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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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That act of reframing is not simply an option, but an obligation, a key to survival. The insight is easy; acting on it, alas, is hard. Instead of the traditional editorial beats , its coverage reflects what it calls obsessions. In fact, for the B2B world in particular, it is a crucial concept. I would go a bit farther.

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

B2B Memes

That act of reframing is not simply an option, but an obligation, a key to survival. The insight is easy; acting on it, alas, is hard. Instead of the traditional editorial beats , its coverage reflects what it calls obsessions. In fact, for the B2B world in particular, it is a crucial concept. I would go a bit farther.

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Ethics: Transparency Is Not All

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As Miles puts it, “the art to great content marketing must then be, through the very act of providing neutral, targeted content. to position the company as a trusted information source for the future, to earn the respect of the audience through truthful content.”. In content marketing, that bias tends to be more transparent.

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The Shift to New Media Cannot Be Gradual

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More than a third of them had no company training at all in the past year, and two-thirds found what training was offered to be inadequate. Don’t wait around for your company to follow this or similar advice. So far, it seems, they’re still looking backwards, to judge from two recent surveys of magazine personnel.

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

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For a company, it should not be about “the conversation” or the hype. Don’t act on an emotion of fear of being left behind. A couple of years ago when I started B2B Memes it was my plan to focus exclusively on trade publishing. For me, a journalist, this came as a jolt. He sees his subjects with a wonderfully journalistic eye.

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Back from the Dead: The Challenge of Digital First

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How the transition plays out will vary with the circumstances of each company, of course, but the main hurdle is the same for all legacy publishers—the all-consuming demands of the print process. “‘I am Lazarus, come from the dead. Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all’”. Let me try to explain. I, for one, am trying.