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Survey: Most B2B Marketing Writers Aren’t in Direct Contact with Customers

Sword and the Script

They don’t want to spend a chip furnishing customer interviews for marketing content because they’d rather save those chips to close a deal. Social media is shallow and lacks depth and while analytics are useful and important – successful writers obsess over analytics – it doesn’t provide the context that an interview does.

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Empathy Marketing: How to Understand Your Customers, in 10 Steps

Contently - Strategy

This summer, as part of a Contently innovation workshop, I decided to devote two days a week for conducting empathy interviews with clients and prospects. To be honest, I worried that the exercise would be redundant—I’d worked with dozens of clients as a content strategist and interviewed dozens more for our blog over the years.

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The 6-Step Guide to Creating a Thought Leadership Content Program

Contently - Strategy

An article discussing FedEx’s plans to work towards a more sustainable future , for example, speaks to the investor audience on an owned blog. Measure your results. Citigroup Delivers Keynote at Industry Event Speaking engagements are a favorite way to deliver thought leadership narratives at industry events or conferences.

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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

Waxing UnLyrical

They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. This is hugely helpful, because each theme is different and, as a result, the way a post looks when published on one blog, might look completely different on another. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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PR Interviews: Michael White Lansons

Norton's Notes

I have been interviewing PR practitioners from all over the world as part of my interview series called 20:20 Vision. The concept of these interviews is that I ask each practitioner 20 questions about themselves and they give us a brief glimpse into their working lives and what makes them tick. I’m a published poet.

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Measurement… Supplemented

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. Were they paid? Sales of what?

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5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.