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How Can I Make You Pay for This Post?

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The phrase suggested to me one more challenge she might have added: “How to stop thinking of your customers as peons and thieves.”. The longer traditional media thinks in terms of how they can make their customers do things, the closer they are to extinction. The last in her list was “how to make people actually pay for content.”

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Open vs. Closed: Six New-Media Principles, No. 4

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These “walled garden” systems restricted who could participate, and relied on custom-built, proprietary systems that could be difficult to use and impossible to adapt. In theory, closed, custom-built systems can more directly address the needs of the users who pay for the service.

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Brand Journalism Trend Heats Up in UK

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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. journalists moving into content marketing ) is more than theoretical.

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Jesse Noyes: Brand Journalist or Brand Reporter?

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It’s to draw people in, to provide some form of value that will establish a level of credibility and intelligence that will create a stronger relationship with the brand’s customers and potential customers. If this is what happens, I see it as both beneficial for the brand and the brand’s customers.

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This Might Be Big: IDG Enters Content Marketing

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It’s a big step beyond traditional custom publishing, which is nothing new for IDG. In that old model, the publisher is essentially saying to its customers, “You know nothing about publishing. Let us do it for you.”. But now, IDG is saying something very different: “You can do your own publishing.

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Want to Twitter Better? Diversify Your Pronouns

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” For the most part, he’s talking to marketers, trying to get them to focus on the information their customers need rather than what the marketers most want to talk about: themselves. One of my favorite Joe Pulizzi sayings is “ it’s not about you.” Journalists generally don’t see this as their own problem.

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Start-Up Briefing Media Ltd. Blends Old with New

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Over time one of those revenue streams might rise to be dominant, but during my whole career in B2B media the most successful brands I have worked on have made money in many diverse ways—whatever the customer needs. The main metric we will be monitoring in the initial phase is the level of customer registration on our sites.

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