Most of January 2014 has seen a debate raging over Mark Schaefer’s “Content Shock” blog post in the content marketing community.
If you haven’t been following this debate through the hundreds of comments and more than 75 follow up blog posts and podcasts, here’s the short version:
According to Mark, new content output is exceeding consumers’ ability to—well—consume it.… Read more
The brouhaha surrounding the recent blog post by Mark Schaefer about “Content Shock” pushed me to finally write this post. I’ve been holding off some time, mostly because I didn’t want to be accused of being a “Negative Nancy.”
People in sales (and, to a lesser extent, marketing) tend to immerse themselves in a cult of positivity, most likely because it’s so damn hard for many salespeople to keep plugging away every day, facing frustration and rejection.… Read more