– By Steve Robins
Continued from The Solution Marketing Blog: Is Your SEO Worth $315 Million?
Let’s take a look at the Huffington Post’s SEO strategy as described by the NY Times, and see how it applies to solution marketing:
– By Steve Robins
The Huffington Post’s SEO strategy offers great lessons for any solution marketer. Last week, AOL agreed to purchase the Huffington Post for a cool $315 million. According to the NY Times,
The Huffington Post’s skill at using [SEO] tactics to increase readership and revenue was one of the ways it made itself worth $315 million to AOL.
– By Steve Robins
Industry transformation offers valuable lessons for solution marketers. In fact, industry transformation often gets at the very heart of what a solution is and the benefit that it provides to customers.
Media in transition. With the advent of the Web (not exactly a new thing by now), social media (which they’re all trying to understand) and now tablet devices, the media and entertainment industry continues to transform itself. It’s been a long slog as many companies have failed to make the transition to the digital age, believing that their product was inextricable from its medium. Continue reading
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– By Steve Robins
Rather than focusing on feeds and speeds, competitive comparisons, or sexy features, BMW’s Joy campaign focuses on the benefit that the entire automotive solution provides to BMW drivers: Joy.
“We realized a long time ago that what you make people feel is as important as what you make, and at BMW we don’t just makes cars, we make joy.”
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 Steve Robins has been helping companies to transform their marketing focus from technology platforms to customer solutions -- for over 10 years as a tech analyst and marketer at EMC Documentum, KANA and The Yankee Group. More... |
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