Content marketing: an interview with Joe Pulizzi

Joe Pulizzi, content marketing evangelistYou probably know that content (be in the form of newsletter content or white papers, for instance) has been used for ages to build traffic, generate leads, etc.  Who hasn’t used white papers to generate leads? Is anyone doing marketing automation or running websites without content prospects/customers want?

How old the value and importance of content may be (it must be 20 years or so since someone, don’t remember who, said that ‘content is king’), over the last years, there is an increasing attention for content (should I mention social media in that regard?).

However, the real value of content is not just in those tactics. The real interesting part is when you start using content across touchpoints and customer journeys in a consistent and strategic way, also known as content marketing. Content is everywhere in an integrated marketing view and of course online. Web content management is not a new thing. But content of course also has an offline dimension. We have been propagating a smart and customer-centric view of content forever (I even ran a content business for a while) and now someone seems to have taken that message internationally.

Time for an interview with the man who coined the term content marketing, Joe Pulizzi.

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Junta42: social media, blogs and email newsletters lead in content marketing

Joe Pulizzi’s Junta42 released the results of the “3rd Annual 2010 Junta42 Content Marketing Spending Survey”.

The main finding is that content marketing spending will continue to rise in 2010: 60% of the surveyed marketers said that they will increase their spending this year. According to the report that’s the third year in a row that marketers will put more budgets into content marketing.

7% of respondents said they are decreasing their spending. The report also found that the average content marketing budgets are 33% of the total marketing budget. In 2008 it was 29%.

An interesting result, for me at least, is that small companies spend more than 2x the amount on content marketing as in comparison to larger companies.  Finally, this, I quote, “of all content areas, marketers are increasing their focus on mobile content solutions more than any other area (as a % growth from 2009)”. That growth percentage is 63%, to be precise.

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