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 Jennifer Voisard | Apr 3, 2012 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
Cheers to spring. It means gardening, baseball, sunshine, barbeques and the promise of summer. It also means that ComBlu is busy gearing up for the 2012 State of Online Branded Communities Study. It is hard to believe that we have been on this journey for four...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Mar 6, 2012 | Content, Thought Leadership
I’ve seen the above headline a few places now and at first I sort of scoffed; after all, content marketing has been an accepted marketing practice for decades. In fact, some believe it’s been around since the cave dwellers.“Modern day” content marketing began in 1895...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Aug 17, 2011 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
It’s Year 3 of our annual research on the State of Online Branded Communities – and we’re in the home stretch. So I thought this would be a good time to press pause and see where we are so far. A little background first. What distinguishes our study is its focus on...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Aug 10, 2011 | Content, Thought Leadership
One of the chapters in our new eBook, Content Supply Chain, deals with building a diverse mix of content amplification channels. Paid, Owned, mass social and earned media all play a role in content channel strategy. Today the definition of earned media has expanded to...
