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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

It’s high time businesses tap into the power of user-generated content (UGC), a form of content marketing where your customers take center stage. Cost Another major benefit of UGC relates to the costs of creating content. UGC leverages the voices and experiences of real people to promote your brand.

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Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2009

markempa

Forecasting Clouds ranked the top 20 CRM blogs based on their content, readability and frequency of posting. Read Forecasting Clouds' Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2009. I'm honored to have been included on the list. As I read over the list of blogs, I discovered some new ones worth reading along with a number of bloggers I already follow.

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How to take smart risks with lo-fi social content

Sprout Social

In late 2009, Domino’s released a brutally honest commercial, publicizing customers’ overwhelmingly negative feelings about their pizza—and asking folks to give them a second chance. Enter: lo-fi content. What is lo-fi social media content? What’s driving the shift toward lo-fi content?

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Here’s Why Finance Brands Need to Care About Cryptocurrency Content

Contently

But their secret sauce was content. While most finserv content at the time took the form of dry PDFs, Mint’s blog sounded like it was written by your friend’s cool older sibling who worked on Wall Street but went to Vassar, and had somehow saved up $100K by age 27. The content took off almost immediately.

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ClickDigest: Weekly Round-Up: 23-Oct-2009

Ambal's Amusings

It’s a big world out there in the content-marketing/social media/B2B blogosphere, so we would like to save your time by rounding up the best posts and articles of the week. Joe Pullizzi has posted an article that highlights the budgeting issues of content publishing. Related Articles : ClickDigest : Weekly Round-Up : 9-Oct-2009.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips and Tactics, Part 2

Webbiquity

Find the answers to these questions and many others here in more of the best SEO articles and blog posts from 2009. SEO Ranking Factors for 2009 by WebProNews. Mike McDonald provides his own take on SMX Advanced 2009 here, outlining the most important current ranking factors with title tags and anchor text at the top of the list.

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Best Marketing Strategy Insights of 2009

Webbiquity

Why is content marketing becoming critical? Jodi Harris summarizes highlights from Mandalay Entertainment Founder and CEO Peter Guber’s keynote speech at the 2009 Entertainment Marketing Summit advising marketers to overcome resistance to change, create memorable stories and great content in order to motivate prospects.