curator insight, November 27, 2013 6:10 PM

Spot on!  You need more than words on a web page to keep a visitor's attention these days.  Smart online marketers use images, video, audio, interactive forms, and more to engage visitors.  Text-heavy pages are boring to most web surfers now.  Engage or sink.

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Weekly Reads – Without the Right Audience Good Content Doesn’t Matter

Weekly Reads – Without the Right Audience Good Content Doesn’t Matter | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Many of us spend our days brainstorming, formulating and deliberating how we can create the best content for our brands or organizations. But we spend much less time focusing on the audiences that will be consuming those great content ideas. It’s not so much the number of followers we have on each of our platforms, but whether or not they are the right followers.

Deanna Dahlsad's insight:

A link round up to illustrate the point about "the right audience" in terms of social media. However, this does not address how organic SEO, i.e. well written content, helps bring the right audience by meeting the needs of those searching.

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Content Marketing & Curation Becoming Important For B2C and B2B Says New Content Marketing Institute Study

Content Marketing & Curation Becoming Important For B2C and B2B Says New Content Marketing Institute Study | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) have followed up their study of B2B content marketing trends with research into the emerging trends in the B2C

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I'm still not convinced that curation is all that new or different than blogging or other online publishing activities. (Blogging is not dead.) Nor am I convinced it is the most important thing you can do in terms of marketing. (And just because "everyone is doing it" doesn't sway me either; like momma always said about if so & so jumped off a bridge...) But I don't think curation can be overlooked much longer. Curation needs to be evaluated for several major factors:


a) can it fit within your scope (Do you have the time & skill set? Can you do this in house or should you hire?)


b) purpose (to maintain existing clients/customers, to reach new ones?)


b) where would it fit? (Not all curation sites are the same; some are more suitable for products, brands, B2B or B2C reach, demographics, etc.)

Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight, October 15, 2013 4:59 PM

I'm still not convinced that curation is all that new or different than blogging or other online publishing activities. (Blogging is not dead.) Nor am I convinced it is the most important thing you can do in terms of marketing. (And just because "everyone is doing it" doesn't sway me either; like momma always said about if so & so jumped off a bridge...) But I don't think curation can be overlooked much longer. Curation needs to be evaluated for several major factors:


a) can it fit within your scope (Do you have the time & skill set? Can you do this in house or should you hire?)


b) purpose (to maintain existing clients/customers, to reach new ones?)


b) where would it fit? (Not all curation sites are the same; some are more suitable for products, brands, B2B or B2C reach, demographics, etc.)

Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight, October 15, 2013 5:00 PM

I'm still not convinced that curation is all that new or different than blogging or other online publishing activities. (Blogging is not dead.) Nor am I convinced it is the most important thing you can do in terms of marketing. (And just because "everyone is doing it" doesn't sway me either; like momma always said about if so & so jumped off a bridge...) But I don't think curation can be overlooked much longer. Curation needs to be evaluated for several major factors:


a) can it fit within your scope (Do you have the time & skill set? Can you do this in house or should you hire?)


b) purpose (to maintain existing clients/customers, to reach new ones?)


b) where would it fit? (Not all curation sites are the same; some are more suitable for products, brands, B2B or B2C reach, demographics, etc.)

Alessandro Rea's curator insight, October 17, 2013 5:28 AM

While B2B marketers are beginning to adopt B2C best practices when it comes to e-commerce, B2B marketers have traditionally invested more of their budgets into content marketing than their B2C counterparts, making it interesting to see how both sides measure up in this rapidly-growing area. There are many more similarities than one might expect.

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17 Types of Content That Google Will Eat Up

17 Types of Content That Google Will Eat Up | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Content - Just what the title says... along with an infographic and a host of examples, illustrations, and explanations.

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Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight, February 22, 2013 9:44 PM

I think most of the items on this list are known (if somewhat debatable), but reading the reasoning may help some to identify which sort of content best fits their audience &/or business model.

Marco Bertolini's curator insight, February 23, 2013 2:51 AM

L'ogre Google avale tout.  Mais privilégie certains contenus : interviews, débats, listes, contenus régulièrement mis à jour, etc.  A vous d'en tenir compte si vous voulez apparaître dans les résultats !

Patrizia Bertini's curator insight, February 23, 2013 11:34 AM

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