July 13, 2014
Building Trust With Content Marketing: The Basics
5 Ways To Build Trust With Content Marketing How to ensure content marketing gets through the online noise. If you stop to consider the fact that there are 347 blog posts created every minute, you will probably come to the conclusion that we have entered the age of information overload. Beyond blogs, there are videos,…
July 6, 2014
Why Marketers Should Stop Expecting Their Content To Go Viral
The following article is republished with permission from Michael Brito: Marketers: Stop Expecting Viral Content Marketers: Stop Expecting Viral ContenThe following article is republished with permission from Michael Brito: Marketers: Stop Expecting Viral Content Expectations are a part of life. They play a critical role in relationships, life events, job performance, sports and yes, even…
June 30, 2014
Stop Solipsistic Marketing II – 10 Tips
What’s Your Curagami Score? Our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami is developing a new cool metric – a Curagami Score. Knowing a website’s Curagami Score helps digital marketing teams know if their marketing is talking to themselves about themselves or winning hearts, minds and loyalty online. We thought it would be fun to share 5…
June 26, 2014
A Social Media Budget For Every Strategy: Content Marketing
With social media being so ubiquitous in marketing activities, marketers have many options to choose from when considering what platform to use. The numbers can be very confusing sometimes, in addition to the identification of why the marketer needs a particular platform. As I look at my social media efforts month over month, I always consider…
June 23, 2014
Good, Better, Best – Why Information Parity Helps Sales
Does Your Site Create Information Disparity? One of the most important CSFs (Critical Success Factors) we’ve discovered working on our Triangle Startup Factory funded startup called Curagami is how crippling information disparity can be for online merchants and B2B content marketers. Visitors arrive on a website with expectations. Meet those expectations and your chances to…
June 16, 2014
Hero Marketing – The Only Marketing Left
Stumbling On Hero Marketing on Martin’s Ride My career is over I remember thinking. Hearing “cancer” and my name in the same sentence made me a little crazy. As context roled in like a tide new perspectives emerged. Career as a concept fell apart. Heck, CONTROL as a concept is trashed. Many of life’s cherished…
June 16, 2014
Here’s A Whole New Approach To Content Marketing
The following article is republished with permission from Michael Brito: A Smarter Way To Think About Content Marketing The challenge with “content marketing” as a term or approach is that it’s by nature a very tactical way to engage with customers and prospects. It can easily be done in a silo. There is nothing stopping…
June 12, 2014
Curating an Experience Your Audience Will Remember
This article, re-published with kind permission of Danny Brown, takes a different type of look at the importance of storytelling in engaging an audience, and is itself written in a manner that engages from first word to last. Enjoy! Creating and Curating an Experience Your Audience Will Remember We like to be entertained. We enjoy…
June 11, 2014
7 Best Posts on Creating Content for Emotional Engagement
Here’s the bottom line: if your content does not engage your reader emotionally, their connection to you is puny. Their ability to remember you vanishes. Your value to them is lost. No no, don’t go down that road! Yet it happens too easily. Any content you create needs to connect and emotionally engage your audience…
June 9, 2014
What Is A MacGuffin & Why Web Design Needs To Include Them
Film MacGuffins I’ve been fascinated with the idea of MacGuffins and how the idea translates to websites. Here is an explanations of a film MacGuffin, an idea created by Alfred Hitchcock: One of the most oft-used and well known plot devices in Hollywood movies is the “MacGuffin,” the object that drives the story forward and…
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