Chris Koch

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What the slow death of B2B publishing means for marketers

Chris Koch

That drives publishers to produce a lot of short content designed to reach the broadest possible audience (at least one online story about Apple per day for a technology pub, for example). Advertisers have abandoned print display advertising that at least had some degree of targeting for online display ads that have no targeting at all.

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Why bother with thought leadership? Five questions and answers.

Chris Koch

The questions display a healthy distrust for accepted wisdom, which I like, and provide a good test of the thinking behind thought leadership marketing. This post is from a real query I received from a client this week. See what you think of my answers: How did thought leadership initiatives in companies begin?

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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

For example, being listed on the blogroll of a highly respected blogger, analyst, or journalist not only generates traffic; it also establishes you as an authority among the people who care most about the subject you’re blogging about. Obviously, the more influential the referral site the better. But we’re not talking just sheer numbers here.

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How old-school data capture is poisoning marketing and what to do about it

Chris Koch

He argues that putting a data form in front of a prospect displays a lack of confidence in the quality of our work and at worst drives people into the arms of competitors. Another great example of the aggregation blog strategy that I was talking about.

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