If you only view LinkedIn as your digital resume and business card collection, you’re missing its most valuable parts that really can help grow your business, expand your content’s audience and improve valuable connections. Discover how Groups, Company and Showcase pages plus its newest app can make your marketing even more successful. Continue reading
5 Spam-Free Steps To Use LinkedIn Groups in Your Content Marketing Strategy
Find the LinkedIn groups that attract your customers and share each of your new blog posts with them. On the surface, it seems like a sound strategy, doesn’t it? Well, there are pros and cons of posting in LinkedIn groups, but it can be a sound way to boost your content marketing efforts. Get 5 steps for using LinkedIn groups in your content marketing strategy. Continue reading
This Week in Content Marketing: Weird Al’s Diabolically Brilliant Strategy
In this episode, Robert and Joe discuss the important implications of LinkedIn’s acquisition of Bizo, congratulate blogger Scott Monty on his recent move from Ford to an agency role, and speculate on what will happen to Forbes now that it’s owned by foreign investors. They also ruminate on the continuing fall of newspaper ad revenue and rave about the marketing genius of Weird Al Yankovic. Continue reading
Content Marketing Momentum Picks Up on Rapidly Evolving Online Channels
In this episode of This Old Marketing, Robert and Joe debate whether or not Google+ is closing its doors, come to grips with the fact that consumers now use the web more than watching television, explore LinkedIn’s latest move to accommodate branded content, and speculate on potential acquisitions that could further the publisher’s goals. Listen in. Continue reading
Content Marketing News: Fresh Tools and Acquisitions
This week, Joe, Robert and some special guests report live from Content Marketing World in Sydney, Australia. The conversation focuses on a new report about sustainable digital business models, LinkedIn’s latest content marketing tools for top brands, the acquisition of Klout by Lithium, and Copyblogger’s controversial decision to remove comments from its blog. Continue reading
LinkedIn’s Content Publishing Flood: 4 Tips for Staying Afloat
LinkedIn’s Influencer program promises great opportunity and exposure for thought leaders. However, if the quality of discussion in many LinkedIn groups is an indication, the platform may soon have a cesspool of substandard stories on its hands. Use these 4 tips to stay afloat in LinkedIn’s content publishing flood. Continue reading
Stop Building Your Branded Content on “Rented Land”
This week, Joe and Robert discuss the LinkedIn job bank fiasco and debate whether or not agencies really can do content marketing well. They also share their thoughts on why marketers shouldn’t publish on “rented land” and offer some critical reviews of Facebook’s algorithm changes, before exploring Patagonia’s content initiative aimed at reducing the adverse impact of its social and environmental footprint. Continue reading
LinkedIn Moves to Dominate Content Publishing
In this week’s PNR podcast, Joe and Robert talk about the big content publishing news that LinkedIn has decided to open its publishing program to all users, discuss BuzzFeed’s advice for content success, explore the implications of Sprinklr’s purchase of Dachis, and share content marketing examples from Toyota and Chevron, before looking at how an early 20th century baking powder company used content to help it rise to the top of the food industry in New Zealand. Continue reading
4 Tips for Native Advertising With LinkedIn Sponsored Updates
LinkedIn’s new Sponsored Updates program is a huge development for content marketers. How can you run your own successful sponsored updates campaign? Find out how it works and what the Content Marketing Institute learned during a trial run. Continue reading
How to Use Social Listening on LinkedIn for Real-Time Publishing
Augmenting a typical content strategy with real-time understanding of trends gives content marketers a huge advantage. To join the conversation, you have to hear what your audience is saying. Find out how to use social listening on LinkedIn to boost your real-time publishing efforts. Continue reading
