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76% of professionals who used content curation saw an impact on reported business goals in 2013. This free report takes the guesswork out of evaluating curation as a potential business tool.
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1. Skimming the Headline and Sharing Immediately In the rush to stay active across various social media networks, marketers can sometimes share things a little too quickly. A good headline doesn't mean a good article. Sometimes, it doesn't even mean a relevant article. That's why it's important to take the time to read the entire article before sharing it with an audience. 2. Checking Only the Most Popular Stories and Sources for Content If your content curation is supposed to attract people to the brand for originality and thought leadership, depending on the most-visited sources and most-read articles is merely going to backfire. Your social media accounts won't stand out, and prospects and customers won't see the value in following them. 3. Not Personalizing for Your Audience Personalizing the content you curate for audiences can be a big competitive advantage. According to the CMI/MarketingProfs research, just 19% of enterprises are customizing content based on audience preferences. 4. Promoting the Same Content Across Every Channel One tactic that's employed by time-starved marketers is to share one link across a few different channels, all at once. Ultimately, doing so undermines the purpose of content curation. If someone sees that a business is sharing the same thing on Twitter and Facebook, there's no added value to following the business on both channels. 5. Spending Too Much Time Curating Content Marketers can't afford to spend all day curating content, but that's almost inevitable when companies are expected to be on at least three (if not more) social media networks, maintain an active blog, interact with fans and followers, and send strategic email campaigns. However, content curation platforms can automate the curation and distribution of content across social media networks and email newsletters. ____________________________________________________ ► FREE: AgileContent™ delivers more quality content to your market! Get your FREE 14 Day Trial NOW!: http://goo.gl/rzeg79. No credit card required! ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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Make content curation faster and easier by combining Feedly and IFTTT to become the go-to expert in your niche and provide more value to your clients.
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#1: Use Feedly to Find Articles Feedly is an awesome tool for finding timely articles on topics you want to share. On Feedly, you can find content and organize it by categories. #2: Use IFTTT (If This Then That) to Collect Feedly Articles IFTTT (If This Then That) is one of the most useful tools I’ve come across on the web. It shaves hours off of research time by automating simple tasks. In order to automate tasks, you create what’s called a recipe. For example, now that you’re set up on Feedly, you can create a recipe that sends new articles to a Google spreadsheet—without you doing a thing! #3: Choose and Curate Content Use the spreadsheet to choose which articles are most relevant to your audience. Once you whittle down the articles to ones that are share-worthy, I suggest writing a status update you can schedule on Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn. (I usually write the status update in the Title cell to keep track of it.) ___________________________________ ► FREE: AgileContent™ delivers more quality content to your market! Get your FREE 14 Day Trial NOW!: http://goo.gl/rzeg79. No credit card required! ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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What do you make of other industries — especially digital media — using words like curator and curation? When you talk about sorting through content, that is editorial. “Curated” sounds better because it relates that sort of personal investment and taste. A curator is someone who is giving their own voice to it, but when we talk about specifically content or blogs, it is really about editing things — not working with them. Is the widespread use of the term curator a good thing for the art world, or has it watered down the value of the title? I am not a purist. I don’t think the art world cannot gain by being tainted by the outside world. If the art world is smart enough, they can take that and use it to their advantage — they can’t be too precious about the word though, but do make sure to wrestle it away from misappropriation. The product of good curation is not just a nice exhibition but how the public creates new knowledge by interacting with the exhibition. ___________________________________ ► FREE: AgileContent™ delivers more quality content to your market! Get your FREE 14 Day Trial NOW!: http://goo.gl/rzeg79. No credit card required! ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox: http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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…and you don’t even have to pay them. We’re talking about content...
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Scoop.it Feedly PostPlanner (designed for FB) Swayy Reddit In terms of finances, it’s much cheaper to subsidize original content with curated content. You can save time and money by including both curated and original content in your marketing strategy. Curated content also adds value by providing a new perspective on a popular topic and diversifying your sources, plus it allows for more frequent updates, which can heighten engagement with fans and followers. ___________________________________ ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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1. Be intentional about your themes & topics Stay reasonably focused on a small handful of themes, but make sure the body of work reflects the human element as well. 2. Pull from a consistent set of sources (to save you time) You’ll likely encounter good content from all over the place, but identify a core set of sources you can count on for both consistently good content as well as a variety of sources of similarly-themed content. 3. Use an automated queuing and distribution system 4. Always give credit back to the publisher 5. Post across channels to increase reach and awareness growth 6. 3-4 curated posts a day is fine Think of social media as akin to driving by a house at 35 miles an hour and trying to throw a newspaper into the mailbox. Sometimes it’ll get in, most of the time it won’t. You’ll need to play the numbers game a bit so that a small percentage of our curated content reaches and impacts your intended audience. 7. Actively curate 2-3 times a week max 8. Make instant curation one-click easy from your browser 9. Use team tools to increase contributions Buffer, HootSuite, GaggleAMP and other tools make it easy for teammates to suggest their own curation recommendations. Great way to get others involved and cut down the time required from you to curate everything yourself. 10. Spread out posts from the same consistently-good sources There are a handful of blogs and sources I read on a regular basis that consistently have great stuff. And when I curate content only 1-2 times a week, it would be easy to queue up content from one source all in a row. Instead, try to space it out a bit. Spacing adds to the perceived comprehensiveness and reach/value of your overall curated body of work. 11. Prioritize content from partners and prospects
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Is the end of the content marketing era in sight?
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The volume of free content is exploding at a ridiculous rate. Depending on what study you read, the amount of available web-based content (the supply) is doubling every 9 to 24 months. Unimaginable, really. However, our ability to consume that content (the demand) is finite. There are only so many hours in a day and even if we consume content while we eat, work and drive, there is a theoretical and inviolable limit to consumption, which we are now approaching. This intersection of finite content consumption and rising content availability will create a tremor I call The Content Shock. In a situation where content supply is exponentially exploding while content demand is flat, we would predict that individuals, companies, and brands would have to “pay” consumers more and more just to get them to see the same amount of content. ___________________________________ ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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Content - Most marketers (57%) say they should share 10 or more pieces of content per day to properly engage with their customers, according to a recent report by Trapit.
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Content Curation - 74% of marketers surveyed say curation is an important part of their content strategy.
- 54% agree automation is important for effective content curation.
- 53% believe content curation is becoming less effective because of content saturation.
Content Marketing Trends
- 82% of survey respondents say content is more likely to be consumed if it is visual.
- 49% say mobile content consumption habits will displace traditional discovery routes.
Time Spent on Content Marketing
- The marketers surveyed spend 28% of their time on average on content marketing.
- 50% would spend 40% or more of their time on content marketing if limitations did not exist.
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In the run up to this holiday season, my thoughts gravitated to the increasingly important role of curation in virtually all forms of audience engagement. Why? Because, spread as we are between so many cacophonous pleas, we all face an abundance of choice that far exceeds our capacity to discern what is—and what isn’t—worthy of our attention. In this always-on age of information overload, our synapses yearn for some relief. For many, this relief comes from the discriminating curators who act as intelligent filters across a veritable Sargasso Sea of information, a fire hose of flotsam and jetsam. We count on these curators to help turn the patternless din into a more sensible, more tractable patchwork. ___________________________________ ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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1. Read a variety of sources 2. Credit the original source 3. Don't use 'nofollow' links 4. Keep quotes short 5. Write with a point of view 6. Add context 7. Stick to thumbnail images 8. Let readers close an iFrame or share bar 9. Write a new headline 10. Claim Google authorship only when appropriate __________________________________ ► NEW: iNeoMarketing makes content marketing easy with the new Q8 Content. Q8 fills your content pipeline daily with relevant articles that your audience wants to read. Learn more and sign up for the beta program: http://www.Q8content.com. ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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1. Draw from a variety of sources 2. Prominently link to the original source 3. Avoid “nofollow” links 4. Quote sparingly 5. Insert your own point of view 6. Fill in the gaps 7. Use thumbnail images 8. Give readers the option to close an iFrame or share bar 9. Add a new title 10. Claim Google authorship, as appropriate __________________________________ ► NEW: iNeoMarketing makes content marketing easy with the new Q8 Content. Q8 fills your content pipeline daily with relevant articles that your audience wants to read. Learn more and sign up for the beta program: http://www.Q8content.com. ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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We see it as a spectrum of activities that evolve from one point to the next: -- > Simple aggregation and collection of content (with or without a distinct point of view) -- > Active curation and promotion of a point of view using that collection as a source -- > Aggregation and curation of user-generated content and social conversation around reported events or news in order to build an engaged community -- > Active real-time coverage of events and “newsroom” coverage of events around trending topics We have found that the enterprises that are successfully using content curation as a marketing strategy are, in most cases, deploying solutions that focus on one or more of these four business benefits: -- > “Taming the firehose of content” -- > Faster, more agile content marketing -- > Adding points of view and distinct experiences -- > Empowering and engaging target audiences __________________________________ ► NEW: iNeoMarketing makes content marketing easy with the new Q8 Content. Q8 fills your content pipeline daily with relevant articles that your audience wants to read. Learn more and sign up for the beta program: http://www.Q8content.com. ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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Here are four reasons your content marketing strategy cannot rely on content curation.
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1. We Have Hundreds of Sources Today We turn to more sources than ever before. Twitter, Facebook, even LinkedIn are now steady streams of content from hundreds or even thousands of individual sources. Becoming one of those sources only earns you a small slice of attention. And a small slice of attention doesn’t give you the market advantage you need today. 2. It Makes You A Filter, Not An Authority The value of a content curator is their ability to filter through the volumes of content and select the best, the most original, the most valuable, pieces. 3. You Build The Authority Of Others What happens when you continue to share content from certain companies or individuals? You build their authority! 4. Your Perspective Gets Lost Yes, your point of view comes through in what you choose to share. By allowing yourself (or your company) to become a mouthpiece for the views of others, you provide insight into your beliefs. But it simply aligns you with the masses that ascribe to the view of someone else, it doesn’t provide any insight into the nuances of your own perspective. __________________________________ ► NEW: iNeoMarketing makes content marketing easy with the new Q8 Content. Q8 fills your content pipeline daily with relevant articles that your audience wants to read. Learn more and sign up for the beta program: http://www.Q8content.com. ► Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected).
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Curated content lets you show off your expertise without creating new content. Here are 5 ways to drives comments, shares, and likes with your curated posts.
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1. Curate from a variety of sources. 2. Think multi-platform. Readers consume content in different ways, so don’t limit yourself to your own blog and social media channels. Think about ways you could repurpose your curated content into a webinar, ebook, white paper, or other materials. Brainstorm topics for guest blog posts you could contribute to other sites. Consider starting a podcast or web series to discuss the most interesting content you’ve curated and invite guest experts to weigh in. 3. Get reader input. 4. Say something unexpected. Annotation – or incorporating your own opinion instead of simply summarizing someone else’s piece – is a key part of content curation. Without your unique perspective, there’s no need for readers to visit your blog or website. After all, they can always read the original piece elsewhere online. 5. Include a strong call to action. Data shows that tweets using the phrase “please retweet” get four times as many retweets as other types of tweets. Calls to action are also a key component in blog posts, where you can encourage readers to share, comment, or take another action. Without this call to action (or CTA for short), readers may simply click over to a new window. Many blog posts conclude by asking readers for their opinions. Do they agree or disagree with the point of view you’ve just shared? Why or why not? These simple questions can spark conversations with your readers. ___________________________________ -Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected). -If you like this scoop from The Marketing Technology Alert (brought to you by iNeoMarketing), PLEASE share by using the links below.
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The most valuable commodity in the world is information. People thrive on learning new things about their specific interests and the general world around them.
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Perhaps the simplest method to curate the content you’ve gathered is to write a summary. Tell them in your own words what’s going down, and add your own little tidbits of information here and there as well. You’re mixing tons of great stuff to make something new, fun and totally relevant. Quoting a sentence or a short excerpt also falls under summarization, if you provide your own refection of the material before or after it. You could also tell a story by putting together multiple pieces of aggregated content to make a bigger point or show a process. You are curating content through a cohesive narrative that links separate (but valuable) ideas that together make something truly great. This type of repurposing is the highest valued target but it’s also the most difficult. One bad character or scene and you’ll lose your audience just like in a movie or book. ___________________________________ -Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected). -If you like this scoop from The Marketing Technology Alert (brought to you by iNeoMarketing), PLEASE share by using the links below.
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Bruce Clay did an SEO test on three varieties of curated content: 1. Curated links with auto-generated summaries. 2. Curated links with 200+ word annotations written by the human curator, referred to from here on as editorialized curation. 3. An excerpt of the original traditional post and curated links with editorialized curation." "Our conclusion is that when content curation comes in the form of original content, a website can achieve the benefits of fresh content without threat of negative search engine rankings. The same ranking potential can be gained from curated content with editorialized curation in significantly less time when compared to a traditional blog post." In order for curated content to enhance your site's SEO, you should follow these best practices: 1. Text should be unique on the Web. 2. Sources linked to should be of high quality. 3. Add value to the collection, for instance through story-telling, new perspective or commentary ___________________________________ -Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected). -If you like this scoop from The Marketing Technology Alert (brought to you by iNeoMarketing), PLEASE share by using the links below.
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A modern publishing strategy should include four content approaches - original, curated, licensed, and automated.
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If you want similar results, you can add a free tool to your website, but before you do, there are a few things you need to know: - Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Whatever you end up creating, make sure it is easy to use. Creating a complicated product that is feature rich won’t get you as far as creating a simple product.
- Build for others, not yourself – before you start building any product, you should survey your visitors and figure out what they want. If you build something that solves their problems, it’s more likely to be successful.
- Wireframe before you design and develop – once you know what your visitors want you to build, make sure you wireframe it before you start the design and development process. Once you have wireframes, go back to your visitors and get feedback to make sure you are on the right track.
- Design before you code – I’ve found that it’s easier and cheaper from a development standpoint if you have your designs completed before the development process starts. This way your engineers won’t overdevelop.
- One domain is better than two – in most cases, you are better off launching your product on your existing domain… especially if your existing domain has traffic. My co-founder and I have tried creating tools on separate sites, and they typically haven’t done as well. If you launch your tool on a separate domain name, be prepared to spend triple the amount of time marketing it.
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Viral content can lead to astounding results when the right ideas are shared with the right communities, and coming up with those ideas doesn't have to be a daunting task.
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I go to the places online that allow for both content curation and the ability to organize that content by what has already been popular. The places I usually use are as follows: -- > Reddit: Try doing a simple search for about 3 to 5 keywords related to your topical area. Many of their top stories are a great place to start for viral content ideas. -- > Google: Try searching for (Viral + Keyword) and look for other instances of viral campaigns that have been successful. Add as many of these as you can find to your list. -- > Trendhunter: Trendhunter does a good job of picking up on trending concepts and ideas that can be searched by keywords. Try searching for your keywords and then list the interesting URLs in your brainstorming dump list. -- > BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed does a good job with conceptualizing viral ideas. They also have an effective search tool to find these posts. Put these in your list, too. -- > Latest research: Try searching Google Scholar or Pubmed Search. You can segment your search by date, so try to use content from the past year for fresher stories. -- > Latest news: Google News, organized by date, can yield a good overview of what newspapers and online news sites are covering most around your topic area. -- > Datasets: Listing all possible datasets out there would take a long time, but I usually check out this Quora post to see if there is anything that jumps out to me as being applicable to the topic area I'm looking at. Also, https://explore.data.gov/ is a great place to do a few keyword searches to see if anything pops up as well. Reddit also has an active dataset subreddit that is worth looking at. You can also try a search at ZanRan.com, which can sometimes give some good results as well. Still stuck? Here are a few other places you can go if you are still having trouble filling out your research dump: -- > http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker/ -- > http://wikipedia.cognition.com -- > http://www.instagrok.com -- > Content Idea Generator V2 (Put your topic area in cell B3) -- > Google Autocomplete -- > Quora Web Search ___________________________________ -Receive a FREE daily summary of The Marketing Technology Alert directly to your inbox. To subscribe, please go to http://ineomarketing.com/About_The_MAR_Sub.html (your privacy is protected). -If you like this scoop from The Marketing Technology Alert (brought to you by iNeoMarketing), PLEASE share by using the links below.
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Social Media - Industry media sites are the most common source of content shared by B2B marketers on Twitter, accounting for 62% of all content shares, according to a recent analysis by Leadtail.
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It's a quick view report, albeit a bit biased, that covers the topline points you need to know about curation.