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July 2nd, 2009

Making sense of content marketing

Con­tent mar­ket­ing is one of today’s hot mar­ket­ing top­ics – par­tic­u­larly in B2B. It’s been fuelled by the per­cep­tion that tra­di­tional push mar­ket­ing doesn’t work in a social media dri­ven world – it’s too shal­low, too manip­u­la­tive, too inauthentic.

While this view is almost cer­tainly over­stated (plenty of push mar­ket­ing cam­paigns are still gen­er­at­ing healthy responses) it has a point. There is a wide­spread desire on the part of cus­tomers for more human, less spun com­mu­ni­ca­tions that add value to their deci­sions rather than mud­dy­ing the waters.