Two years ago, Mark Schaefer, a five-time best-selling author and Professor at Rutgers University, controversially wrote that most content marketing plans were not sustainable strategies. The problem, he explained, is “content shock”—a term used to describe the point...
“90% to 95% of what [B2B content marketers] do fails. Since when is that acceptable?” That’s what Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, author, and one of the 50 Most Influential People in Sales and Lead Management, asked during a live video chat with me...
This post was originally published as a chapter in our eBook, Inspiring Customers to Create Content for You: A Marketer’s Guide. Content teams need to stop making all of their content in a vacuum. Creating all of your content yourself is a huge time and resource...
You follow all the B2B content marketing best practices. You position your articles as “tips and tricks” and how-tos. You write attention-grabbing headlines. So why is your content still not getting read or widely shared? It’s simple: when audiences keep hearing the...
Developers are notoriously wary of traditional marketing tactics. Instead, they turn to their community of peers for technical advice and product recommendations. This makes producing content that resonates with developers tough. Just ask Meghan Gill, Director of...
B2B content marketing as we know it is broken. Only 30% of B2B marketers say their organizations are effective at content marketing, according to the 2016 B2B Content Marketing Benchmark Report. There are two main reasons for this: Most of your customers are suffering...