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The Pros and Cons of User-Generated Content

  Thanks to Dara Solomon, Community Manager at FunAdvice.com, for putting this timely piece together on user-generated content. More and more, marketers are asking how or if user-generated content should fit into their overall content marketing strategy. Dara provides a good overview below to help...

10 Corporate Blogging Tips and Strategies

Ambal from Click Documents asked me if I had any tips/strategies for corporate blogging.  The presentation below is a corporate blogging basics presentation useful for beginning bloggers.  That said, here are the main takeaways.  For more indepth understanding of a content marketing strategy, this content...

Top 10 Twitter Basics Questions Answered

Just about every day I answer a question about using Twitter, the microblogging tool. I’ve put them together in this handy post.  Enjoy, and, if you like getting information on content marketing, feel free to follow me @juntajoe. Question #1 What is the easiest way to find someone’s @ name?...

Custom Print Magazines - Why Can't MasterCard Produce Inc. Magazine?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been reading more print magazines lately.  Seems odd at first, but in a way, it makes perfect sense. I spend most of my business day and night on the computer. When I’m on my computer, I need to get things done. But when I want to relax and engage in...

Less of Me, More of You - A Stella Pop Content Marketing Video

Big thanks to Mike O’Grady at Stella Pop for putting out the latest edition of eVidmagazine featuring yours truly.   Although Mike was originally thinking a two or three minute video interview, he decided that the video worked best as a 10 minute segment.  Hey, he’s the expert,...

Personal Branding Success in 15 Steps

Dan Schawbel has put together a first-rate magazine about personal branding called (of course) Personal Branding Magazine. The latest issue includes an article from yours truly, which I’ve included below.  I also included one of my PowerPoint presentations when I do in-person workshops on...

Why Content Marketing? - The Video

Gijs Daemen from Merge Media, a Netherlands-based content marketing shop, did a bang-up job putting this video together on content marketing. The original presentation was directed to his customers in the Netherlands. Questions I answer in the video: What is Content Marketing? Why Content Marketing? ...

Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) on Content Marketing and Growing Your Business

Gary Vaynerchuck, author of the new book Crush it! and the popular Wine Library TV (where he gets over 100,000 viewers a day), was kind enough to put this video together on content marketing for the Junta42 audience. Thanks Gary! A quick overview: Most important message to his followers: Patience. It...

Creating Consistent Content - A Content Marketing Plan

The following is a guest post courtesy of Russell Sparkman from Fusionspark Media, a new media communications company based in Washington state. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Russell on a number of projects, most recently their amazingly successful New Media 2012 conference. As you will...

Content Marketing / Custom Publishing Research - Marketers Telling the Story

Really interesting study on content marketing and custom publishing research led by King Fish Media with help from Hubspot, Upshot and Junta42. (Note: the study requires name and email to download and the 20-page eBook can be downloaded here). Here are the highlights from the 189 marketing professionals...

The 4 Step Content Strategy Program - Content Strategy Simplified

Let's face it.  Content strategy is not easy.  Actually, it's pretty difficult. Those that regularly read this blog know I've been covering it more recently: Content Strategy Comes Before Social Media 20 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Content Marketing Project The B.E.S.T....

Help Me Help You - Spend Content Marketing Money

Well, first the bad news. After months of trying to work this out, the winner of Junta42’s $4200 in 42 Days Contest, 48HourPrint, decided not to move forward with their project. (for those of you who don’t remember, every project match that went through the Junta42 system over a 42 day period...