Companies need to stay ahead of the curve. Being agile is crucial ingredient. Innovation needs to come from the top, with the leader of the company setting a culture where innovation and risk tasking is accepted. Employees should not be punished for failing and their ideas should not be ignored. In order to attract and […]
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5 Steps to Create a Content Marketing Strategy
You need to create content that’s unique-enough to create thought-leadership and compel organic sharing, but also make it relevant-enough to improve key marketing and business metrics. Five steps to developing a content marketing strategy: Step #1: What are Your Customer’s Problems and Obstacles? The best business content is focused on addressing your customer’s problems, while […]
Better Management Could Spur a New Era of Economic Growth
The Harvard Business Review says we can manage a new era of economic growth spurring innovation and efficiency. A grassroot innovation (Photo credit: rakesh_s(introspecting)) Among economists, business leaders, and others, the debate continues over “Stagnation” of the U.S. economy — and what interventions might return it to growth, and more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced […]
Why Content Marketing Fails
In the film industry, Pixar is an unparalleled success. It’s 14 animated films have won 27 Academy Awards and every single one is on the list of highest grossing animated films of all time. Yet still, in his recent memoir, Creativity Inc., the President of Pixar, Ed Catmull, laments, early on, all of our movies […]
What Netflix Can Teach Us About Content Marketing
Small business owners struggling to understand the importance of original content development can look to Netflix for an analogy. With Content marketing there’s content curation, and there’s content creation. Netflix (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Curated content is anything that was written by someone else that you happen to be sharing on your pages; it may be […]