The Josh Gordon Group blog

Is your company newsletter "all about us"?

Posted by Josh Gordon on Tue, Nov 4, 2014 @ 15:11 PM

How many company sponsored newsletters are regularly read? Since most are promotional content packaged in newsletter form, not many. These, "all about us" newsletters contain news about the marketer’s new products and new sales as well as stories about company personnel, testimonials, and user stories.

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Topics: marketing, newsletters, promotional tool, subscription

User stories: great for sales support, poor for SEO or converting sales leads

Posted by Josh Gordon on Tue, Nov 4, 2014 @ 15:11 PM

Of all the content that companies create for marketing, “user stories” confuse the most. The confusion comes from its extremely uneven performance at different marketing functions.

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Topics: content, content marketing, problem solving, marketing, seo, sales, user stories, case studies, content usage

Which content is most persuasive? Free on demand webinar

Posted by Josh Gordon on Fri, Jun 27, 2014 @ 11:06 AM

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Topics: webinar, marketing, digital media, marketing effectiveness, marketing content, educational content, BrightTALK, consumer habits, marketing campaigns

When marketers look at you, what do they see?

Posted by Josh Gordon on Fri, Apr 18, 2014 @ 12:04 PM

This article ran on the Broadcast Engineering magazine website August 8, 2013 as the editor’s pick of the week:

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Topics: marketing, metrics, security study, polls, apps, promotional information, security industry, SIA, digital magazines, advertising, trade magazines, print media, educational information

A marketing manager's incomplete guide to sidewalk signs

Posted by Josh Gordon on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 15:02 PM

I love sidewalk signs! They are the purest from of marketing. Write a good one you can literally motivate customers to walk in you door. Where I live in Brooklyn I walk by many every day. Here are some quick marketing reviews of several I've passed recently.

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Topics: marketing, Brooklyn, Valentines, humor, marketing plan, motivating customers, marketing effectiveness, Smith St., Super Bowl, sidewalk signs