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The Trouble With Content Marketing

The Trouble With Content Marketing | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Content marketing is everything. It's nothing. It's substantial like rock. It's fleeting like the wind. It's both sides of the brain in perfect harmony. It's the brand story. It's the value proposition shown, not told. In other words, it's a tactic with an identity crisis.

 

Teeehe Content Marketing Institute itself is proud to stack up no fewer than 21 explanations of this burgeoning field, plus six more definitions on another page on its site. I say this not to ridicule, but to highlight the confusion in the marketplace about content marketing. There's not a broadly agreed-upon definition of the field....


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Content marketing has an identity crisis. Here's why (and how to resolve it).

Andrea Rossi's curator insight, March 11, 2016 2:25 AM

Don't you love my great title? 

 

Ok, it's confusing but trust me, this article is not and makes a good job at explaining a simple but often misunderstood truth on content marketing: the intent is important. 

 

Publishing content randomly won't help your brand or company at all. It's publishing content that adds value to your audience and brings it close to your brand or a buying decision.

 

So not all content is created equal.

Dominique Mas's curator insight, March 13, 2016 12:18 PM

Content marketing has an identity crisis. Here's why (and how to resolve it).

Andrew Orvis's curator insight, March 19, 2016 6:24 PM

Don't you love my great title? 

 

Ok, it's confusing but trust me, this article is not and makes a good job at explaining a simple but often misunderstood truth on content marketing: the intent is important. 

 

Publishing content randomly won't help your brand or company at all. It's publishing content that adds value to your audience and brings it close to your brand or a buying decision.

 

So not all content is created equal.

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Amazon's Free-Shipping Price Increase Is Pure Genius -- The Motley Fool

Amazon's Free-Shipping Price Increase Is Pure Genius --  The Motley Fool | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Prompting more people to sign up for Amazon Prime, and thus spend more on amazon.com, makes sense.

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Content Curation Has Been Hijacked

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Content Curation Is Not a Marketing Technique
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Many solid points here; but also worthy of reading for simply knocking the "easy way" mentality of many "quick marketing plans" out there.

i.e. Realty's curator insight, March 25, 2014 4:06 PM

Are you creating value or noise?

LennyFromTheBlock's curator insight, June 21, 2020 9:56 PM
I've always wanted to know the difference, if there was any, between content curation and content marketing, and I found it! I found out there is a huge difference between the two and even though they sound like the same things, they are not. This article is such an easy read if you have extra time on your lunch break or on the bus to work! 
Content curation is looked at as easy and effortless but actually is more time consuming because you have to go through site after site, and infographic after infographic to look for the perfect ones for your intended audience.
Amanda Schenk's curator insight, June 22, 2020 10:56 PM
The media industry is just one blurred line. Every subject and specialty overlaps at least a tiny bit with another. However, though content curation and content marketing are frequently seen as synonymous, they are distinctly different. 
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What is preferable: A blog or a traditional Newspaper?

What is preferable: A blog or a traditional Newspaper? | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Hello “TechnoTactics” readers, how are you all doing? Busy checking out the new SEO strategies to get more engagement? Welcome to my article regarding...
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For Readers Drowning in E-Books, Author Collectives Offer a Lifeline

For Readers Drowning in E-Books, Author Collectives Offer a Lifeline | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
In an ocean of self-published titles, two questions keep bobbing to the surface: How can readers find quality e-books, and how can authors of quality e-books find readers?

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Facts & Questions on Blogging, Curating & Collecting

Facts & Questions on Blogging, Curating & Collecting | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

But what does curation mean? How is that really different from blogging? And why on earth would we need another means of adding to information overload?

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How Brands are Creatively Using Technology to Make Print Advertising More Effective

How Brands are Creatively Using Technology to Make Print Advertising More Effective | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
Since industry estimates now peg the average time a reader spends looking at your ad at 3 to 5 seconds, a successful print campaign now hinges upon eye-catching presentations that are meant to capture and resonate with the audience.
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Author Promotion: What Worked, What Didn't

Author Promotion: What Worked, What Didn't | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Good: I wrote personalized letters to booksellers and sent them ARCS. My efforts resulted in my novel being a Booksense Notable (Which is now Indie Bound.)

Bad: I wasted too much time on bookstore appearances. Lots of time only a few people would come out, so now I mostly do drop-in signings where I just sign stock and chat up booksellers.

Karin Gillespie


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Branding 101 For Publishers in the Digital Age

Branding 101 For Publishers in the Digital Age | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
But times really have changed. Attention on the end user is rising; the intermediary structure is declining. And publishers should be rethinking their branding strategies, at the core of which are imprints, as they address the emerging marketplace realities.

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How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden

How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Apple's decision to reject an e-book by Seth Godin because it contains hyperlinks to books in the Amazon store is just another example of how the oligopoly that controls the market for e-books is turning the landscape of reading into a walled garden.
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Just as a few massive chain stores eventually came to dominate the traditional printed book market in North America, the e-book marketplace is a kind of oligopoly involving a few major players — primarily Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble. And while bookstore owners of all kinds are free to decide which books they wish to put on their shelves, these new giants have far more control over whose e-books see the light of day because they also own the major e-reading platforms, and they are making decisions based not on what they think consumers want to read but on their own competitive interests. That is turning the e-book landscape into even more of a walled garden.

Author and digital-marketing maven Seth Godin highlighted this issue in a recent blog post, in which he described how his new book was turned down by Apple because it contained hyperlinks to books sold by Amazon (with whom Godin has a partnership). According to a letter that the author says he received from the company, the new title — Stop Stealing Dreams, a book about the transformation that Godin believes needs to happen in public education — was rejected by Apple due to what the letter described as “multiple links to [the] Amazon store.” Godin notes that the book had links to related works, including Too Big to Know from David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto.


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What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter: Memo to publishers: DRM is not your friend

What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter: Memo to publishers: DRM is not your friend | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it

Author J.K. Rowling has chosen to do a number of interesting things with the launch of the e-book versions of her Harry Potter series.
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After months of anticipation, the e-book versions of author J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally successful Harry Potter series are now available through Rowling’s Pottermore online unit, and as my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen has noted in her post on the launch, Rowling has chosen to do a number of interesting things with her e-books, including releasing them without digital-rights management restrictions. Obviously, the success of the Potter series has given Rowling the ability to effectively dictate terms to just about anyone, even a powerhouse like Amazon, but there are still lessons that other book publishers should take from what she is doing. 

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One of the encouraging things about the Pottermore launch is that the books will be available on virtually every platform simultaneously, including the Sony Reader, the Nook from Barnes & Noble, the Kindle and Google’s e-book service (which is part of Google Play).

 


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Chick Lit: A case study in how publishers and booksellers drive a trend into the ground

Chick Lit:  A case study in how publishers and booksellers drive a trend into the ground | A Marketing Mix | Scoop.it
The “chick lit” box never really did justice to the full spectrum of women’s experience that many of these novels address—and is no longer relevant to the work being published now.

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