Pawan Deshpande
Pawan Deshpande is the founder and CEO of Curata, a Boston-based company offering content marketing software used by thousands of marketers around the world. He spearheaded the first-ever panel at SxSW on Content Marketing in 2011, and was a 2014 Finalist for MarketingProfs B2B Marketer of the Year. Pawan was an engineer at Microsoft and Google where he was awarded patents in social networking and machine learning. He previously attended MIT where his graduate thesis won top departmental and international awards. You can contact Pawan via Twitter @TweetsFromPawan or on LinkedIn. Interested in the state of the content marketing industry in 2016? Download Curata's 2016 Content Marketing Staffing & Tactics Study.
Stories By Pawan Deshpande
Marketing Attribution Model: A Primer for Content Marketers
February 10, 2017
Marketing attribution models enable content marketers to more accurately understand how their content is influencing buyers, and to get full credit for their work. Learn the kinds of models and which one is best for your company.
10 Interview Questions to Find the Best Content Marketers
August 21, 2016
How do you go about finding the right content marketing specialist? Here are three critical core competencies for all levels, along with 10 interview questions you can ask to determine candidates’ proficiency.
Metrics Made Easy: 8 Easy-to-Use Categories and A Dozen Tools
October 7, 2015
Before diving deep into metrics, ask “What do we want our content marketing to achieve?” Is it about reader consumption, sales funnel numbers, or something else? To help you, follow this easy-to-understand metric-categories framework.
8 Metrics to Conquer a Content Marketer's Fear of Measurement
November 23, 2014
With so many metrics for content marketing and even more tools to measure them, how do you know what to do? This framework covers eight types of metrics. It’s broken down by channel, so you can get specific examples of each metric.
The Content Marketing Pyramid: Create More With Less
August 24, 2014
These days, content marketing teams are expected to create content in all shapes and sizes. Trying to keep up with the seemingly insatiable demand, team members often can feel overwhelmed and stretched too thin. But it doesn't have to be that way. Find out how implementing the Content Marketing Pyramid can help you create more with less.
Is Your Content Curation Ethical? A 10-Step Checklist
November 22, 2013
Curation is nothing new, but online content curation is still in its early stages. Many content marketers are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. If you're in this group, use this 10-step checklist as a guide.
Content Curation: 6 Strategies to Add Value With Your Own Commentary
September 24, 2013
Content curation is a great tactic for promoting your thought leadership — but only if the audience can clearly distinguish your insight from that of your source material. Use these 6 strategies to add value to curated content with your own commentary.
5 Tips Every Content Curator Needs to Write Better Calls to Action
July 17, 2013
Though calls to action are often neglected, these simple, yet targeted, phrases are directly responsible for encouraging your audience to take a next step toward becoming a loyal customer. To give them the attention they deserve, use these 5 tips every content curator needs to write better CTAs.
4 Content Curation Tips You Can Take from Brand Success Stories
February 27, 2013
Marketers still struggle to visualize and understand best practices for the technique of curation. Here are 4 content curation tips you can take from brand success stories.
14 Sources for Content Curation Inspiration
December 6, 2012
Increasingly, marketers are employing content curation -- the process of finding, organizing and sharing third-party content -- as a part of their content marketing efforts. Sample these 14 sources for content curation inspiration.
7 Ways to Organize Your Content for Curation
September 19, 2012
Whether you are curating or creating content as a part of your strategy, how you organize content plays a powerful role. Here, we take a look at a few outstanding examples of how content marketers manage the organization process.
8 Ideas for Feeding Your Content Beast
July 18, 2012
If you're involved in content marketing, you're familiar with the voracious content beast. It will eat practically anything, but as soon as you feed it, it's hungry again. Here are 8 ideas for feeding your content beast.
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