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FedEx Jingle Studio Marries Viral Video with Facebook Marketing

Women on Business

ADVERTORIAL: Integrated marketing is so hot these days that when a representative from FedEx’s viral marketing team contacted me to ask if I’d discuss the new FedEx Jingle Studio campaign with the Women on Business audience, I was intrigued. This post is a paid advertorial sponsored by FedEx via Goviral (an AOL brand).

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource. But when I finally reached the corner office, I was alone, and rather than join a Presidents’ forum such as YPO, I turned to the periodicals of America’s best business schools.

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Brand journalism 101: Tell a Better Story

Women on Business

Naysayers, on the other hand, begrudge brand journalism for its diminished objectivity and advertorial tone. Brands, of course, love it, because it enables them to bypass the media and take their message directly to the public in hopes of building a relationship with customers that will positively impact the bottom line.

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(20 Steps to) Effective Media Relations

Women on Business

Unless it’s paid editorial (advertorial or sponsored post), or you’re a government official, there’s no obligation for the writer to show you the story beforehand. If you don’t want to scare a reporter away, lose the whining or fawning. And by all means, do not demand to see the story before it goes to print.

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Success and Discomfort

CEO Blog

I was prepared for an advertorial. It is a privilege to be able to work out. + And my book suggestion for the day is As One - Individual Action Collective Power by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley. I did not even particularly like the title. But I was wrong - this is an outstanding book. The book introduces 8 archetypes.

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Practicing the Spirit of the Law: Serve Your Customer Better

Strategy Driven

Another example, what would you consider an advertorial? Is an advertorial legal—yes. The agent was so impressed by the owner’s ethical behavior that he made the firm extremely wealthy as the government’s main supplier of building materials. It’s an advertisement camouflaged to appear as a feature article. But is it ethical?—no!

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Social Media is Broken.

CEO Blog

Add value to the reader then you can be advertorial. Without a following, the best content does not get read. I think social media needs to be at least 80% for the value of the reader. Even then, you often do not need to be overt about it. It ties to an article I wrote a few years ago on the fallacy of ROI in marketing.

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