David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing and PR came out in 2007, which seems like a lifetime ago. Now it’s a “marketing classic.” As the world continues to evolve, marketers need to be lifelong learners to stay current. In the interests of continuous learning, I’ve been reading a wide range of books and want […]
Content marketing
Finding your corporate style
If you’re ramping up your content marketing, you need a distinct and consistent corporate style. You want to create a corporate personality that is consistent across all of your communications, starting with your website. My last post talked about identifying your corporate tone and style. But what if you’re just getting started or trying to […]
Messaging part 2: The messaging review
In my last post (There’s always time for messaging) I talked about a few strategies for selling the ‘messaging’ part of a content marketing project. It’s important to nail down key messaging before writing website content, white papers or other content. How do you conduct a review of the messaging, particularly if it’s something that […]
Top 5 reasons to create a product messaging map
I was talking with a client the other day, who told me that he’d gotten some pushback for creating a product messaging document. Some people didn’t understand why he was spending the time creating an internal messaging document rather than diving right in to creating the outbound content. It may seem that I am stating […]