Here’s How to Create a Community Around Your Blog
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how much I love to blog and how much I appreciate my readers. Blogging for me started as a passion project (not a business) and has really remained a passion – even though I’ve turned it into a business. Honestly, this is why I…
8 Ways of Putting Social Listening To Work For You
By Michael Brito All the hours you spend focusing on brand positioning don’t matter if everyone else feels different about it. And all the media in the world can’t change brand perception if your product doesn’t deliver value or your customer service sucks. Brands are built by having good products. They are built when they…
Communities are the Future – Are you In?
By Bryan Kramer As humans, we’re used to joining communities in the physical world. We coach our kid’s sports teams. We go to conferences and have co-workers. We belong to book clubs and non-profit groups seeking to learn something new or make our world a better place. Even our own families are small communities. Most…
Is Your Content Living A Resume or Eulogy Life?
Watch Video Resume vs. Eulogy TV analyst and author David Brooks’ TED Talk on living Eulogy instead of Resume lives was so moving I wrote a post asking my friends on LinkedIn if they were living Eulogy lives. Today’s Curatti post asks a variation of David Brooks’ question, Is your CONTENT living a resume or…
Hero Marketing – The Only Marketing Left
Stumbling On Hero Marketing on Martin’s Ride My career is over I remember thinking. Hearing “cancer” and my name in the same sentence made me a little crazy. As context roled in like a tide new perspectives emerged. Career as a concept fell apart. Heck, CONTROL as a concept is trashed. Many of life’s cherished…
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.…
Commere + Content Revolution: Why CrowdFunde Is Hiring Content Curators
Great Content Curators Needed Working with Jan and Curatti’s amazing “Editors of Chaos” convinced us – CrowdFunde needs great content curators. CrowdFunde is our Durham, NC based startup being “accelerated” at Triangle Startup Factory. CrowdFunde’s mission is simple – help websites, brands and companies tap wisdom of crowds so commerce and content can help one…
Internet Marketing’s 3Cs: Content, Community, Conversion
Hardest Thing You Will Ever Do Imagine the hardest thing you’ve ever done. Riding a bicycle across America in the summer of 2010 was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Martin’s Ride To Cure Cancer raised almost $30,000 for cancer research, was an amazing adventure and one of if not THE hardest thing I’ve attempted.…
Build Communities that Convert – Here’s How – Part 1
Sometimes I forget just how long I’ve been managing online communities. Whether it was my guild in Everquest, the OSU Dodgeball Club on Myspace, the numerous Facebook pages I created in college, or the massive brand pages I currently admin. I’ve been around long enough to see just how much social communication has evolved. Through…
Simple Way To Welcome People Into Your Network: Open Doors
If you’re here at Curatti, you’re building digital community. All of us here are seeking connection with people we want to be in touch with, whether we’re business owners or marketers or industry peers, or simply exploring the professional possibilities of today’s increased connectivity. I know for me, as a solopreneur with a publishing world…
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