Tag: Content Marketing

How You Can Crown Your Content as King

August 12, 2012 Content Marketing no comments

How to Crown Your Content As King

Courtesy of CIO from IDG

You’ve probably heard a million times that content is king. In an age of ubiquitous social networks, everybody is consuming billions of bits and bytes of information across multiple streams – Facebook pages, blog posts, Tweets, videos, podcasts, photos and so on – whenever and wherever they are.

There is a problem, however. With such an overwhelming amount of company and user generated content in the social webs, consumers are screening what they are seeing, hearing and viewing. Increasingly, many are even putting aside their mobiles, tablets and laptops to declare “unplugged” days (such as yours truly).


Mark Twain The Blogging Guru

December 22, 2006 Content Marketing, Social Influence no comments
mark twain photo
Photo by sfjalar

Came across this quirky bit of thinking by Copyblogger about how the legendary Mark Twain (the artist formerly known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens) will make an excellent blogger and perhaps even content marketing guru!

Try to apply these gems to blogging – heck, any form of content marketing or writing – and you will understand the wisdom of the man.

“Whenever you find you’re on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”


How Analogies and Metaphors Uplifts Your Content

November 9, 2006 Content Marketing 2 comments

Analogies and Metaphors

An example of an advertising analogy and metaphor (source of image)

Have you wondered why certain speakers and writers can bring their ideas across so elegantly? How do they transform a complex (and sometimes obscure) concept into one which we can see in our heads with such clarity and definition?

The answer lies in their ability to to tell stories with rich and powerful analogies, allegories and metaphors.