Digital B2B Marketing

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Recommending Content and Automated Sharing of Content

Digital B2B Marketing

Automation has made your algorithm, primarily your selection of sources , more important than the content itself. I follow people that, with the addition of automation tools, now share more content than I have time to read, even if they were my only content source. It has disconnected you from your best content sources.

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Content Will Not Be King

Digital B2B Marketing

Nearly every marketer in every industry has heard the cry “ Content is King “ Even the cover of Ad Age was emblazoned with Content is King last month, complete with a crown. Once a call for change and recognition of a new marketplace reality, Content is King has become conventional marketing wisdom. Really folks?

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Social Media is Lowering Our Content Standards

Digital B2B Marketing

Sharing has ceased to be an endorsement of the quality of content. Social media has created the expectation that we share content, and in the drive to meet the content demands social media places on us, our content standards are falling. In fact, you probably aren’t required to share content at all.

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Five Signs Your Content Marketing is an Illusion

Digital B2B Marketing

Content Marketing should provide valuable information to your market at large and to prospects at each stage of the buying process. Ideally, your content is easily discovered, naturally making you and your content a resource. But how do people find your content? You believe your audience won’t share content.

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Social Sleuthing: Who is Sharing Your Content: Twitter & LinkedIn Edition

Digital B2B Marketing

Have you ever wondered who is sharing your blog posts or other content on social media sites but don’t have access to expensive social media monitoring applications that can tell you? Here are ways you can find out who is sharing your content, and in some cases how much traffic each share is driving, on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Five Keys to Creating Content that Drives Awareness

Digital B2B Marketing

Current marketing wisdom says content should be mapped to buying cycles. Yet according to a study from MarketingProfs and Junta42 , 78% of B2B marketers say awareness is an objective of content marketing. It is time to step back from planning content for the buying cycle and focus on Stage Zero Content. Consumable.

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Content Marketing and Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Digital B2B Marketing

Today, B2B marketers use content to meet the information needs of their audiences. However, the experience is often built on the assumption the marketer knows best , with a carefully planned stream of content dictated for each person. Provide Choices Throughout Content. B2B buyers are well educated adults. About Eric Wittlake.

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