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Content Marketing: What The Inc 500 Know That The Fortune 500 Do Not | Heidi Cohen

Content Marketing: What The Inc 500 Know That The Fortune 500 Do Not | Heidi Cohen | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Represented by the Inc 500, the highest growth small businesses get content marketing as a means to expand their reach and increase profitable sales when compared to their larger, more established Fortune 500 counterparts.

 

These small business (SMB) organizations must be leaner and more effective at maximizing each aspect of their marketing mix to compete with larger, more complex firms. Content marketing helps them build trust by offering the type of promotion-free information their customers actively seek during the purchase process.


The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth research, entitled "2012 Inc 500 Social Media Settles In" reveals that Inc 500 companies continue to blog at greater rates than their Fortune 500 peers. In 2012, 44% of the Inc 500 had a corporate blog, an increase of 7% from 2011. By contrast, 28% of the Fortune 500 had a blog in 2012. While this is an increase of 5% from 2011, the Fortune 500’s blogging rate still lags that of the Inc 500....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Agile companies seem to "get" social media and the power of business blogging...

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2013′s Growing Marketing Trend: Whitespace | AWeber

2013′s Growing Marketing Trend: Whitespace | AWeber | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

You may be in on the trend or you may be oblivious, but you’ve seen it, and you’ve probably been drawn in by it.

 

Copious amounts of whitespace – large gaps between images and chunks of text, whether the background color is white or not – are appearing on more and more marketing materials.

 

Why, you ask, and why should you care?  Here, I’ll explain why....

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Several good examples of whitespace and simpler content.

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