9 Key Change Management Essentials for Epic Content Marketing
What change is needed in an organization to be successful with content marketing?
Answering todays marketing challenges is a daunting task for most of us.
Not only is marketing increasingly becoming a digital environment, marketing itself is changing. Buyers demand value on top of existing products and services. They want you to inspire them, educate them, and entertain them.
Embracing a content marketing culture is the first step towards becoming a social business. It is the first step to creating marketing that people actually want.
It requires great, or small changes, depending on your current corporate culture:
- from outbound to inbound
- from self-centric to meaningful
- from classic to digital
- from art to science
Here are some of the key change management essential ingredients you need to take into account when changing a company towards a content marketing culture:
- assess your marketing maturity
- corporate and leadership alignment
- embed openness and authenticity
- embrace new customer centric processes
- employee activation and skills transfer
- internal communication
- quick-wins planning
- content quality gate-keeping
- embedding the change
What is the future of Native Advertising?
RU into the latest “bling bling” Native Advertising thing? Should you?
The problem with marketers is that they are so passionate about what they do. Each time something new pops-up, they want to know.
Often “over-hyped”, and in a sense too young to go mainstream, we try these new “must-haves”.
As is the case with Native Advertising.
The first timid attempts tend to fail, as in the famous example of The Atlantic.
The 157-year old newspaper published an article in which they clearly supported the Scientology Church. Although the article was clearly marked as “sponsor content”, they received a lot of bad reactions, and had to retract the article and publish an apology to their readers.
But of course, we learn from this. In my previous blog post about Native Advertising I explored what Native Advertising exactly is, and how you should apply it.
This blog post is about:
• What kind of content you need when going for Native Advertising?
• How does the future of Native Advertising look like? Read more 
The Rise of Online Advertising, and why I don’t get it
On the one hand online advertising is growing, and on the other hand stats show they are not effective. Can someone explain?
For a couple of years I have been blogging to help others. Now has the moment come where I need your help!
My question is very simple:
Why do marketers keep advertising online, while clearly it doesn’t seem to be working?
And before your click away, no, this is not yet another blog post “yelling” to stop advertising, and to start doing content marketing.
This is something else, and I am merely trying to get my head around something.
And for this I need your help… Read more
