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The Coming Content Marketing-Publishing Continuum

B2B Memes

What interested me most in Gordon’s premise was a point he didn’t follow up—the potential convergence, whether in print or online, of traditional publishing and content marketing. The reason for this, he said, is that “his magazines are most often the first point of contact leading to the sale of all the other services he is now selling.”.

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The Yin and Yang of Content Economics

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Content is getting ever cheaper, but to be effective, content has to get ever better. In a time when everyone is becoming a journalist, Neil Thackray says , “that must mean there is an oversupply of content. Try writing for Demand Media and you will quickly learn the harsh economics of content oversupply.”.

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5 Keys to Effective B2B Content

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If content marketers hope to pick up the mantle of the writers and editors behind these endangered magazines, they will need to study the best and brightest of them (or better yet, hire them). By applying them to their own writing, content marketers can keep the B2B publishing flame burning brightly.

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

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For both areas, content is power on the social web and to the extent we can create it and move it virally through a network, we will be successful. So both fields are absolutely in the content creation business these days. Will new media lead to brighter or bleaker career options? The hunger for content is nearly insatiable.

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Journalists as Buzzword Killers

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A post today from Josh Gordon on words to avoid in content marketing gets to the heart of what content marketers must do: think like journalists. But in content marketing, they are disastrous. As he says, “when content marketing looks like a product promotion it gets ignored like a product promotion.”. innovative.

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Brand Journalism Trend Heats Up in UK

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journalists moving into content marketing ) is more than theoretical. Though Burrell uses never names it as such (a “web version” of “customer publishing” is the closest he comes to labeling the trend), it’s clear from his opening that he’s talking about content marketing: “Get used to it.

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Can You Have Entrepreneurial Journalism without Entrepreneurs?

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AOL, BI’s indignant headline says,”Requires Patch Editors To Drum Up Ad Sales Leads.”. For B2B journalists, the most promising options appear to be either small-scale startups where they share both the risks and rewards, or content marketing groups within those companies formerly known as advertisers.

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