New Rules of Marketing and PR
Date: 28 April 2011, 04:48
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At the height of the dot-com boom, I was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corporation, a NASDAQ-traded online news distributor with more than $70 million in annual revenue. My multimillion-dollar marketing budget included tens of thousands of dollars per month for a public relations agency, hundreds of thousands per year for print advertising and glossy collateral materials, and expensive participation at a dozen trade shows a year. My team put these things on our marketing to-do list, worked like hell to execute, and paid the big bucks because that’s what marketing and PR people did. These efforts made us feel good because we were doing something, but the programs were not producing significant, measurable results. At the same time, drawing on experience I had gained in my previous position as Asia marketing director for the online division of Knight-Ridder, then one of the largest newspaper companies in the world, my team and I quietly created content-based, “thought leadership” marketing and PR programs on the Web. Against the advice of the PR agency professionals we had on retainer (who insisted that press releases were only for the press), we wrote and sent dozens of releases ourselves. Each time we sent a release, it appeared on online services such as Yahoo!, resulting in sales leads. Even though our advertising agency told us not to put the valuable information “somewhere where competitors could steal it,” we created a monthly newsletter called TheEdge about the exploding world of digital news and made it freely available on the homepage of our Web site because it generated interest from buyers, the media, and analysts. Way back in the 1990s, when Web marketing and PR was in its infancy
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