On February 14th, it’s hard to keep your mind focused on work. If you’re like me, you were wondering if the flowers, candy, and teddy bear you ordered would get delivered to your wife on time, or if the butcher would have any steaks left by the time you made it to the market after work. Frankly the last thing on my mind was the possibilities enabled when we connect people, processes, data and things, also known as the Internet of Everything (#IoE).
This Valentine’s Day, Cisco’s Social Media Marketing team leveraged a broadly engaging topic that very few people would associate with the Internet of Everything through real-time marketing. Read More »
Tags: Cisco, content marketing, Internet of Everything, IoE, Real-time Marketing, social media, social media listening, Tomorrow Starts Here, Valentine's Day
Many companies are starting to hire journalists, or experienced columnists with domain knowledge, to help them increase the appetite for and influence of their corporate blogs. Without a doubt, your storylines must be of interest to your target audience and contain meaningful substance within your editorial text. Yes, this is a no-brainer. But there are other things you can do to increase your reach if you’re a big company, or get noticed if you’re a small company. Consider guest blogging. Better yet, consider self-publishing on major media sites.
Huh? Guest blogging just means that you plug into an already existing blog on a third-party site. Self-publishing on major media sites is a different animal. The Service Provider Marketing organization at Cisco has been using a hybrid model of offering traditional press releases to editors and self-published content themselves for about a year. “It’s not paid media and it’s not a typical blog post”, says David Deans (@dhdeans), the champion of self publishing in Cisco’s Service Provider Marketing group. Then what is it? Read More »
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