Last fall, OpenView Venture Partners invited Joe Pulizzi and a few other content marketing experts to organize a workshop on content marketing for our portfolio companies.  Our portfolio companies weren’t the only ones taking notes.  After hearing the experts, we were sold.  We jumped right into a content...

This cost of content marketing post was inspired by Kate Headen Waddell’s post entitled Pay Peanuts Get Monkeys. At least one time per day, every day for three years, someone emails us at Junta42 or submits a project looking for a content vendor wondering how much content marketing (both print...

As content marketing takes off in the B2B world, more and more brands will be building significant content libraries. That’s fantastic but it does create new challenges for the content marketer. In the early days of content marketing, we were all focused on one piece at a time. Write an e-book, promote...

Finding the right tone and voice for your audience isn’t always easy. Sometimes, finding an analogy, a case study or even a local reference that will engage your audience can mean the difference between an effective piece of content and just another article. That’s where a deep understanding of your...

Before I launched my business, I read the Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin.  It was and is invaluable. Every year or so, I dig it out of the file folders and re-read it.  I always find something new…something I didn’t realize the last time through. But every time, this is the statement...

If you believe that your prospects don’t want to receive email from you, then you are missing a huge opportunity. HubSpot looked at data from 605 business blogs and found that they got 12 times more email subscribers than RSS subscribers on average. What your prospects don’t want is promotional...

As part of your content strategy, are you targeting the US Hispanic market? If so, you no doubt know that this is an increasingly complex market – yet one that is growing. The so-called “US Hispanic Market” is currently measured by ad spending in Spanish-language media, to the tune of $4 Billion+ in...

As a blogger, do you know you face the same challenge Ringo Starr faces every time he decides to tour? Ringo always needs more content for his shows. And you always need more content for your blog. Sure, Ringo had a few hits. But does he have enough hits for an entire show? Um, no. So what does he do? Ringo...

If you are assessing your marketing efforts and investigating ways to transform your approach to attract today’s more savvy B2B buyers, undoubtedly you have run into the term content marketing. (You found the Content Marketing Institute, right?) In almost every introduction to content marketing, you...

The lifespan of a mayfly is anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours. Most online content suffers a similar fate. But, content marketing online, when done properly, will have a lasting impact.  It will continue to reap dividends for your organization far into the future.Continue reading

In the world of custom publishing, there are no second chances. If you’re publishing an article online, you have fewer than five seconds to make an impression; with a print or digital magazine, you may have a bit more time, but not much. Considering the amount of time you have to capture someone’s attention,...

As a content marketer, you want to dive in and start work immediately. You know it’s best to lock in a brand position but you wonder: is this so important? Consider: would you build a skyscraper with no blueprint or do a heart by-pass with no diagnosis? Here’s the story of one Chicago-based private-equity...