Content Marketing Today

It’s Alive! Our New Book Has Been Turned Loose upon the Marketing World!

And the experts like it.  They really, really like it.

Yes, it’s true. Get Content. Get Customers. has completed its surprisingly long gestation period.  Joe and I are very proud parents.  We just hope that everyone else thinks our baby is as beautiful as we do.

Actually, we’re genuinely encouraged because some very smart marketing and publishing experts have read the prerelease version of the book and they have been pretty complimentary about what we had to say.  This is encouraging, because when you’re writing a book, you are totally immersed in the project and in what you are attempting to communicate. So, it is difficult to be objective about your literary bundle of joy.

Here are the mini-reviews that tell us that we are very much on the right track in evangelizing the need to develop and deploy content marketing strategies pervasively. Once again, Joe and I want to express our thanks to each of the marketing experts who invested a significant chunk of their valuable time to read and comment on Get Content. Get Customers.

Feedback from the experts

“Pulizzi and Barrett have taken Integrated Marketing Communications to the next level with Get Content. Get Customers. The book includes how to combine old and new marketing, online and offline, print and electronic in innovative and useful ways. Every marketer, large or small, can use this text to build better on-going customer relationships.”

— Don Schultz, Professor Emeritus in Service, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University

“Turning prospects into customers used to mean interrupting people with your company’s product messages. But it was tough to break through the clutter. The Web allows smart marketers a better way: create compelling content that people actually want to consume. Pulizzi and Barrett show you how to create and deliver content and they provide dozens of examples of success to learn from.”

— David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR

“Content marketing may be the most revolutionary obvious idea you’ll ever hear … that marketing works better when you actually have something to say. For those who are seeking to add a personality to their brand, this essential book will take you beyond white papers and give you a roadmap to making content a bigger part of all your marketing. Deftly navigating the worlds of PR, advertising and marketing — Joe and Newt prove that the real secret to great marketing is not a brilliant tagline, but creating compelling and useful content.”

— Rohit Bhargava, SVP of Digital Marketing at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence and Author of Personality Not Included

“Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett take one of the core concepts of new marketing — that providing consumers with valuable content trumps bombarding them with irrelevant advertising — and give brands a treasure trove of tips, tricks, best practices and actionable approaches for using original online and offline content as a weapon in the battle for bottom line results. Get Content. Get Customers. provides a play-by-play for any marketer who is serious about breaking away from the pack, upsetting the status quo and moving beyond interruption marketing by offering compelling content that delivers real value for consumers and real revenue for their companies.”

— Greg Verdino, chief strategy officer of crayon, LLC and marketing blogger at www.gregverdino.com

“Get Content. Get Customers. highlights the role content plays in making YOUR customers tick, click and stick. An eye opening book that takes you through a step by step strategy to enhance your content and to connect to your customers through words, pictures, sound and video. If creating great content that serves your customer and your customer’s customer is important, this book is for you.”

— Samir Husni, aka “Mr. Magazine”^™, Chair of the Journalism Department, University of Mississippi

“When it comes to online marketing, you’ve got to reach people with what is desired and valued (content) instead of what is despised and ignored (advertising). Online, great content is effective advertising, and smart marketers are the new media. The trick to content marketing is getting your message across while keeping people engaged, and you’re about to discover exactly how to do that with this book.”

— Brian Clark, copyblogger.com

“As we rapidly enter the Post-Advertising Age, marketers are scrambling to find new ways to engage their brands with customers, amid the growing realization that the old ways are dead. If intrusion is dead and consumers are in control, Get Content. Get Customers. brilliantly manages the feat of combining the theory of engaging customers through content marketing along with alarmingly simple and practical approaches to doing it. All of this is clearly and intelligently illustrated through many different case studies. For marketers who understand that narrative marketing is the only marketing left but are struggling to understand how to do it, Get Content. Get Customers. finally offers the solution.”

— Simon Kelly, chief operating officer, Story Worldwide

And I know what you’re thinking!

The answer is: Yes, you can now buy the book either directly from our website, www.getcontentgetcustomers.com or from Amazon.com 

The content marketing tsunami has begun to roll in from the ocean.  Not to worry.  Once you have the book, you will be able to surf successfully.