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Epic Content Marketing
The book in one sentence
Stop interrupting people with advertising and start earning their attention with genuinely useful content, published consistently, until they choose to buy from you.
Who it's for
Small business owners, marketers and founders who are tired of paying for ads that get ignored, and who want a strategy, not just a social media habit.
The big idea
Customers have learned to tune out sales messages. What they still pay attention to is information that helps them do their jobs or live their lives better. Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute, argues that any business can become a publisher: build an audience by solving its problems, and the sales follow. This isn’t new. He points to long-running examples such as John Deere’s farming magazine The Furrow, launched in the 1890s, to show that brands have done this for well over a century. What has changed is that digital channels let anyone do it cheaply.
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