Yet Another Article on the Importance of Content

Submitted by Jean E. Gazis on Tue, 2010-01-19 17:46.

This week's Chief Marketer piece on the lessons social media marketers can learn from email marketers leads off with, you guessed it, a plug for compelling content. "Regardless of the channel—e-mail, social media, print, television, radio – there will always be one indisputable truth: content is king." And how did I find this piece of relevant content I'm now sharing with you? In an email newsletter, of course — which just proves the point that strong and relevant content can get you noticed and take you places.

Quote of the Day

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

— J. G. Ballard