Archive for 'Content'
How To Get More Views Of Specialty Content
Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
If you’re a company that markets very specific B2B solutions, don’t fall for the usual SEO advice to cast a wide keyword net. Statistics show that you should do the opposite and zero in on very specific keyword chains. You’re a specialty company that’s trying to use content marketing to market your niche business-to-business or [...]
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Generate Quality Content With Expert Commentary
Posted on 14. Mar, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
A great way to generate quality and reusable content is to become an expert for the media. Most content used in B2B marketing is of the run of the mill variety –blogs, tweets, etc. This is not to say that they’re bad. But they’re rarely very deep and so only get you a brief glance [...]
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Crap Content: Google Tries To Stem The Tide
Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
In an attempt to fight the content farms that are proliferating on the Web, Google has changed the way it ranks content. It will work for a while, but not forever. Google has changed its algorithms to lower the search rankings of the content farms that have proliferated on the Web, thereby opening the door [...]
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How A VPN Can Focus Content Marketing
Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
Private VPNs are one method in which content marketers working niches can avoid the SEO scramble that is denaturing content today. The private networks allow your company to become the center of a community. Much has been written about the role of content in modern business to business (B2B) marketing, invariably from the content creation [...]
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Effective Content Marketing Comes From Effective Drilling
Posted on 08. Feb, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
Content marketing demands much more knowledge about prospects’ hopes and fears and problems than traditional marketing. It appears a six-month old report on the state of B2B content marketing is as prescient now as it was when it was released in Sept. 2010. The report, prepared by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, found the [...]
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Trust The Biggest B2B Marketing Issue in 2011
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Tony Wanless.
It looks like creating trust is going to be Job No. 1 for Business to Business (B2B) marketers in 2011. Of course it could be said that trust is always the underlying message contained in all online and offline B2B marketing, because the stakes are so much higher for buyers than in consumer marketing. But [...]
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B2B Marketers Shouldn’t Rely On SEO Voodoo
Posted on 01. Dec, 2010 by Tony Wanless.
If you’re a B2B marketer, don’t place all your bets on simple SEO for top rankings. Content with very specific keywords will better reach targeted customers with problems for which you have a solution. A recent New York Times article highlighted the dangers of depending on SEO alone as a B2B content marketing strategy. The [...]
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How To Sell Your Expertise While You Work
Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by Tony Wanless.
Conquer the the marketing-vs-producing trade off in your professional business. Create content to produce revenue and market your expert services while you continue with your usual work. Most knowledge and professional businesses have long relied almost exclusively on referrals as their primary lead-generation vehicle. The reasoning goes that because a referral is the most trusted [...]
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Why Content Marketing?
Posted on 12. Nov, 2010 by Tony Wanless.
Because it’s more cost-effective Because it has a longer shelf life than advertising Because it has a wider reach Because it’s dynamic and more “alive” Because it involves less risk Because it’s easier to change Because it’s easier to measure the results Because it talks directly to your prospects Because it’s about them, not you [...]
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Content Marketing Is Being Human
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Tony Wanless.
Does your marketing reflect the human beings that make up your company, the personality behind your brand? Content is one way to humanize your company so that you can access the all-important human dimension of business. Simply, people like doing business with people they know and have done so as long as there has been [...]