4 Types of Media to Enhance Your Multichannel Marketing

There are four categories of media that help shape and define multichannel marketing—an essential strategy to use to expand marketing outreach. While 95 percent of marketers say they know how important multichannel marketing is for reaching their target audiences, only 73 percent say they have a multichannel program in place.

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Balanced reporting

Presenting balanced reporting has been one of the most important jobs of journalists for hundreds of years. While some stories are relatively straightforward (“Car hits pedestrian”), even the most cut-and-dried event can become subject to bias and interpretation by the reporter, whether intentional or not. For example, “Car hits pedestrian” can be portrayed as “Careless

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The medium is the message

Any communications student at one of America’s universities know Marshall McLuhan’s famous dictate, “The medium is the message,” which means that how a message is communicated influences how it is received. In other words, the medium is inseparable from its content, and the two influence one another. American author William Faulkner, writer of classics like

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Anthropomorphizing Mother Nature

The Weather Channel announced in early October that it would be taking up the practice of naming storms this coming winter. No big deal, right? After all, “summer” storms—that is to say, tropical cyclones—have been given names by the National Weather Service (NWS) for decades. Every year, the NWS releases a list of what the

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“The general erosion of editorial standards”

Lauren Indvik posted a piece on Mashable Business this week titled “Magazine Get Serious About Ecommerce” in which she examines the approaches a few different pubs have taken to combine editorial content with links to products in an effort to get consumers purchasing and offset declining print ad sales. In this piece, Indvik writes: It’s

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Push vs. Pull Media

A few years ago (eons in the digital world) the term “push and pull” media was a well-known marketing phrase. “Push” media were phenomena like television and radio that were delivered to the consumer without much interaction on their part. “Pull” media was content the consumer had to actively seek out and extract for themselves:

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The arbiter of the news?

Robert Niles’ excellent blog posting “A journalist’s guide to the scientific method – and why it’s important” contains good information about the struggle to present factual, accurate information in a news world increasingly dominated by social networking and media bias. For example, people far from the epicenter of the recent Virginia earthquake learned about it

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