Why Every Business Now Needs to be a Media Brand

What does your brand have in common with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian?

If you’re doing inbound marketing the right way, quite a lot.

“But wait,” you object, “I don’t publish the news! I sell widgets/services/[fill-in-the-blank]! That’s totally different!”

What’s becoming apparent to many though is that in today’s world of marketing, every company should be a media company.

To understand why, let’s take a look at the current situation in the media industry and how it differs from years past.

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Inbound Marketing for beginners – Part 1

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The advertising industry has long been the butt of jokes, particularly because the excesses it has enjoyed stemming from the big-spending media culture of the 80’s.  For the time that I have worked in the industry I have always felt unease with the fact that success was essentially based on my ability to create campaigns that tricked people into buying a product.

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