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The joy of small audiences in B2B
B2B folk, how do you measure your content? Funnily enough, if you’re one of the rare professionals who says, “We don’t”, you get a pass. For now. The worse answer…
Read MoreThe $$$ is in the detail
The devil is in the detail, they say. But sometimes it’s the good stuff you find in the detail – in work or play. I recently visited several universities with…
Read MoreTerrified of tariffs? Scared of sanctions? Antsy about AI? Mulling mergers? Rueful of regulation? Edgy about your ESG and DEI positions? The world has changed. You need to refresh your…
Read More“Oh yeah we do content too”
I’ve got an earworm. If you don’t know, an earworm is a part of a song – a melody, a key lyric etc. – that you can’t get out of…
Read MoreI recently flew on British Airways, and much as I wanted to write a piece about the decline of in-flight magazines — one of the great forms of brand publication…
Read MoreWhy do your customers choose you? This is one of the biggest questions in business. Companies that don’t know the answer are flying blind. We always ask this question of…
Read MoreTrust. Some would say everything has always been based on trust. From a member of the tribe guarding the cave opening at night while you sleep to… less important but…
Read More11 best content marketing links Q4 24
1. Your ‘critical thinking’ makes you unique – and GenAI can’t help you with that This was another big year for Collective Content’s ongoing efforts to make sense of and…
Read MoreSuccessful habits of great content marketers
What we learned from this year’s CMI B2B content marketing report The 2025 issue of the annual Content Marketing Institute (CMI) B2B Content Marketing Outlook report has been eagerly awaited…
Read MoreOne way to get large partner content programmes right is to consider the ways they can go wrong. Just to say it up front… my editor told me I should…
Read MoreAlmost exactly a year ago, we published a piece titled Why we have a GenAI policy – and why you should too. The blog post introduced our formal guidelines for…
Read MorePlenty of our clients have in-house content teams or even whole units dedicated to thought leadership, featuring some of the smartest people around. So why do they need us? In…
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