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For a blog to be effective, you need to create quality and relevant content. And that is not an easy thing to do. Especially fo
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75% of marketers don’t have time to create custom content, according to Curata. Even if they do, time and resource constraints can limit velocity, quality, or marketers’ ability to effectively promote their branded assets.
Content Curation is the Cure
Today’s super-sharp marketers are investing heavily in content curation. By republishing and recasting existing content with full credit to the original source, you’re able to save time and resources while still providing extraordinary value to your audience.
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Content curation is key for Small To Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) online success & Scoop.it's new Content Director makes curation a marketing reality.
thought provoking, the Content Shock is worth further studying. Hard to argue about how production is far exceeding supply
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4 Principles of A Networked World
Macrowikinomics author Don Tapscott shares great examples of his 4 emerging principles of our new digital world including:
* Collaboration.
* Transparency.
* Sharing.
* Empowerment
Marty Note
I found the discussion of the commons and the example of starling flocking behavior (at the end) the most resonant. I'd heard about the gold mine several times and agree with Tapscott - crowds are the key to our web future.
At Curagami we've been working on what it means to create online community. CTSE (Collaboration, Transparency, Sharing, Empowerment) are the table stakes of this new poker. We would add:
* Communication.
* UGC.
* Gamification.
Communication within and around the hub is a CSF (Critical Success Factor) for online community. You need to be able to follow and communicate with me and vice versa.
User Generated Content must be listened to, valued and rewarded with gamification or its a one-time "one and done" thing.
Highly engaging presentation. Gone are the days of Security and Reliability as the principles of a Networked world. The C-generation is pulling us to the CTSE world.
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Brands are under attack by 5 Ninja:
* Death of Traditional Media.
* Mobile Me.
* Clean Slate Brands.
* Social Media is a Conversation.
* User Generated Content. and the rise of online communities.
What are the most powerful ninja attacking your marketing? How will you defeat attacking Ninja horde?
Coming from FMCG background, I can't help but notice the digitalization of Coupons.
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Can subscriptions help your online marketing smote the invisible SEO giant? Like Curagami subscriptions create immediate engagement with real customers.
Another intriguing piece of ever-changing marketing. The car renting app is a case-in-point in online subscription magic. But you can't go without deeply looking at the "Creating Ambassadors" bullet, details are still building the big picture
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There is a new invisible giant using 5 "tricks" so the "new seo" is getting harder and harder to see and understand. This Haiku Deck and Curatti blog post is about how to see the invisible giant. How to win hearts and minds online.
Why New SEO So Hard To See
* Google Float & Filter Bubbles.
* Social Media Marketing's Disappearing Act.
* Friends of Friends Marketing.
* Multi-channel Marketing.
* Web's "Fabric" Like Space/Time.
Adding a Curatti blog post at midnight tonight too.
Thought provoking on many fronts. The notion of need of predictive models (and other tools) to link content with visitors.
(From the article): Content Marketing is a tricky idea. You need to create authoritative content, but just enough that community is forming comfortably. Talk to much, in the wrong voice or at the wrong time sand you kill your fledgling community (easy to do).
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Become storytellers: Modern marketing is less about selling and more about creating brand experiences fueled by brand storytelling. You only have about eight seconds to catch consumers’ attention. To make those seconds count, thoroughly investigate your customers.
Some ways to do this: Start with exhaustive persona profiles to build buyer paths from high-level awareness down to purchase so that you’re creating the right types of offers to deliver the appropriate content at every stage of the buying process.
Persona research should include: raw data (surveys, internal sales, and analytics data), interviews with sales and support teams, and discussions with or polls sent to existing customers. Add Interest to Email. Despite news of its demise, email is still a marketing workhorse.
However, businesses must stop the “spray and pray” method in lieu of incorporating smarter strategies driven by automation to get the most out of the medium. Ways to standout in... keep reading
With detailed images, you can get the attention of up to 67% of your targeted audiences.
And,,,,,,,,you can download a free guide
Martin Smith again on the importance of Visual Content Marketing, Storytelling and Persona ! Really Worth Reading !
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Crowds, Icons & Tribes
The more we work our Startup Factory Funded statup http://www.Curagami.com the more every client needs a combination of :
* Crowds.
* Icons.
* Tribes.
Crowds bring wisdom. Remember how few were smarter than a class of 5th graders? Every websites most VAST under-utilized resource is the wisdom of crowds they AREN'T tapping.
Icons create the language that makes a crowd work just hard enough to feel exclusive and included. If anyone can join for free there is no perceived value. No perceived value means your visitors will click away. On the other hand, if you have a language only you and your tribe understand - that isn't too dense or complex - curiosity may catch the cat.
Finally tribes are everyone's end product. Tribes = sustainable web presence. Tribes means you can delegate JOBS to AMBASSADORS and get out of the way. Tribes means you are on your way to the land of get more, do less. Tribes are where we lucky few Internet marketers are headed and we are riding a bullet train called Curagami :). M
Crowd needs vision of a leader, or jump into chaos
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Content Curation is the "new marketing" & this post shares 6 reasons curating content should be your online marketing's elephant:
6 Reasons Content Curation Should Be Your Elephant
* Easy to curate content for any receiving device (great for mobile / social web).
* Encourages Sharing.
* More Reach Faster.
* Content Curation Great & Subtle Value Add.
* Great way to test.
* Protects valuable modeled digital assets.
How about you? Is content curation your digital marketing elephant? This post helps define content curation and shares 6 reasons why you will be curating more content next year than this:
http://www.curagami.com/featured/6-reasons-curation-becomes-elephant/
Post mentions Scoopiteer @Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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[Content Marketing, Must Read] Great slides by Rand Fishkin on what makes an effective content marketing strategy. He outlines 5 reasons why your strategy might fail: You believed the biggest myth content marketing ever told the world You made content without a community You invested in content creation, but not in it's amplification You ignored content's most powerful channel: SEO You gave up too fast
How content marketing works?
Get ready for the long, entertaining and highly informative trip. I like the section about "content without a community", a real eye opener.
Excellent and exhaustive punch to the gut of the many "content marketing" myths that exist. I would've added a section on Mark Schaefer's Content Shock, but that 1,000 word post is for another time. Between then (when I write the rejoinder) and now read Rand Fishkin's riff on why "inbound marketing" fails and see if you recognize some of your myths, urban legends and untruths about content marketing.
Love the almost RANDOM case view (see the beard slides) since that journey is so accurate to how journeys start, are sustained and end up in a purchase or subscription.
Also discusses visual marketing tend in a cool way (nope, nope, yes on Google).
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Ask two content marketers about long-form content and you’ll likely get two completely different responses. The first might say that long-form content is a gamble, given audiences’ supposedly min…
A great piece of reading about adding more value with more content. The examples are highly illustrative, turning a dry rock into live rock.
Storify Long Form Content To Win
Great post explaining why SHORT or LONG form content works and the middle drags. Amazing charts and graphs supporting why long form works ins a heuristic TIME ON SITE time (like this one). If your readers are ENGAGED they are more valuable than if they are "one and done" and long form content creates more engagement.
The post speculates on why, but my theory is its easier to tell a better story. It takes me 500 words just to get my scene set (lol). I'm kidding, but I do like to "storify" my content.
In this context "storify" means to find a larger story I can riff INTO the post or share a personal but relevant story that provides the same kind of "backbone" content.
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20 Scoopiteers who've taught me more than I can repay in one lifetime about #contentmarketing and #contentcuration are #MustFollows :
@Robin Good
@maxOz(Michele)
@Ally Greer
@Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
@Cendrine Marrouat - https://www.cendrinemedia.com
Congratulations to Scoop.it on reaching 1M users. I wrote this post about my favorite 20 Scoopers a few months ago. It seems to be having a REDUX moment today as Scoop.it reaches a major milestone. There are several people such as @Therese Torris@Beth Kanter and others I would add now (such is the danger of making a list like this). But you can't go wrong following any of these great, kind, smart, creative and generous content curators on Scoop.it. Marty
Honestly, I'm speechless.
Marty Smith gives us a list of persons who know HOW....We can take a look at thema and see how they curate Content. Thank you Marty!
Possible Inspiring readings for Summer Vacation...
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Visual Marketing Over/Under or How I Use Scoop.it
Friends like +Phil Buckley and +Mark Traphagen are curious about how and why I use Scoop.it. This G+ post shares a detailed analysis of how Scoop.it helps reduce #contentmarketing risks, provides fast feedback to influence social media marketing and creates a safe envrionment to test assumptions, create validated learning and learn fast.
Thought provoking discussion: Why Scoop.it?
What models work, how to spot trends, how to employ analytics....
(No spoilers, #must read)
We're always finding different ways to use Scoop.it, mostly coming from the intelligent community of curators that has manifested itself over the last few years.
Scoop.it Specialist @Martin (Marty) Smith wrote an explanation of how he's using Scoop.it to gauge interest in potential original content. When his posts on Scoop.it do well, he is able to see what his audience likes, and create content along the same vein.
He also explains some of the SEO benefits seen by other Scoopiteers like @Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com.
Read Marty's post to find new creative ways to measure the potential success of content using Scoop.it and share your thoughts in the comments!
Scoop.it influences social media marketing and more...
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I’m seeing more Scoopit links in my Twitter stream and I’m not crazy about it. Sure it’s quick and easy to share with Scoopit. But it not quick and easy to consume. For me it's all about the econ...
Marty Note (here is comment I wrote on Dr. V's blog)
Appreciate Bryan’s and Joseph’s comment, but I rarely use Scoop.it as a pass through. More than 90% of the time I’m adding “rich snippets” to content I Scoop.
Rich snippets are “blog” posts that fall between Twitter and the 500 to 1,000 words I would write in Scenttrail Marketing. I often create original content ON Scoop.it because whatever I’m writing falls in the crack between Twitter’s micro blog and what I think of as needing to be on my marketing blog.
I was taught NOT to pass through links on Scoop.it early on by the great curator Robin Good. Robin has well over 1M views on Scoop.it now and his advice along with the patient advice of other great Scoop.it curators has my profile slouching toward 150,000 views.
Bryan is correct that some curators new to Scoop.it haven’t learned the Robin Good lesson yet. I agree it is frustrating to go to a link and not receive anything of value back, to simply need to click on another link. Curators who pass through links won’t scale, so the Darwinian impact will be they will learn to add value or die out.
For my part I always identify my Scoop.it links, probably about half the content I Tweet and about a quarter of my G+ shares. I also routinely share my favorite “Scoopiteers”, great content curators who taught me valuable lessons such as don’t simply pass through links but add “micro blogging” value via rich snippets.
When you follow or consistently share content from a great curator on Scooop.it you begin to understand HOW they shape the subjects they curate. I know, for example, Robin Good is amazing on new tools. Scoop.it anticipated this learning and built in a feature where I can suggest something to Robin.
This is when Scoop.it is at its most crowdsourcing best because I now have an army of curators who know I like to comment on and share content about design or BI or startups and they (other Scoopiteers) keep an eye out for me. There are several reasons Scoop.it is a “get more with less effort” tool and this crowdsourcing my curation is high on the list.
So, sorry you are sad to see Scoop.it links and understand your frustration. You’ve correctly identified the problem too – some curators don’t know how to use the tool yet. I know it is a lot to ask to wait for the Darwinian learning that will take place over generations, but Scoop.it and the web have “generations” that have the half life of a gnat so trust that the richness of the Scoop.it community will win in the end and “the end” won’t take long.
To my fellow Scoop.it curators we owe Bryan and Joseph thanks for reminding us of what Robin Good taught me – add value or your Scoop.it won’t scale. That lessons is applicable to much more than how we use Scoop.it.
Marty
Added to G+ too
https://plus.google.com/102639884404823294558/posts/TUsNtsAsjWp
Well said Marty.
It's all up to the curator: whether he/she is passionate about creating a master collection on a certain topic ?
Or, use scoop.it as another social mark to organize links.
@Ally Greer had a great relative post
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Great conversations with Guillaume Decugis, Mark Schaefer, Phil Buckley, Mark Traphagen & others last week convince me there's a Curatti in our future.
Curatti is an example of the HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Mashable multi-author, multi-thread held together by content curation model. I've noted to own the conversaton is to own the traffic. This model is best way to "own the converation" today and that is why there is a Curatti in your future.
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This post shares a story, a story of a piece of content written for @ janlgordon curatti.com. How did Startup Trends 2014 II go from being a laggard at social shares to outshining its brother post (Startup Trends 2014 I)?
Ongoing curation and GPlus provide the answers and proving why we are all content curators now. The piece also shares some "down the SEO rabbit hole" content curation and creation perspective.
Promise to write more "down the SEO rabbit hole" content soon.
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What is content curation and how can it help SEO? This post shares how content curation creates more reach faster and protects your Internet marketing.
Content Curation = Most Important IM Tactic
Content Curation can help Search Engine Optimization (SEO) when created with care, a sense of the new rules of SEO and commitment. This post, a response to another post, explains what content curation is and isn't, why greate rcontent rearch and testing is possible with content curation and how to add the most important Internet marketing tactic to your 2014 strategy - content curation.
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5 Secret & Disruptive Content Curation Tools
* Scoop.it.
* Haiku Deck.
* Paper.li.
* Pinterest.
* GooglePlus.
http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/5-secret-content-curation-tools-and-how-to-use-them/
Martin Marty Smith on Scoopit
@Martin (Marty) Smith
What's Google Plus?
This “new Google” era can be summarized as PEOPLE not BOTS!
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Jan Gordon: "Here's what caught my attention:
Axel: As long as people search for a product not knowing their name or a technology, not knowing its source or a solution not knowing who is a potential supplier SEO is an important part of the marketing mix...
However, this is slowly and steadily changing.
Today 60 – 80% of the so called educated purchase decision is based on recommendations by trusted individuals or groups that have no or no significant interest in the sale but helpful and experienced people using or knowing the product or service in need.
And the number of recommendation based purchases is steadily growing. I'm sure it will hit the 80 – 90% range in the next 5 to 10 years.
Now – what does that mean to SEO?
Why should a business invest in search engine optimization if most of the purchase decisions are based on recommendations?
Wouldn't it be smarter to invest into the "recommendation chain" instead in SEO?
Wouldn't it be more effective and successful to make sure people recommend a product than hoping to come up higher in the list of search results?"
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read the full article: http://bit.ly/AxRrEr
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This post was written by Jayme Thomason for Content Marketing Institute
I think we're all probably suffering from content marketing overwhelm?
I thought this article had some good ideas to cut the complexity.
Here are a few things that caught my attention:
Traffic sources This tells us from which social media spaces, email campaigns, or websites most of our traffic is coming from.
****Increase your engagement in the ones that are sending the most traffic.
Keywords What words are people using when they find your content in search engines?
****Make sure you are using them in your content on a frequent basis.
Most popular content This will tell you which pages on your website or posts on your blog are getting the most traffic.
****Whatever they are, create more content on those subjects or figure out how to repurpose that content for other uses.
Excerpt:
"If Leonardo Da Vinci was a content marketer today, I think he might say something like,
“Content marketing is only as valuable as the people who consume it deem it to be.” Behind the scenes, our processes can be as complex or as simple as we choose to make them."
Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"
Read more:
http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2011/10/cutting-complexity-of-content-marketing/
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This is from Idio (idioplatform.com @idioplatform) and something you will want to listen to more than once.
**Content curation as we all know, has many levels, it's an art, it's a work in progress, lots to absorb here but absolutely worth your time!
Robin Good says "Probably one of the best researched, best produced and most informative video clips about content curation I have seen so far."
If you are wondering whether curation could be useful for you or for your organization this video will help you understand better what this new discipline is all about.
****Highly recommended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D_ntajiZC6Y#!
I selected this article from Curatti written by Niraj Ranjan because it provides insights into how to create quality and relevant content.
You don't need to be a writing expert in order to create great articles for your blog.
Content Writing Success Steps
Many bloggers waste time by producing content that does not reach their audience. I agree that it is not too late to change your approach.
Ranjan explains how to produce a quality articles that your audience will love.
Here's what caught my attention:
Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond
Image: Courtesy of 123rf.
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Read full article here: http://ow.ly/nnK430czmyN
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