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5 Keys to Success with Content Marketing

Here’s a content marketing interview with me conducted by J-P de Clerck.  I like the way J-P summed up the key successes and failures in content marketing for me.  Hope they are helpful. The keys to success in content marketing: Understanding the informational needs of your customers Knowing how...

SEO and content marketing: Creating content with keywords in mind

Thanks to Emily Thompson, online marketing coordinator for Kutenda Online Marketing Software, for this week’s guest post. Couple thoughts I (Joe) had while reading this.  First, you need to understand your brand persona first and foremost when it comes to SEO and content marketing.  In other words,...

Forget the Buyer Persona...What's Your Brand Persona?

I had an excellent podcast interview with Kim Albee from Genoo yesterday (it will be up in a week or so) where we talked in detail about content marketing and authenticity. The first step in being authentic in your content marketing and social media? Understanding who YOU are.  What’s your brand...

Special Report - Content Marketing Spending Continues to Rise

The results are in.  Content marketing spending will rise again in 2010. The 3rd Annual 2010 Junta42 Content Marketing Spending Survey found for the third straight year that marketers will again put significantly more money into content marketing initiatives. Go here for the complete content marketing...

The Year of Content Marketing How

2008 The Year of Content Marketing What – Most marketers never heard the term and didn’t “get” it. Lots of explaining to do. 2009 The Year of Content Marketing Why – Marketers now knew what is was, but needed to convince their teams (and bosses) why it was so important (if...

Does Branded Integration Really Work?

Thanks to Randall Beard, EVP and General Manager – Nielsen, for sharing this week’s guest post… Instead of using your own content marketing to surround and reinforce your brand, what if you put someone else’s TV program content around it instead?  Branded Integrations, done right,...

How Long Should You Spend on Twitter Each Day?

Every speech I give to marketing professionals, I get asked one of two possible questions: How long do you spend on Twitter each day?, or How long should I spend using Twitter each day? Bar none, this is the best response to using Twitter that I have heard – from Guy Kawasaki: Question: How long...

100 Social Media & Content Marketing Predictions - The eBook

Thanks to our good friends at Zmags, we now have a 75-page eBook covering over 100 social media and content marketing predictions for 2010 from the most influential marketers in the world. You can view it here without signup! Last week we released the 100 content marketing predictions for 2010, easily...

Marketing Shoelaces

No one seems exactly sure when, but shoelaces became popular sometime in the 20th century to better tighten shoes, replacing buckles and buttons (which were slow and cumbersome). Shoelaces are odd to me.  The technology exists today that we can manufacture any type of shoe, dress, casual or sport, without...

100 Social Media & Content Marketing Predictions for 2010

Some things amaze me, like this year’s social media and content marketing predictions list.  What does one sent email and two tweets equal?  Over 100 predictions from 60+ of the best and the brightest in marketing, content marketing, custom publishing and social media.  No kidding!  Just check...

Why Print isn't going anywhere for a long, long time...

We’ll be here someday with electronic, but this makes the case for why print is still an essential tool for most of us.  Enjoy!

Crowdsourcing Content Marketing – Oxymoron or Killer App?

Thanks to Rick Liebling, a long-time Junta42 supporter, for this provocative guest post.  Connect with Rick @eyecube. While those of us who are believers in Content Marketing have been diligently spreading the word, proponents of crowdsourcing have been screaming from the rooftops with all the subtlety...