10 Guaranteed Ways To Increase Your Content Shares
Ever wonder why some people’s content goes viral and gets tons of social shares? Is there some content marketing secret sauce you don’t know about? To try to answer this million-dollar question, for a period of eight months BuzzSumo analyzed over 100 million articles, and this is what they found out. Obviously the prerequisite to…
How To Convey Purpose Through Brand Storytelling
Today’s consumers aren’t just passively buying from brands. They view their purchases as extensions of their identity and values. What this means for marketers is that effective marketing can’t just be about promoting a product for its sole use or benefits anymore. Successful marketing needs to be able to create a purpose, a community and…
Can You Do Content Marketing With No Budget?
And 15 More Content Marketing Questions Answered . . . I have done a whole bunch of interviews in the last few weeks on content marketing questions. And since I believe one of the best content marketing hacks is to turn your most frequently asked questions into helpful pieces of information for your audience, I…
Attract An Audience With Content People Actually Want
By Michael Brenner “How To Make Content Real Good” That was the original title of the presentation I gave recently to a group of communications and marketing professionals. It was kind of a joke. Funny, am I right? I just couldn’t do it. My English degree and my somewhat latent OCD just wouldn’t let me.…
Why Culture Defines How Well You Tell Your Brand Story
By Michael Brenner One of the biggest issues we see in the brands who are struggling with content marketing, no – in the brands who are struggling with marketing overall – is culture. Marketing, at many B2B brands, emerged out of the sales team’s need for more leads. Marketing generally started in the field, hosting…
Diversify Your Blog Content With Expert Interviews
By Ann Smarty Let me break it to you: For every well written blog post you write, readers can find a dozen just like it (covering the same topic), and probably just as helpful. It’s time that we diversify and stand out. It’s time that we offer something more than useful advice and tools: It’s…
How to Remain Human with Technology
By Michael Brenner Programmatic Ad Buying. Native Advertising. Content Marketing. Human Storytelling. These are some of the top buzzwords used by brand marketers in the past 12 – 18 months. I am not a huge fan of robots buying banner ad inventory that is never seen by anyone. But this technology is real. And…
Is ‘Information Overload’ a Myth?
The History Of The Theory of Information Overload First, let’s talk about the historical precedence of the information overload theory. I imagine the 2nd day after we emerged from caves, one caveman grunting to the other that there was just too much stuff to process to survive for him to go on. Luckily for us,…
Slideshare: The Biggest Opportunity In Content Marketing
By Michael Brenner At a marketing conference last year, I was asked my opinion on what is the biggest opportunity in Content Marketing? Without hesitation, I answered “Slideshare.” Slideshare is one of the top websites in the world and should be a key focus of any B2B content marketing program. According to Comscore, Slideshare is…
Why Your Brand Is Not What You’re Selling
By Michael Brenner Brand has always been about trust. Brand has always been about choice. And most executives in most boardrooms will agree that a strong brand can provide a competitive advantage. Today, marketing is evolving. Overly promotional tactics can actually hurt your brand image. Digital, social and mobile consumers are looking to interact…
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