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How To Gain True Influence by Leveraging the Power of Relationships

How To Gain True Influence by Leveraging the Power of Relationships | Internet Marketing Strategy 2.0 | Scoop.it

"If you define influence by the size of your Klout score, you can stop reading this right now..."


Via janlgordon
Robin Good's insight:


Fundamentals of effective marketing: to be influential, you must be known, accepted and trusted. But, how do you get there?

Brian Clark has the right answers to this one.



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Intriguing Networks's curator insight, July 1, 2013 6:45 AM

Great stuff

Caroline Price's comment, July 16, 2013 5:59 AM
yes...some people are worthy of respect; others less so...
Therese Matthys's comment, July 16, 2013 12:34 PM
Caroline - so true!
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Tell a Great Story, Forget About Branded Content | Forbes

Tell a Great Story, Forget About Branded Content | Forbes | Internet Marketing Strategy 2.0 | Scoop.it
Image via Wikipedia In a few short years, our ability to forcibly interrupt consumers with our advertising is going to be greatly diminished.  There will be more channels, more content across more screens, and many fewer interruptive ads.  Yes, we...

 

What great insights this article has! We already know storytelling is key to successful marketing but the author goes even further when saying, "But the concept of branded content is fundamentally flawed. By definition, branded content doesn’t even need to be good content. As long as we remain focused on creating something “branded,” we are missing the entire reason consumers are watching in the first place. It is a very subtle idea that requires brand managers and CMOs to shake off some of their core beliefs about how we talk to our customers."

 

And, "It’s not logical to think that consumers will ever volunteer to watch or share our marketing, so let’s stop making marketing and instead start telling stories. We need to unshackle ourselves from old formats and embrace an idea that has existed since humans first began communicating."

 

Read the article for other great words of wisdom -- along with understanding the bleak future of marketing and advertising if we don't shift business efforts into becoming story-centric.

 

The only piece that's missing in this post is any discussion about the fundamental dynamic of storytelling:  story sharing. It seems the author is still focused on broadcasting stories instead of engaging in swapping stories with customers (i.e. listening to their stories in return).

 

But one step at a time :) ....

janlgordon's comment, December 5, 2011 1:06 PM
Hi Robin,
Excellent piece! I love your observations and agree with you - "brands need to engage in swapping stories and listen to their stories in return"
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, December 5, 2011 10:00 PM
Thanks Khaled. Marty
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Find Out Where You Can Publish Targeted Guest Posts Automatically

Robin Good: Ethan Lyon at YouMoz has put together a great simple tool inside a Gdoc spreadsheet (public, free and open) that allows you to automatically find sites and blogs where you can make guest posts.


Guest posts on other quality and thematically-relevant sites is an effective strategy to build quality incoming links to your site.


I have tried out this litte great gem and I must say: it does work. You simply input the keyword representing the topic you want to write guest posts for, and the spreadsheet automatically kicks out URLs that you can go and check out right away.


This great tool scans Twitter to find messages that offer opportunities for guest posts and lists them for you.


Superuseful. 9/10


Go try it out now:

http://ow.ly/8x9gF (make sure to make a copy first)


Read the guide: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/want-guest-post-links-find-them-via-twitter-tool 

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