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Given what we’ve been hearing about Mark Schaefer’s content shock — people consume 10 hours of content per day, which won’t change, but the Internet is expected to grow 600 percent by the year 2020 — your engine needs some high octane content just to be able to stay ahead of the increased supply.
As consumers gravitate towards multimedia content — multimedia is also the driving force behind the content the media publishes. Furthermore, a 2016 interview with the Associated Press revealed most major news outlets will not run a text-only story. A helpful exercise is to put yourself in the shoes of a journalist.
If you already have a list of vetted keywords from your marketing team to work from, skip ahead to step two. If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. You don’t need it for this exercise.). Step 1: Identify Keywords You Can Own.
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Whereas second screen devices distract from television shows or even conversations, listening is one of the few consumption activities we can do while engaged in another: commuting, exercising or doing chores. Podcasts, indeed audio, may represent the last slice of (mostly) undivided attention available in marketing.
The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that contentmarketers can emulate. The same C-level decision makers that leverage it in their decision-making processes are difficult to impress— only 17% of them rate the content they read as “very good” or “excellent.”
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Steve has long been a believer “contentmarketing” even before the phrase gained the popularity it has today. The contentmarketing hype-cycle helped alert those asleep at the wheel that this was a requirement for doing business in an information (Google) age. I joined as vice president of marketing.
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