Google’s E-E-A-T Update and ChatGPT: Food for Thought

OpenAI had barely made the research edition of ChatGPT available to the public when marketers and media pundits began predicting that the generative AI wordsmith would (well) eat Google’s search business for breakfast. Now, with an “Extra E” update to its own E-A-T quality rater guidelines, Google bites back. We’re going to take a look […]

ChatGPT: What Every Content Marketer Needs to Know Now

An interaction with ChatGPT

The odds are that you’ve seen the buzz about ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI to generate human-like text based on the input it receives. It’s a variant of GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3), the machine learning model that’s considered to be one of the most advanced technologies for generating convincing, high-quality written […]

What B2B Marketers Should Do About Elon Musk’s Twitter, Right Now

This article contains recommendations that we stand by, as of 3pm ET on Friday, November 11. But the situation with Twitter is changing by the day. We’ll be refreshing this content as new developments cause us to rethink how marketers should move forward.     Twitter is pretty important to us, here at VERDINO. No, […]

Micromarketing Is the Ultimate ABM Strategy: Greg’s #B2BMX Keynote

Last week I had the pleasure of keynoting B2B Marketing Exchange: Next-Level ABM — the first edition of the popular B2BMX conference to focus specifically on best practices in account-based marketing. And the first to go entirely virtual in light of the pandemic. This keynote was a bit different from my typical talk. For starters, it drew heavily […]

A Simple Way to Clean Up Messy Content

Clean Up Content Messes

If your company has been creating content for any length of time, you’re probably sitting on a mountain of messy content — content that lacks consistency, content that suffers from ROT, even content that confuses your customers. And even if you’re brand new to content, you might be struggling with long production cycles, frustrated creators, […]

Content Is the Only Thing Your Company Has Left

Content Creates Companies

Seth Godin once said, “Content marketing is the only marketing left.” But this doesn’t mean that marketing is the only content your company creates. In fact, even more than the product or services you sell, content is the main thing your company creates. You read me right — your product or service, while obviously a vital piece […]

Content Creation is Costly. Content Consumption is Priceless.

Content Creation is Costly, Content Consumption is Priceless

Is your content marketing little more than content-making? Then odds are, your content team is acting as producers when they should be thinking like publishers. Too many content initiatives are measured by output. Not enough are measured by outcomes. The unit of creation becomes the unit of measure. Unchecked, this results in runaway production of low quality, […]

FREE EBOOK: 10 Times Wise Content Strategists Ask WHO?

10 Times Wise Content Strategists Ask WHO - eBook

Introducing our latest content strategy quick-read, 10 Times Wise Content Strategists Ask WHO? It’s based on our popular post with a similar name and brought to life in a handy ebook format. This is the second in a series that aims to help anyone interested content (not just content strategists and content marketers; business leaders too) ask […]

Mary Meeker’s Trend Report Fails As Content. Here’s How to Fix It.

Mary Meeker 2016 Internet Trends Report Fails As Content

Each year Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker releases her annual internet trends report. Each year, the tech press fawns over her findings. This year was no exception. But when you review her work through a content strategy lens, you find that no matter how well-researched her points are, the document itself fails as […]