CHAPTER 5The Business Case for Content Marketing
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Even though content marketing is not new by any stretch, it’s a fairly young discipline. That means there are a number of marketers and business owners who need to be persuaded into trying content marketing for the first time.
Robert Rose, lead author of Managing Content Marketing, makes the argument that the content marketing business case takes on the same components as a proper business plan.
1. What’s the need? What do you hope to accomplish with your content marketing?
2. How big a need is it? Is the need big enough to build an entire plan around it?
3. What’s the business model? How does it work? What do you have to do? ...
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