June 8, 2014
The Burning Question: How Can Our Audience Find Us?
The adage that perception is 9/10th of reality is becoming ever more true in the online world. With Facebook giving their reasons for the decline in organic reach and saying that the fraction of the potential news feed that they show us, is what is relevant to us, the question must be asked as to…
June 2, 2014
5 #stealthis Content Marketing Ideas From Amazon
Streaming Downton Abbey via Roku and Amazon Prime this weekend struck a nerve. As the web continues to destroy middlemen and gatekeepers concepts like “CBS” and “Time Warner Cable” are in play. Watching Amazon move from webpage arbitrage to web services platform to streaming video seller got me thinking about tips every content marketer should steal…
June 1, 2014
How Do You Get Readers To Engage And Why Everyone Should
There are plenty of posts that purport to give the secrets of getting reader engagement with your content, not a small number of which themselves have few shares and no comments. Similarly, we’ve all seen plenty of dynamite blog posts, perhaps with a large number of shares, but with little to no engagement Engagement: The…
May 25, 2014
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…
May 21, 2014
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…
May 12, 2014
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”…
May 8, 2014
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…
May 5, 2014
Escape From Google – Diversify Your Internet Marketing
Note: This post is a preview to my Digital Marketing For Business presentation this Wednesday May 8th at 10:00 in the Raleigh Convention Center. Escape From Google I’m not Snake Pilssken the character Kurt Russell played in John Carpenter’s famous end of the world movie Escape From New York. Carpenter’s 1981 movie had the world…
May 4, 2014
The Power of Emotions, B2B Marketing And Your Business
Storytelling provides the emotional aspect to B2B marketing that stands one company apart from another. My article for this week pulls a nugget or two from several, perhaps not obviously linked articles, hopefully paving a path from one to the other where it may not be so obvious reading each article individually. The New Buyer…
April 28, 2014
Ouch! 3 Ways To Avoid the Coming Community Shock
Content Shock Becomes Community Shock Content Shock: Why Content Marketing Is Not A Sustainable Strategy is a highly influential post by Mark Schaefer. Mark outlines what every content marketer knows. We can’t ALL create an infinite amount of content and win. Attention is one of the few things that we can’t easily create more of.…
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