Brands and Content Marketing: Beware the Hype

Content Strategy

Michael Brito, the talented Senior Vice President of Social Business Planning at Edelman Digital (and all around good egg), recently wrote about two brands that are aggressively shifting much of their marketing focus into media centers. I find it encouraging that early corporate adopters are evolving their content marketing strategies into a much more holistic, participatory platform. Concurrent with this shift, however, there are other marketing trends that we should follow with a critical eye, and not confuse corporate media with journalism. The Trend There is a huge trend happening … Continue reading

Infographic: Why Content for SEO?

Content for SEO Infographic

Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your product or service. The questions vary… so a few pages of great content just isn’t going to cut it anymore. Virtually every company needs to become a publisher nowadays if they hope to both build authority in their industry and take advantages of the variety of searches that people are … Continue reading