Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses

Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses

Author: Joe Pulizzi

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2015-09-04

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1259589668

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“Instead of throwing money away and sucking up to A-listers, now there is a better way to promote your business. It’s called content marketing, and this book is a great way to master this new technique.” -Guy Kawasaki, Chief evangelist of Canva and author of The Art of the Start 2.0 "How do you take the maximum amount of risk out of starting a business? Joe Pulizzi shows us. Fascinate your audience, then turn them into loyal fans. Content Inc. shows you how. Use it as your roadmap to startup success.” -Sally Hogshead, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, How the World Sees You "If you're serious about turning content into a business, this is the most detailed, honest, and useful book ever written." -Jay Baer, New York Times bestselling author of Youtility" The approach to business taught all over the world is to create a product and then spend a bunch of money to market and sell it. Joe outlines a radically new way to succeed in business: Develop your audience first by creating content that draws people in and then watch your business sell themselves!" -David Meerman Scott bestselling author of ten books including The New Rules of Sales and Service "The digital age has fundamentally reshaped the cost curve for entrepreneurs. Joe describes the formula for developing a purpose-driven business that connects with an engaged and loyal audience around content. With brand, voice and audience, building and monetizing a business is easy." -Julie Fleischer, Sr. Director, Data + Content + Media, Kraft Foods" What if you launched a business with nothing to sell, and instead focused first on serving the needs of an audience, trusting that the 'selling' part would come later? Crazy? Or crazy-brilliant? I'd say the latter. Because in today's world, you should serve before selling." -Ann Handley, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Writes and Content Rules "Today, anyone, anywhere with a passion and a focus on a content niche can build a multi-million dollar platform and business. I did it and so can you. Just follow Joe's plan and hisContent Inc. model." -John Lee Dumas, Founder, EntrepreneurOnFire" The Internet doesn't need more content. It needs amazing content. Content Inc is the business blueprint on how to achieve that. If you're in business and are tired of hearing about the need for content marketing, but want the how and the proof, Content Inc is your blueprint." -Scott Stratten, bestselling author and President of UnMarketing Inc." Content marketing is by far the best marketing strategy for every company and Joe is by far the best guru on the topic. I wish this book was available when we started our content marketing initiative. It would have saved us a huge amount of time and effort!" -Scott Maxwell, Managing Partner/Founder OpenView Venture Partners


SUMMARY - Content Inc: How Entrepreneurs Use Content To Build Massive Audiences And Create Radically Successful Businesses By Joe Pulizzi

SUMMARY - Content Inc: How Entrepreneurs Use Content To Build Massive Audiences And Create Radically Successful Businesses By Joe Pulizzi

Author: Shortcut Edition

Publisher: Shortcut Edition

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages: 36

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* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. In this summary, you will discover how Joe Pulizzi, the father of "Content Marketing" in the United States, created his company by developing his audience, before defining products and services to match it, in order to establish himself on a long-term basis. You will also discover how : attract prospects and customers by creating high value-added information ; your audience, once it has become loyal, will stand by your side; create your business around content, make it actionable and monetizable. Content Inc. gives you all the tools you need to create and deliver content, and how to make the most of it by changing the paradigm of your business, whether it's in the process of being created or already well established. This book is divided into six key steps in content creation and delivery that teach you how to build audience loyalty and increase the growth of your startup or business. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!


Content Inc., Second Edition: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (With Little to No Money)

Content Inc., Second Edition: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (With Little to No Money)

Author: Joe Pulizzi

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1264257554

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From one of today’s leading experts in content marketing, Content Inc. is the go-to guide to building a solid small business by establishing a loyal audience before you sell products or services. In these pages, Joe Pulizzi provides a lower-risk, more effective way to create a path to success by re-engineering the process that so often leads to failure: You’ll learn how to develop valuable content, build an audience around that content―and then create a product for that audience. Content Inc. walks you through the entire process, showing how to: Choose a marketable content topic Figure out where little or no competition exists Choose your top channel for disseminating content Build long-term customer loyalty Monetize your product or service Expand your content into multiple channels Sell your content asset or scale it into a large enterprise This updated edition includes new and enhanced coverage of platforms like TikTok, SnapChat, and Instagram, a new section about the exit strategy for the model, more practical how-tos, and current examples of companies that have successfully implemented these strategies. Content Inc. provides an ingenious approach to business based on a profoundly simple concept: Having a singular focus on audience, and building a loyal audience directly, provide the best, most nuanced understanding of what products ultimately make the most sense to sell. Apply the methods laid out for you in Content Inc., and create the business of your dreams.


The End of Marketing

The End of Marketing

Author: Carlos Gil

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0749497599

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WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2020 - Marketing and Advertising category WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Business: Small Business and Entrepreneurship category WINNER: BookAuthority Best New Book to Read in 2020 - Social Media Marketing category FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - International Business Book category Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, always-on culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean. In an era where a YouTube star gets more daily impressions than Nike, Coca-Cola and Walmart combined, traditional marketing as we know it is dead. The End of Marketing revolutionizes the way brands, agencies and marketers should approach marketing. From how Donald Trump won the American presidency using social media and why Kim Kardashian is one of the world's biggest online brands, through to the impact of bots and automation, this book will teach you about new features and emerging platforms that will engage customers and employees. Discover bold content ideas, hear from some of the world's largest brands and content creators and find out how to build smarter paid-strategies, guaranteed to help you dominate your markets. The End of Marketing explains that no matter how easy it is to reach potential customers, the key relationship between brand and consumer still needs the human touch. Learn how to put 'social' back into social media and claim brand relevancy in a world where algorithms dominate, organic reach is dwindling and consumers don't want to be sold to, they want to be engaged.


Content Marketing Revolution

Content Marketing Revolution

Author: Dane Brookes

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780993369704

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Content Marketing Revolution boldly guides you through five proven steps that will help your business to attract more customers, close more sales and excite brand loyalty. Whether you're a marketing manager, an entrepreneur or an S&P Index CEO, this book provides a step-by-step guide to planning, executing and monitoring a killer content marketing strategy. Gone are the days when traditional marketing messages had critical power on buying decisions. Instead, customers now want to make empowered decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity. This book will help you to quickly adapt to the demise of traditional marketing and position your brand as a market leader in the 'content age'. Content marketing expert, Dane Brookes, shares his secrets and battle tactics, along with everything you need to know to seize control of your market by giving your customers exactly what they want, before they even realise it. Entertainingly written, this book is packed with practical tips, proven strategies, and case studies that demonstrate how some of the most successful brands in the world like Red Bull, Four Seasons and Open University are nurturing customers with highly-relevant content. The book also includes contributions from leading content experts, including Olivier award-winning writer, Mark Davies Markham and Philips' Digital Editor in Chief, Matt Warnock (Foreword). It's time to declare war on your competitors and revolutionise your place in the market. Expert reviews: "Dane Brookes inspiringly guides you through the five key steps to success. This book is a must for marketers of all levels." - Mark Langshaw, Journalist at Digital Spy "Dane Brookes is amongst the new breed of true content marketers. By following his advice in this book, you'll be able to devise a solid content strategy, with insights into how you can test, measure and improve." - Matt Warnock, Digital Editor in Chief at Philips "Content Marketing Revolution is the new bible for business owners. If you want to dominate your market, this is your starting point." - Debora Fougere, Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning TV Producer "If you're looking to build a marketing strategy that actually works, this book contains the instructions." - Jo Banks, Author & Business Consultant


The One Hour Content Plan

The One Hour Content Plan

Author: Meera Kothand

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781974415700

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This book will help you unlock a full year's worth of blog traffic-building content ideas in 60 minutes or less.


Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit

Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit

Author: Joe Pulizzi

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1260026434

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Killing your current marketing structure may be the only way to save it! Two of the world’s top marketing experts reveal the next level of breakthrough success—transforming your marketing strategy into a standalone profit center. What if everything we currently know about marketing is what is holding us back? Over the last two decades, we’ve watched the entire world change the way it buys and stays loyal to brands. But, marketing departments are still operating in the same, campaign-centric, product-led operation that they have been following for 75 years. The most innovative companies around the world have achieved remarkable marketing results by fundamentally changing their approach. By creating value for customers through the use of owned media and the savvy use of content, these businesses have dramatically increased customer loyalty and revenue. Some of them have even taken it to the next step and developed a marketing function that actually pays for itself. Killing Marketing explores how these companies are ending the marketing as we know it—in favor of this new, exciting model. Killing Marketing provides the insight, approaches, and examples you need to understand these disruptive forces in ways that turn your marketing from cost center to revenue creator. This book builds the case for, literally, transforming the purpose of marketing within your organization. Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose of the Content Marketing Institute show how leading companies are able sell the very content that propels their marketing strategy. You’ll learn how to: * Transform all or part of your marketing operation into a media company * Integrate this new operation into traditional marketing efforts * Develop best practices for attracting and retaining audiences * Build a strategy for competing against traditional media companies * Create a paid/earned media strategy fueled by an owned media strategy Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson, Disney and Arrow Electronics have succeeded in what ten years ago would have been deemed impossible. They continue to market their products as they always have, and, through their content-driven and audience-building initiatives, they drive value outside the day-to-day products they sell—and monetize it directly. Killing Marketing rewrites the rules of marketing—enabling you to make the kind of transition that turns average companies into industry legends.


Word by Word

Word by Word

Author: Kory Stamper

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 110197026X

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“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.


Ask For It

Ask For It

Author: Linda Babcock

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2009-01-27

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0553384554

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From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, here is the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiating anything effectively using strategies that feel comfortable to you as a woman. Whether it’s a raise, that overdue promotion, an exciting new assignment, or even extra help around the house, this four-phase program, backed by years of research and practical success, will show you how to recognize how much more you really deserve, maximize your bargaining power, develop the best strategy for your situation, and manage the reactions and emotions that may arise—on both sides. Guided step-by-step, you’ll learn how to draw on your special strengths to reach agreements that benefit everyone involved. This collaborative, problem-solving approach will propel you to new places both professionally and personally—and open doors you thought were closed.


Top of Mind (PB)

Top of Mind (PB)

Author: John Hall

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2017-04-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1260011933

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A game-changing framework for staying top of mind with your audience―from the No. 1 company dominating content marketing What do many successful businesses and leaders have in common? They’re the first names that come to mind when people think about their particular industries. How do you achieve this level of trust that influences people to think of you in the right way at the right time? By developing habits and strategies that focus on engaging your audience, creating meaningful relationships, and delivering value consistently, day in and day out. It’s the winning approach John Hall used to build Influence & Co. into one of “America’s Most Promising Companies,” according to Forbes. In this step-by-step guide, he shows you how to use content to keep your brand front and center in the minds of decision makers who matter. He reveals: • how consumer needs and expectations have changed and what this shift means for you • how to build a helpful, authentic, and consistent brand that serves others just as well as it serves you • proven methods for using digital content to enrich your target audience’s lives in ways that build real, lasting trust Whether you’re a marketing leader engaging an audience of potential customers, a business leader looking to humanize your company brand, or an industry up-and-comer seeking to build influence, maintaining a prominent spot in your audience’s minds will increase the likelihood that the moment they need to make a choice, you’ll be the first one they call. There’s no better way to drive opportunities that result in increased revenue and growth. Business is never “just” business. It’s always about relationships. It’s always about a human connection. When you’re viewed as a valuable, trustworthy partner, the opportunities are endless. Position yourself for success by establishing and developing content-driven relationships that keep you and your brand Top of Mind.