A presentation given at the University of Toledo on content marketing by Joe Pulizzi from the content marketing institute. Covers 10 reasons why many businesses fail with content marketing and includes some new research from the Content Marketing Institute.
20 Amazing Examples of Content-First Startups (the Content Inc. Model)
Content Marketing Revolution: 10 Reasons Why Your Content Isn't Working
1. The Content Marketing Revolution Becoming THE Expert In Your Industry Joe Pulizzi Executive Director, Content Marketing Institute Co-Author, Get Content Get Customers
50. IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SELL (Wine) IT’S WHAT YOU STAND FOR (Everyone deserves to understand the wine experience)
51. CATEGORY Create Your Own The Timeout Experience – “Giving people what they really didn’t know they wanted.” - Abe Peck, Medill School of Journalism
We have to focus on what would make us interesting to our customers. Clearly, not our products and services (for the most part). In order to create a magnet to attract customers and prospects to us, we have to market differently than we have in the past.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
Now, all of this should be common sense, but the majority of content we create as companies still revolves around our products and services. Just look at your events, brochures, press releases. Are you creating more interesting information or more content about you you you.
Case in point, this spread in MyFord magazine. All the highlighted areas are where Ford mentions their brands or Ford itself. Does this look like content that someone would want to engage in?
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
Identify where your customers are hanging out at…
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.
And let’s start by discussing how we help buyers make better purchasing decisions. Because before we can truly understand what we do for vendors like you, it’s critical to understand what we do for the buyer community.