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10 WAYS TO FEED YOUR CONTENT BEAST
January 19th, 2012
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OVERVIEW 1. The Problem: Hungry Beast
• Why content? • How to produce enough? • What is enough?
2. The Solution: Well-fed Beasts • Content Creation • Content Curation • 10 Content Tips & Tricks
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Hungry Beasts The Problem:
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Why Content?
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Website Visitors
Customers
Website Visitors
Leads
Customers!
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• Thought leadership • Brand awareness • Your own perspective • Support lead generation • Topic resource and authority
BENEFITS OF CONTENT
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How do you produce enough?
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Difficult to feed the Beast
I’m hungry!
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Time to do it Finding topics for original
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What is enough content?
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I’m full!
Well-fed Beasts The Solution:
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Content Creation is hard !
! but here are a few ways to make it easier.
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CONTENT CURATION
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“A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.” - Rohit Bhargava, Ogilvy
CONTENT CURATION DEFINITION
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CONTENT CURATION: HOW TO DO IT
Find Organize
Industry News
Industry Blogs Topic Site
Topic Email Newsletter
Topic Social Media
An Online B2B Marketing Process
Industry Social Media
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“We doubled our traffic this quarter over last.”
“We have e-newsletter open rates of 20-25% and more than doubled newsletter subscriptions in only 4 months!”
“I’ve tried to do this [have a curated site] before, and the cost would have been astronomical – even just the interface would be $5,000 - $10,000; it would probably require a full-time staff member working on it, and we spend maybe 20 minutes to an hour a week working on it.”
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10 CONTENT TIPS & TRICKS
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#1 Get into the content mindset
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#2 Tweetable Facts
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#3 Don’t try to be Hemingway
Instead, try to be useful.
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#4 Conduct a poll or survey
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#5 Don’t make one person carry the load
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At HubSpot 130/300 employees blog.
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#6 GUEST POST
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#7 Re-use your best old content.
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#8 Conduct an interview
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#9 Test Your Content
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#10 Create an infographic
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