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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