Content marketing institute just released a list of interesting predictions by 80 different social & digital media gurus with the focus on the relationship between brand and content, the evolution of blogging, the future of Google’s influence, content marketing and distribution.
What I love about the list the most, is he following magnificent twelve whose predictions screams of my new gig, awesomize.me business model launched earlier this year:
1. Ahava Leibtag with ahamediagroup.com (slide 4)
2. Ali Goldfield with dialing8.com (slide 6)
3. Ana Hoffman with trafficgenerationcafe.com (slide9)
4. Dan Blank with wegrowmedia.com (slide18)
5. Gail Gardner with Growmap.com (slide 28)
6. Larry Kunz (Slide 48)
7. Joe Chernov with blog.eloqua.com (slide 41)
8. Elizabeth Quintanilla with eqconsultantsgroup.com (slide 17)
9. Manya Chylinski with alley424.com (slide 50)
10. Robert Rose with bigbluemoose.net (slide 65)
11. Scott Frangos with scottgoogleplus.Info (slide 70)
12. Tamar Weinberg with techipedia.com (slide 76)
Here is the slide:
Social Media & Content Marketing Predictions 2012
In 2011, companies started using social media in earnest and began experimenting with ways to influence their rankings using these social factors. Next year in 2012, for companies looking to improve their rankings, social marketing activities will no longer be an optional thing, they will be a necessity thing.
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