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JUNE 21, 2012

This week I had the privilege of joining Joe Pulizzi of Junta42 and Doug Kessler of Velocity Partners on an online video discussion hosted by Jeff Ogden‘s Marketing Made Simple TV online show. Takeaways and Insights Content Strategy — This is the starting point and essential first step for an effective and efficient content marketing initiative.

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Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Marketing & Strategy Content 156

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JUNE 19, 2012

My day started like most days. I opened and read email, a few blogs and checked out Twitter streams. An article about recent research results on content marketing spend caught my eye. As I glanced at it (how seldom we really read things these days) data about the surge in video use and planned growth caught my eye. So, what did I do? I copied the URL and forwarded it to colleagues with a note, “this is interesting, you should read this.” We all do this, don’t we?

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Curation Practices Content Network Marketing 176

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JUNE 15, 2012

The new realities of B2B marketing has made thought leadership, and the development of big ideas, an important differentiator. The new realities are also driving a change in buyers’ expectations. Buyers want relevant and actionable content that enables them to turn big ideas into operating realities. The traditional role of thought leadership developers has been to focus on the research and analysis that yields the important big ideas.

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Thought Leadership B2B Thought Leadership Deliverability Buying Cycle 139

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JUNE 13, 2012

Content marketing has created a content conundrum. Content marketing is fundamentally about creating buyer relevant, education oriented content, that supports the buying team as they progress through a buying journey. With this shift from vendor to buyer orientation comes great pressure on traditional content production methods and costs. Blogs have emerged as the best way to create for content marketing.

Video Marketing 177

Video Marketing Content Marketing Best Practices Content 177

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JUNE 12, 2012

The traditional video production process and techniques have a clear role for many video purposes. This approach requires specific skills and tends to be inherently expensive, time consuming, and doesn’t scale efficiently. When you shift the purpose for video from entertaining or promoting to explaining, proving and educating, different criteria should dominate.

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Video Marketing Planning Segmentation Education 131

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JUNE 11, 2012

Let’s make a video! What images immediately come to mind? Gotta get a camera, lights, green screen, Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro, etc.? What about skepticism? Is it worth it? Will it work? Will the useful life be longer than 4 months? What distractions and un-intended costs will you face? And, what are the true costs? Traditional Video Thinking I’d like to introduce you to a different way of thinking about video.

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Video Marketing Cost Webinar Metrics Resources 163