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Jan Gordon

Why Content Marketers Have To Think Like Publishers

By Greg Satell In 2010 Pepsi pulled its Super Bowl ads and invested $20 million into its Refresh project, which employed crowdsourcing to support good causes.  It was an astounding social media success, with more than 87 million votes cast. Unfortunately, as this HBR case study points out, it was an abysmal business failure and…


Albert Qian

4 Ways to Maximize Your SlideShare Presentation

As we’ve discussed many times on Curatti, the rise of visual content plays an important part in any company’s content marketing strategy. Whether its opting for an informative infographic, snazzy cover photo, or meme to project a company value, what a company places visually on its social channels can be interest generating or drive people…


Martin (Marty) Smith

Can Subscriptions Smite The SEO Giant?

Can Subscriptions Smite SEO Giant

Invisible Giant BLOWS UP Last week’s Curatti post The Invisible Giant: Why the New SEO Is So Hard To See blew up on and off Curatti. With over 200 social shares (“flares) on Curatti and support from great friends such as Mark Traphagen, Phil Buckley, Jan Gordon, Andy Capaloff along with a group of great…


Martin (Marty) Smith

Invisible Giant: Why Its Hard To See the New SEO

SEO's Invisible Giant Curatti cover graphic by Ealk on BeHance

Click GIANT to see fastest “views” Haiku Deck we’ve ever created. (8.6.14 Blowing Up Haiku Deck note added to bottom.) The New SEO’s Invisible Giant “You can’t get there from here anymore,” is what I should have said. Instead I wrote a long email explaining how SEO, content marketing, PPC (Pay Per Click) and community…


Martin (Marty) Smith

Is Your Content Living A Resume or Eulogy Life?

David Brooks Eulogy Content hero on Curatti

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…


Martin (Marty) Smith

Red Bull, Media Companies & Curagami Scores

What's Your Curagami Score Curatti Cover

Red Bull Branding Lessons We Are All Media Companies Now is my most popular Curatti post by a long margin. I think that’s because it was easy to see the difference in the P&G Ad from the 1950s and Red Bull’s “follow our customers and brand them” approach: Flash forward to this video from Red…


Martin (Marty) Smith

Stop Solipsistic Marketing II – 10 Tips

Stop Solipsistic Marketing Curatti Cover

What’s Your Curagami Score? Our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami is developing a new cool metric – a Curagami Score. Knowing a website’s Curagami Score helps digital marketing teams know if their marketing is talking to themselves about themselves or winning hearts, minds and loyalty online.     We thought it would be fun to share 5…


Jan Gordon

Curating an Experience Your Audience Will Remember

This article, re-published with kind permission of Danny Brown, takes a different type of look at the importance of storytelling in engaging an audience, and is itself written in a manner that engages from first word to last.  Enjoy! Creating and Curating an Experience Your Audience Will Remember We like to be entertained. We enjoy…


Martin (Marty) Smith

5 #stealthis Content Marketing Ideas From Amazon

Steal These 5 Content Marketing Ideas from Amazon graphic on Curatti

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…


Martin (Marty) Smith

How Can Your Website “Make Love”: 5 Internet Marketing Tips

How Websites Make Love Beatles Graphic on Curatti

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”…


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