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Brand or sell? Entice or inform? Taking a Topical Approach to Blogging - Expio

Brand or Sell? Entice or Inform? Taking a Topical Approach to Blogging

[author title="About the Author"] Brand or Sell? “Branding” has become one of the murkiest marketing terms on the Internet. It can basically mean anything. Branded content can mean a dozen different things. Branding can easily become inbred company rhetoric that only increases customer boredom. But branding can also lead to a direct approach to blogging that helps users get what they need. For our purposes, we’ll refer to branding as any written emphasis that speaks directly about a business or its services. In...

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“Picture yourself at sea, a hostile ship bearing…

“Picture yourself at sea, a hostile ship bearing down on you. You have a limited amount of gunpowder. You take all your gunpowder and use it to fire a big cannonball. The cannonball flies out over the ocean … and misses the target, off by 40 degrees. You turn to your stockpile and discover that you’re out of gunpowder. You die.”   It's obvious that in this new world of online media, businesses are making Facebook and Twitter (as well as many...

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