by Steve Hershberger | Jul 24, 2012 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
By now, everyone has seen this Infographic. Yes, it is complex and confusing and it should give you a headache. The tools to manage and measure activity on a socially enabled web today are growing at substantial rate. Today, you can track and measure virtually any...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Jun 26, 2012 | Content, Thought Leadership
A few years ago, engagement was the holy grail of marketing. Brands delivered interactive campaigns designed to stimulate action and interaction: Take a poll, share or upload a photo, join a “community,” create a video, and so on. Unfortunately, the outcome was a lack...
by Steve Hershberger | May 22, 2012 | Content, Thought Leadership
Recently Gartner predicted that by 2017, marketing’s technology spend will exceed that of IT’s within the business enterprise. According to Gartner, 2011 B2B and B2C marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue were almost three times as high (10 percent) as IT...
by Cheryl Treleaven | May 7, 2012 | Content
Delivering content at the right place and the right time along the decision journey is the goal of most content marketing programs. Content is a consumable and shareable asset that has a different and distinct role at each point of the journey. Marketers need to...
by Brian Costea | Apr 19, 2012 | Content
Content Marketing is a hot topic. Everyone wants to know how they can deliver and amplify great content that their customers will engage with. Here at ComBlu, we’ve analyzed why marketers need to act like publishers, develop systemized approach to content ideation,...