Paul Harvey - A Content Marketing Icon

Paul Harvey is world renowned for his short radio segments which was his ticket to fame and success. We now realize he was a content marketer extraordinaire.

Paul Harvey, an American Icon for over 50 years, known best for "the rest of the story" and his classic ending to each broadcast: Good Day!

Nine years ago in the year 2000, when he was 82 years old he signed a 10 year, 100 million dollar contract with ABC and completed all but the last year of it when he passed away at age 89 in early 2009.

You read that correctly - a one hundred million dollar contract! Don't you think that if we're going to follow the lead of someone in marketing and advertising that this is one great choice. Well, we'll all follow him to his ultimate destination but what I mean is his personal technique as content niche marketer extraordinaire.

You see Paul Harvey was a premier marketer long before the internet. He found a niche, provided great content and consistently met the wants of his niche market day after day after day.

Sound Familiar?

Isn't this the strategy we read and hear about every day that we now have named web 2.0? Paul Harvey just did it naturally. He didn't need a name for it - and as for you and me, we should consider seriously following his lead if we want to compete in a crowded marketplace.

Who else could make an advertisement for popcorn and make it sound like breaking news right off the press! And when you realized it was an advertisement you weren't angry but rather... a smile slowly drew itself around your lips ...and since the advertisers paid dearly for his commercials the hearers were obviously remembering and / or responding to those uniquely spoken ads.

Paul Harvey only had a high school education when he was hired for his first gig for $29.50 per week reading the lead into the broadcast for the Saturday Matinee at the Metropolitan Opera.

He believed in hard work!

He hated big government!

And while he stood for conservative values was never really seen as being "political"!

His last broadcast was made just a few days prior to his death while lying quietly in the Mayo Clinic.

This legends' 70 year career is phenomenal and he taught all of us gurus long ago what it took many of us a lifetime to learn - Find your niche, provide excellent content, be consistent, honest and hard working and you can market yourself to the great heights you deserve.

Read the entire story entitled 'Good Day! Paul Batura has written the book, The Paul Harvey Story. So, pick it up for a great read to better understand this icon who understood niche content marketing long ago before most of us even knew we were always being marketed by great lead-in content.

About the Author:
Jack Funderburk has owned, operated and helped others start offline businesses for nearly 30 years. He now mentors and teaches business building principles online. To learn more download Jack's book, Building a Purposeful Business Online at his site:
http://Building-Businesses-Online.com

Paul Harvey - A Content Marketing Icon

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