Do deadlines still matter? You might think not—especially if you work in the DevOps world. After all, DevOps has kind of killed deadlines. The whole continuous delivery concept does away with the idea of rigid development schedules characterized by tight deadlines. In DevOps, you’re supposed…
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Writing meaningful content is hard. Choosing what to write about is even harder—especially in the influencer marketing business. How do you pick topics that your expert writers can discuss compellingly, and that readers will find engaging? How do you strike the right balance between timely…
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Effective content distribution is essential to the success of an influencer marketing campaign. While structuring influencer content with the right keywords and links for search engine optimization and discoverability will help, SEO alone is not sufficient. As our Influencer Whisperer, Chris Tozzi, has pointed out,…
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Influencer content marketing is gaining traction as a strategy for business-to-business (B2B) marketing. Its origins in business-to-consumer (B2C) influencer marketing may result in misguided efforts to identify influencers, however. This is particularly true in very specific technical markets like DevOps, SecOps, and Big Data. As…
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Managing the influencer content stream is tricky. You need a content schedule, but it may be hard to enforce since your influencers don’t work for you. You also need to make sure topic generation is strong and follows a strategy, but that’s a challenge if…
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With every passing day, the cyber security threat landscape continues to expand as new threats are introduced that target infrastructure and data. As stewards of their organizations’ secure information architecture, CIOs are increasingly challenged by the ever-increasing need to adapt to the changing security landscape…
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The demand for influencer marketing is huge. But how it is approached often looks like the wild, wild west, especially in Tech. So it’s no surprise that tool services and the tool market are developing around companies like Fixate. In this market, one area of…
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Here’s the plan: Cultivate a cadre of influencers, have them produce content at a high volume, and break through the noise. Watch the sales numbers shoot through the roof. Inside your company, demonstrate the value of marketing, and run around the SaaS world, attracting customers…
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As someone who both freelances and manages a network of freelancers, I think I have a good grasp of the pros and cons of working with them. Here’s one of the biggest cons: If left to their own devices, freelancers have a tendency to drift…
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