The road to creating an expert STM community might be littered with pitfalls, wrong turns and long, meandering detours – but we all know the reward is worth it. By turning readers into paid subscribers, STM publishers have an opportunity to connect with their readers, convert participation into commercial opportunities, and gather the data they […]
Great content isn’t enough to keep audiences interested anymore. Every minute there are over 156 million emails being sent, 16 million text messages, 456,000 Tweets, and over 4.1 million YouTube videos being watched. That’s a lot for publishers to compete with. But publishers must cut through the noise. They play a critical role for their […]
Originally billed as the ‘email killer’ when it first launched in 2013, Slack had an impact like no workplace instant messenger before it; well not since Email. First introduced as a way to reduce internal email, early adopters of the platform claimed to have eradicated them from their companies entirely. By mid-2014, Slack had over […]
Originally published as part of the Community Marketing report by Zapnito and B2B Marketing. Download the full report here. With so many platforms and services competing for attention in the online marketplace, engaging customers can be a challenge. Attempting to connect with an audience across a fragmented set of social media channels is a struggle, leading […]
Originally published as part of the Community Marketing report by Zapnito and B2B Marketing. Download the full report here. 1. It’s too difficult to monetize One of the biggest ROI challenges facing community- based marketing is striking the balance between creating a burgeoning, value-add community, while also pulling in the revenue to keep it going. Sway […]
So you’ve got your online community mapped out. You’ve allocated staff to maintain it, established your KPIs and found a platform that suits the needs of your organization and customers. The next step is building it. This can be a difficult part of the process of forming an online community and requires some tough decisions […]
Click here to download the eBook for free. “When everybody is an expert, nobody is.” It’s been over fifty years since the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created a packet-based system of online communication which became what we now know as the internet. A lot has changed over the course of five decades – […]