Marketing Craftmanship

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

Marketing Craftmanship

In terms of demographics, it’s telling that Twitter’s top 3 profiles belong to Justin Bieber, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry, but if your B2B firm needs quantitative evidence to support dropping these social media platforms, here is some recent research from Pew Research Center : Use YouTube Selectively. Build Your LinkedIn Presence.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

Marketing Craftmanship

For a host of political and practical reasons, inappropriate and ineffective web content gets posted; sorely outdated content is granted lifetime tenure; and assorted layers of information…in WORD documents, PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, webinars…all obscure the company’s core messages and brand positioning goals.

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The Real Price We All Pay for “Brand Journalism”

Marketing Craftmanship

Promotional messaging that for decades had been identified and quarantined by the media as ADVERTORIAL content – now safely re-branded as “sponsored” or “native” content – has gained legitimacy as bona fide editorial information worthy of placement in the New York Times or the CBS Evening News.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

Notably, in 1984 Mobil boycotted the Wall Street Journal – refusing to provide the nation’s premier business publication with any information, to respond to its reporters, or to advertise – following what Schmertz considered to be history of inaccurate and biased reporting on Mobil. Herb Schmertz was no reckless PR cowboy.