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Showing posts with label content. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

If your content disappeared tomorrow, would anyone miss it?

What is your content disappeared?
Would anyone miss your content if it all disappeared?
As marketers, we tend to dive headlong into new methods and trends. Content marketing is no exception. In fact, 92,000 new articles are posted online every day. And that’s just one form of content.

It’s easy to understand the appeal. Content marketing is cost effective, versatile and, when done right, leads to long-term success. So we create and curate to feed the content marketing machine. And it’s hungry. But if your content all disappeared, would anyone miss it?

Before you answer that question, give some objective thought to the following.

Monday, November 28, 2011

New email research: Only 28% of messages contain relevant content

That was the subject line that greeted me from one of my favorite and most trusted marketing information sources. I suppose I really shouldn’t be surprised, based on the email I receive on a daily basis. Here are just a few of the subject lines from the last couple of days:

    “Cyber Monday Deals | NORTON SECURITY SOFTWARE”
     I never showed any interest in this or similar products from this particular retailer.

     “The CyberMonday FREE SHIPPING Event! (All Day…3+ Bottles Ship Free!)”
     I do like wine, but I live in a state that by law doesn’t allow alcohol through mail order.