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The Welder

Notes from WELD's Laboratory


Product, Or Passion?

How Content Marketing Gets You In Your Competitor’s Community

December 13, 2011 by Reid Williams

I discover a Salomon skiing video on the Facebook page of a competitor’s brand and ask, can content marketing do anything more powerful than that?

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When Features Don’t Sell, Time To Sell Story

November 3, 2011 by Reid Williams

The product life-cycle — from launch, to growth, to maturity — holds true even for outdoor industries. When you can’t sell features anymore, sell story.

photo by bixentro/Flickr Creative Commons

Hero Marketing Is Dead, Long Live Content Marketing

October 26, 2011 by Brandon Holmes

For too long, much of the action-outdoor industry has depended on “hero marketing,” when we should be shifting to empathetic storytelling.

Teva: Live Better Stories

How A Corporation Found Its Soul

October 20, 2011 by Brandon Holmes

Just because outdoor brands go big doesn’t mean they lose their soul. The “Teva Turnaround” is a great example of content marketing that speaks to the soul.

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Soul Factory: The Action-Outdoor Industry’s Greatest Asset

October 18, 2011 by Brandon Holmes

Brandon continues an expansion of the keynote address he gave at the 2011 Whitewater Symposium last week. How do you make content that connects: a soul factory.

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How Action Sports Industries Can Surge Through Content Marketing

October 17, 2011 by Brandon Holmes

My presentation at the 2011 Whitewater Symposium got a lot of people talking last week, so I decided to expand on some of my comments in a series of posts.