Marty (@ScentTrail) Shares 5 Internet Marketing Lessons From The Big C
One lesson every Internet marketer learns is to learn from everything. Here are 5 Internet marketing lessons I’ve learned from surviving cancer: Internet Marketing Lesson #1: Be Patient In A Hurry This lesson is contradictory sounding but accurate to the experience of Internet marketing. Patience in a hurry describes one of the core skills every…
Four Surefire Ways To Increase Your Content Curation Traffic
Many of us, including Curatti writers Marty Smith and Karen Dietz, ‘cut our teeth’ on the scoopIt platform. Used correctly, it offers any content marketer an invaluable means of driving traffic to their site, so boosting their SEO. This article, by Guillaume Decugis, co-founder and CEO of ScoopIt shows some of the advantages of using…
How to Find + Tell Awesome Customer Stories
Want to grow your business? Then share your customer stories. Yet one of the greatest difficulties entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and large corporations have is collecting their customer stories. Not only do many organizations resist talking with their customers (I might hear something I don’t like), it requires time and feels complicated to actually get done. But…
Brands Need To Get Content Right
Michael Brito has given us permission to re-publish some of his work. The first piece I’ve selected may be over 4 months old, but it is as relevant and fresh as anything you are likely to find on the web, imparting so much information, it is ‘one to bookmark’. The urgency of this piece can…
Red Bull Branding 2: Friends of Friends Marketing
Red Bull Branding Lessons: We Are All Media Companies Now discussed differences in marketing between P&G in the 1950’s and Red Bull in 2014. There are many differences. P&G’s brand marketing told parables and myths. Procter & Gamble used TV to align P&G’s brands with core values such as “good mother” and “take care of…
Content Curation: Your Blog Post Recipe
Curating a great blog post is like creating recipe for your favorite dish. If you leave something out, intentionally or accidentally, the result will be different. In some incidences you’ll discover an entirely new dish, and in others you’ll just throw it in the bin and start again. Now, I’m going to share the ingredients…
Is Crowdsourcing The Cure For Your Ever Shrinking Day?
How Busy Are You? You’re busy. You’re really, really busy! You don’t need me or anyone else to remind you of just how busy you are. You may just recognize aspects of your day/your life in this Infographic. Longer days, less sleep, less vacations. You know it isn’t good for you! This article from Inc.…
How Can Your Website “Make Love”: 5 Internet Marketing Tips
The Beatles Were Right When the Beatles said, “And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make” they were both right and prescient. The Beatles were speaking about web marketing long before there was a web. Creating websites that people LOVE is rarely discussed. I’ve heard, “Create great content”…
The Why, Where and How of Planning a Social Media Strategy
This article, re-published with kind permission of Danny Brown, gives a step-by-step, high level ‘why, where and how’ for getting your business immersed into Social Media, including some very useful resources. The picture he paints is not the one you will read elsewhere, that everything is very simple. The processes need thought, planning, time investment…
5 Ways to Please Your CMO Using This One Easy Trick
That title got your attention didn’t it? Such as the state of the Internet these days. Content marketing, having exploded in the way that it has over the past few months, has contributed to a robotic methodology of writing blog posts much like this one. Blog posts champion the importance of giving a numerical amount…
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