The Digital Conversationalist

Content and Context

In this digital media revolution, content has never been more important

8 Tips to Build a Twitter Presence From Scratch

As a marketer I strongly believe that if you’re in business, you have to be on Twitter: especially if you want to be part of a global conversation. There are other social sites you must be on too (LinkedIn), but it’s about being where your customers are, and Twitter should be viewed as a cornerstone communication channel for […]

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6 Tips for Identifying Your Perfect B2B Content Partner

I’ve been in the content marketing game since 2003, when I launched IDC’s Marketing Services business into Asia. It wasn’t called ‘content marketing’ back then, and I didn’t actually identify myself as a content marketer until 2009, when I was running my own business. Of course, for the dynamic region of Asia, it’s only in

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Are you Content Marketing or Marketing?

The stats are pretty clear: 77 percent of B2C and 86 percent of B2B companies are using content marketing – Jeffbullas.com 78 percent of CMO’s think custom content is the future of marketing – Visual.ly $135 billion was spent on digital marketing content in 2014 – Visual.ly 62 percent of millennial loyalty is driven by

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Content Marketing is About Earning People’s Time

There is a GREAT deck on Slideshare right now. It’s called “Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge” by Velocity Partners. I love this deck for many reasons, but mainly because it spoke my language – irreverent, but makes a very strong argument – and that is: as more B2B brands turn to content marketing, the consumer

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Content Marketing and Personal Branding are Inextricably Linked

Simon Cholmeley and I were thrilled to be invited to speak at the Microsoft Platinum Partner Summit 2015 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, last week. A wonderful opportunity to share our learnings on the content marketing landscape in Asia with Microsoft’s partners, we also took the opportunity to link the message to something absolutely

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What’s Holding Asia’s Businesses Back from Content Marketing?

I’ve had the great privilege to do a few speaking spots recently, and it’s given me an opportunity to really hone my thinking around how I present about content marketing, as well as to hear perspectives from other professionals in the field. Content marketing is actually a massive topic, with lots of different angles to

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A Basic Rule of LinkedIn Participation we Need to Heed

My colleague is complaining about people swamping his LinkedIn feed with too many updates. He showed me his screen and two people posted five pieces each before lunchtime. The worst part is the content wasn’t even that good – you can forgive excessive posting of great content, but you can’t forgive salesy, irrelevant content right?

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Why McKinsey is One of my Favourite B2B Content Marketing Brands

I’m doing another content “audit” for technology companies, and as I did last time, my starting point is LinkedIn. Why? Because if a brand is in the B2B space, this should be the only place I need to go to find amazing content focused on enterprise business professionals. I believe that any B2B business should

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Dear Analysts, Please Get More Social

As I’ve recently “retired” from yet another chapter as an analyst relations person in the technology industry, I wanted to share a few thoughts with my friends, the analysts. As some of you know, I sincerely believe there is a massive opportunity for everyone on social media, and I’d love to see you all embrace

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