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Three Common Failures in Online News: Are You At Fault?

B2B Memes

For most B2B publishers, electronically delivered news content is becoming an increasingly important part of their output. In theory, any B2B e-news package consistently delivering relevant, high-enterprise, fast-paced, exclusive content should dominate its competitive space. a consulting firm serving B2B publishers.

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Webcasts Grow Up

B2B Memes

In one of the earliest posts on this blog I complained about the lack of social-media awareness and interactivity in most B2B webcasts. It’s no doubt priced at a level that puts it out of reach for smaller companies, but it may well set a standard for integration and ease of use that will spread to other platforms.

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The Yin and Yang of Content Economics

B2B Memes

And that means the price falls. As Paul Conley has argued , the result is an “excellence craze”: “In B2B, where I make my living, it seems like every company in every tiny niche of every industry has become a content creator. We may not like it, but behind this trend is the force of economic law.

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Publishers and the iPad: No Future in Control

B2B Memes

Especially B2B publishers (why do you think they call it “controlled circulation&# ?). The publishers want to control the subscription process and have full access to subscriber data; Apple wants to keep that control to itself, skim off 30% of the subscription price, and give publishers limited access to the data. Then it’s evil.

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A Leap-Day Special

B2B Memes

To mark the auspicious occasion of leap day, I’ve marked down the price of the e-book edition of the New-Media Survival Guide to just 99 cents (or, if you’re outside the United States, the equivalent in some other currency). Likewise, the price might not return to the regular $2.99 cover price.

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Three Ways to Annoy People and Produce Great Content

B2B Memes

In my days overseeing a large editorial group for a B2B publisher, my counterpart in sales was fond of telling me that advertisers found our editors arrogant. It’s a perception that most editors learn to accept as the price of doing their jobs well. The trait is not genetic, but occupational. They weren’t, and he knew it.

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The Cooks Source Copyright Outrage: Not the Norm

B2B Memes

As editorial director of a B2B publisher, both before and after the advent of the Web, I often dealt with unauthorized use of our content. The most irritating offenders were the sleazy market research firms that published high-priced reports based largely on reuse of our content or, worse yet, outright plagiarism of it.

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