Chris Koch

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How to write blog posts from a white paper

Chris Koch

If you’re a corporate marketer like me, no doubt you’ve been put in the situation I faced this week: you have a white paper that an external content person created for the company and now you need to make that content social. The white paper has one big idea. White papers are serious.

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3 ways to link marketing to revenue without metrics

Chris Koch

Now, you may think that because I’m using revenue and thought leadership together in the same sentence that I’m going to reveal some secret way to measure the link between the white paper you published last month and the complex solution sale you make six months from now. How do you link content to revenue? Tweet This Post.

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Why you need to turn your customers into stalkers

Chris Koch

All through 2010, marketers have been telling us that they are having a harder time getting their content noticed. Social media have created so much noise that it’s becoming more difficult for the good old white paper to stand out. Stats show that just 23% of the Fortune 1000 has corporate blogs —not exactly overwhelming.

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Is ghost writing in social media right or wrong?

Chris Koch

This week, I posted the first of what may prove to be a series of controversial blog posts on the SAP community network (known to members as SCN). The posts won’t be controversial so much for the content itself (although I hope that that happens eventually) as for the way I’m presenting it. Related articles.

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How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing

Chris Koch

I’m still looking to pin down incontrovertible evidence of this, but anecdotally I hear from people that when they get rid of qual forms for their content the amount of engagement increases exponentially. of the time any link that you put in a tweet is going to lead to accessible content. come at a price.

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How to use social media for B2B

Chris Koch

Take an active role in facilitating and managing conversations, such as creating a blog or community. For example, the number of RSS subscribers bloggers have, the number of comments to the blog post, the number of page views, etc. Social media are repositories for discussions and content on every possible topic.

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There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks

Chris Koch

That means social media are extensions of our content development and dissemination processes. By creating content that offers relevant, timely, and useful ideas and education for buyers at all stages of the buying process, we create the incentives for buyers to engage with us in conversation and community. The rest is promotion.