Content marketing

11 best content marketing stories (Q1 15)

By Tony Hallett / 04/03/2015

1. The Beginner’s Guide to Content Marketing (Medium) Let’s take this slowly. First up we have: Content marketing – a beginner’s guide. 2. Moz’s Rand Fishkin on Why Licensing Content Is for…

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Agile content marketing’s need for speed

By Aled Herbert / 09/02/2015

Something we hear a lot is about ‘brand newsrooms‘ as brands increasingly make the shift to become publishers in their own right. The reality is that very few brands can…

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Culture of content – got one?

By Tony Hallett / 26/01/2015

You’ve heard the phrase ‘a culture of content’, right? Well, you’re going to hear it a lot more this year. Why? There’s a good chance your organisation has not only…

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The one secret to a LinkedIn profile that works for you – and your employer

By Tony Hallett / 01/12/2014

We don’t talk about it a lot but we spend some time at Collective Content helping companies and especially their senior executives with their LinkedIn profiles. Sometimes this takes the…

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Tell stories – but also answer questions with your content marketing

By Aled Herbert / 18/11/2014

‘Tell, don’t sell.’ It’s is a phrase you’ll hear a lot on our blogs here on Collective Content. And for good reason. The ‘tell’ is about stories and how to…

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Copywriter v journalist – be sure of the difference

By Aled Herbert / 10/11/2014

In the world of content marketing many of us who hail from a background in journalism, as reporters and editors, can sometimes get a little protective of our territory as…

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When sweary words work (this is a trick headline)

By Tony Hallett / 28/10/2014

The short answer? They almost never do. This post has in part been fast-tracked (I was writing it anyway) after the controversy around this video. It was pulled by YouTube…

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Content marketing in 2015 – more growth but challenges ahead

By Aled Herbert / 08/10/2014

B2B marketers plan to spend more on content marketing and produce more content over the next 12 months but they also face significant challenges in tracking and measuring its effectiveness.…

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Don't know what content you have? You're not alone

By Tony Hallett / 26/09/2014

“People spend millions of pounds on something and they don’t know how to make it work?” That was a question from a contact’s father when he heard his son made…

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Close the deal – when it's OK to break the golden rule of content marketing

By Tony Hallett / 22/09/2014

One of our golden rules of B2B content marketing (alongside things like “First, be useful”) is not to talk about your own company or products. But it can feel good…

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Why every B2B marketer should be using Google+

By Aled Herbert / 28/07/2014

What’s the most popular social media channel B2B marketers are currently using? If you read our recent blog post by Collective Content founder Tony Hallett you’ll know it’s LinkedIn. That’s…

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