An Introduction to Content Marketing for Businesses

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Content Marketing for Business

Transcript of An Introduction to Content Marketing for Businesses

Content Marketing for Business

The Role of Content

CONTENT

Websites & Blogs

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Search

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Social

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Creation or Curation?

Creation

Demonstrate authority by creating and sharing content of value.

Curation

Demonstrate authority by finding and sharing content of value.

From zero to over 80 million visitors in a monthhttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/15/upworthy-website-lots-to-like-read

Creation & Curation

Together they pack a powerful punch!

Content Ideas

Where Do they Come

From?

Read exhaustively about your market sector

Read outside your sector & make associations

Identify key sources & influencers

Take part in online discussions

Learn something new

Keep notes of ideas as they come up

Make a list of client questions

Some Useful Tools

Feedly

Flipboard/Zite

Hootsuite

Audible

YouTube

Evernote

Coming soon…Kurasie.com

The Plan

Content

Template

For non-WritersThere is always YouTube…

The Art of Curation

Identify Sources

Save to a Feed Reader

Share the Good Stuff!

Or Compile an Article

Matt Cutts* on Curation

http://youtu.be/o7sfUDr3w8I?t=3m

*Head of the web spam team

at Google

Good Curation Example

Mentioned by Matt Cutts

This complete presentation is an example of

creation and curation in itself!

Set Up Your 1st Blog

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