If you are active in content marketing, I guess you have heard (or read) the advice that you have to keyword optimize your content. While I agree that you should consider which are the words people expect you to use for certain topics and which terms are commonly used, I also think putting too much focus on keyword optimization can…
If the title of this post doesn’t sound very original to you – that’s because it’s not. There are many posts about this topic. But I am still surprised on a daily basis by the ignorance with which the differences between these different areas of online marketing are met by various people… even members of the online marketing community. So…
When you are part of the international marketing community, sometimes something happens. Something scary or enlightening. Something that you know will change the way you approach marketing in general. 2014 kicked off with an event of this magnitude. Maybe not in everyone’s perception, but at least in mine. I am talking about Mark Schaefer’s initial post about content shock. Not…
When we here at The Social Marketers are discussing topics for articles we are going to write for our blog; sometimes I suggest a topic and Jonathan says: “Everybody writes about that, what is your special take on this? What will make your content really something people want to read and cannot find a million times on the web?” That…
According to a study by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, only 38% of B2B companies think their content marketing is effective. The same study also states that only 35% of the companies have a documented content marketing strategy. My guess is that some of these companies do not even know whether they are effective or not. They cannot say what…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) When it comes to online content marketing, you cannot deny that Copyblogger is a big name. One of the biggest out there. They are in the place where dreams become reality. Brian Clark founded Copyblogger as his own simple one-man-band style blog back in 2006, started talking about marketing with content and it grew from there…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) Content and social media marketers write a lot of content. For us, The Social Ms, the process usually goes: One of us writes a piece of content and the other reads, corrects, comments and adds his/her thoughts. I think this process adds to the original piece of content. But I know that sometimes it would be…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) What makes some blogs/bloggers successful while others are passing by fairly unnoticed? Of course, the first and very important reason is the quality of the content, but there is more to the success of a blog than the content published. I am absolutely sure, there are thousands of blogs out there that I would love to…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) One of the most common social media tips is: “Never spam. Don’t send advertising messages, don’t send sales emails, …” If you ask me, this is bad advice. Here is why: Marketing always consisted and will always consist in a large part of what we today like to call spam. Getting messages out to people that…
By Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) Content creation is at the heart of any successful social media strategy. But there is one thing that will make all the difference between you and all the others out there. And that is the passion you put into your content creation. Passion is what made blogging and bloggers become more successful than established newspapers. Passion…