October 2012 – Content Marketing

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How to attract and retain IT high-tech Clients with B2B Content Marketing

Do you offer a more or less technologically complex product, or a technology-based service, that provides a solution to a business challenge? Well, then the following could be of interest. Traditional B2B marketing communications intends to convert prospective clients to customers by describing the characteristics of the product, by putting product benefits into the foreground,

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Gartner‘s Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

Last month Gartner published their Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM), which reveals that three trends have altered the web content management market since 2011: social media, mobile computing and the inclusion of WCM in more comprehensive solutions oriented toward online channel optimization. Buyers are looking for different capabilities and are changing how they

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g2m Solutions’ 10 Rules of successful Content Marketing

g2m Solutions, a Sydney based B2B marketing agency, is living and breathing B2B marketing. According to Managing Director and owner, Chris Fell, content marketing means building valuable content that you give willingly to your contacts, leads, qualified prospects and customers that expand their understanding of the issues they face, assist them to clarify what’s wrong,

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Joe Pulizzi on the 10X Rule and setting uncomfortable Content Marketing Goals

In his blog on the website of the Content Marketing Institute, Joe Pulizzi talks about The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone and his favorite part of the book in particular that deals with setting uncomfortable goals. He quotes the passage: „Those who succeed were – at one point or another in their lives – willing

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Consumer Mobile Services: Planning for Success

When building a consumer mobile service, the initial focus is on working toward a successful launch, meeting deadlines and ensuring the system works properly for the “grand opening,” the press release, the ribbon cutting and photo opportunities. That is important, but planning for long-term success is equally important. Sometimes, it can get pushed so far

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Gartner evaluates Strengths and Cautions of Top Web Content Management (WCM) Solution Providers

Gartner‘s recently released Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management evaluates 19 top Web Content Management (WCM) solution providers, by listing strengths and cautions for each. The report makes up about 30 pages, so we‘ve tried to summarize the findings for our readers in the following:

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Creating engaging, compelling Content is Key to Lead Generation and Sales

B2B marketers often turn to content marketing for lead generation and prospect nurture throughout the lengthy sales process. An August 2012 study from Holger Shulze, author of the blog Everything Marketing Technology, pointed to a growing number of worldwide B2B technology marketers turning to content marketing for more brand-based goals, namely boosting thought leadership and

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Content Marketing: Symbiosis of Marketing, PR, SEO and Sales

Successful content marketing strategies combine know-how and skills from different disciplines, as we all know that ballyhooing advertising promises do not work anymore in the social web. Today, loyal customers, fans and followers are gained with attractive content, making relevancy, utility and entertainment value to the three postulates of content marketing. The combination of PR,

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