20 + 2 content marketing tips you should be using
This list of content marketing tips is a must-read, including some that are often overlooked by many marketers. Find out what you could be missing out on.
Read MoreContent Curation
5 smart tricks to drive more website traffic with content curation
A lot of people turn to curation to help with their content creation workload. But that’s not the only thing content…
Read MoreHow to fit content curation into your content marketing strategy successfully
Looking for ways to improve the content you publish? You’re in good hands. Content curation is a great way to maximize the results of your content marketing efforts that allows you to create more quality content at scale, yet…
Read MoreThe best content marketing tools for the strategy phase (1/6)
Content marketing has a lot going for it. For starters, if you’ve got some content creation and promotion skills, it can be done nearly for free. It’s also a great way to build a trusting…
Read MoreHow to find awesome content your email subscribers will love
Are you sending out email updates to promote your new content? If you are, give yourself a pat on the back. Because most marketers aren’t. This was one of the biggest surprises we found after…
Read MoreWhy re-publishing content to other platforms is a great way to fully leverage (and not replace) your blog
Rand’s presentation on how to re-use and recycle content, update existing content, and earn better rankings and visibility.
Read MoreThe golden rule for creating successful content: why you need to start with WHY
Why you exist is not your product. Your WHY is the problem your product solves.
Read MoreQuantity vs quality: why a balance is key to content marketing success
This is one of the core questions content marketers struggle with. How you answer it will shape your content strategy, your budget, and more. No content marketer answers this question in the same way. Even on…
Read MoreEverything you need to know about curation in 2016: 8 content curation best practices
If you’re in the dark about content curation, you’ve come to the right place. Earlier this week, our CEO Guillaume guest hosted for Express Writers‘s weekly #ContentWritingChat on Twitter, where he discussed content curation tips, best practices,…
Read MoreThe complete guide to optimizing the content marketing lifecycle
Content marketing is a practice that has been on a steady upswing since 2015. It’s a hot subject amongst top influencers in the marketing space, and even Gartner can’t stress how important it is: There’s no denying…
Read MoreSocial media marketing: it’s complicated but rewarding
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest boast a combined total of 2.5 billion active users. Let that sink in: there are 2.5 billion regularly updated accounts on those five platforms alone, so it’s no wonder…
Read MoreWhat mix of content is part of your social media marketing plan in 2016?
Social media is a critical channel for businesses looking to distribute branded content to their market. It puts companies in front of marketing qualified prospects who may not yet have thought to conduct a basic Google…
Read MoreHow to scale content marketing through technology: 5 essential tips from Engagio’s Jon Miller
Jon Miller, one of the most influential leaders in MarTech (founder of Marketo and now Engagio) recently hosted an informative discussion during ContentTECH, Content Marketing Institute‘s one-day virtual marketing event dedicated to content marketing technology. With so…
Read MoreBest of content marketing articles, Q4 2015
We wanted to share with you the Best Of Content Marketing articles we wrote in the past 3 months. Let us know if you like them in the comments! On track to Content Marketing ROI? Take…
Read More20 websites that publish terrific content to curate
Google is a great tool. But it has its limitations. Like when you’re tired of doing keyword searches for content to share with your audience. You want to find the good stuff, but not the…
Read MoreA beginner’s guide to content curation
Never tried content curation? Not sure it could work for your business? Then this is the post for you. A beginner’s guide to content curation First things first: What is content curation? It can be…
Read MoreGetting started with Content Marketing – Hubspot & Scoop.it’s complete guide
To “do” content marketing, you need to “do” content. But when marketers set out to actually build a content creation team, there’s the dream, and there’s the reality. Since 90% of all the data in the…
Read MoreBest of content marketing articles, Q3 2015
Hi everyone, We wanted to share with you the Best Of Content Marketing articles we wrote in the past 3 months. And in extra, get the list of the best tools for the publishing phase…
Read MoreHow to use competitive research to improve your content marketing
Your content has a lot of competition. That’s a big challenge, but there’s a hidden opportunity there, too. With just a little bit of research you can find out how any piece of content performed….
Read More7 ways for small businesses to generate leads with social media
Small business owners aren’t usually on social media to share cat videos and indulge in celebrity gossip. They’re on social media for business. They do social media to gain exposure, but ultimately the goal is to get more business. Getting more business usually means getting more leads.
Unfortunately, getting leads from social media is not so easy. If you’re doing well at it, pat yourself on the back. Most marketers struggle with getting social media to work well for lead generation.
7 ways for small businesses to generate leads with social media
That’s what Ascend2 discovered when they tallied up the results of a lead generation survey of 300 marketers last month. Only 26% of the marketers they surveyed marked social media as among their more effective lead generation tactics.
Read MoreNo man is an island: content curation for content creators
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
What do you think of that quote? Is it depressing? Dismissive?
True?
True or not, that quote evokes a dilemma every content creator struggles with. We have a lot of content to create, and in one way or another, it’s all been created before.
Before you get on the defensive, let me explain what I mean by that.
Why we tend to create similar content
Our job is to create content that both serves our audience and meets business goals. To do that efficiently, we use proven formats (blog posts, white papers, tweets, etc). We answer common questions. We do this in ways that are familiar to our audience and easy for them to understand.
If we get too creative and too cutting-edge, we become hard to understand. As soon as our audience doesn’t understand us, they’re gone. The rest of the Internet – the easy-to-understand and endlessly diverting Internet – is only a click away.
Read More7 examples of exceptional curated emails [& how to create your own]
Want to try one of the best marketing time savers… just in time for the lazy days of August? We’ve got just the thing. If you’ve been curating content on social media but haven’t taken…
Read MoreDoes ethical content curation exist? A data-driven answer
Ever since we started to work on Scoop.it, we’ve had this question: is it fair to use other people’s content for your own good: in other words, how ethical is content curation? Is it even legal?
A quick look at history clearly shows that artists and scientists never created in a vacuum but have always leveraged pre-existing work to develop their own. And that’s for the greater good. Closer to us, there is a multitude of online media sites which embraced content curation as an alternative or a complement to the content they produce: the Huffington Post is a famous example but Upworthy and BuzzFeed are others and even the respected New York times started doing it.
Of course, such an answer won’t satisfy your legal department or your own need to have a more pragmatic answer. So as we’ve now been arounds for several years and, more importantly, have seen millions of users publish more than 100 million pieces of content, we feel we can not only give you a recap of the facts that make content curation ethical but also back that out with data.
Read More5 easy ways to curate content on your blog
Content curation is a bit of an art form, and takes some time to perfect. But once you’ve figured out a strategy that works, you’ll have a process in place for regularly finding, compiling and editorializing content your audience will love!
Where to source content for curation
In order to curate content, you first need to find it. The net is teeming with information ripe for curation, but the challenge is finding relevant content in a timely manner.
Read MoreContent curation and website traffic: study finds 464% growth in 4 months
This is a very interesting case study by the team at B2B Content Engine on content curation and website traffic: it analyzes the impact content curation has on a B2B web site’s traffic. B2B sites typically have niche audiences which are hard to find from untargeted methods and costly to generate with targeted advertising.
Content curation and website traffic are correlated.
What this study shows is that consistent content curation provided not only impressive results on traffic growth but also lead generation conversion at a 12% rate. In addition to many other great benefits such as brand visibility, awareness, etc…
It also gives an idea of the volume of content that was required to achieve that, which is very reasonable.
Read MoreHow to blog more in 30 minutes a day or less – eBook
The key to content marketing success is to publish good content, but also to publish more content: you need to blog more and to blog consistently if you want to get tangible results. The times where you could publish an occasional epic piece of content such as a quarterly white paper or a yearly survey report and be “good to go” are gone.
Blog more consistently if you want more traffic and leads.
That’s the ultimate goal, isn’t it? You know that you need to have a blog, and a blog that doesn’t suck like many do. But having a blog and publishing a good piece of content every month is not enough. Why? Because for your audience to find your content when they ask Google a question, you need your content to answer the new SEO rules:
Read More5 critical SEO tips to curate content like a king
When you curate content the right way, you should never get in trouble with Google or your readers. In fact, it should do just the opposite: improve your search rankings and delight your readers and followers.
One common misconception about content curation is that it’s simply reposting entire pages of other people’s content on your own site. But let me be clear: this is not curation.
So, what is content curation? While there is some variance among definitions, I like how marketing expert Heidi Cohen defines it: “Content curation assembles, selects, categorizes, comments on, and presents the most relevant, highest quality information to meet your audience’s needs on a specific subject.”
Read More10 content curation pros to convince you to start curating now
There are so many content curation pros that it can seem too good to be true, especially if you struggle to create your own content. The idea that you can to attract and engage an…
Read MorePublish quality content on your blog: quantity matters too!
Companies tend to struggle to create and publish good content on their blog. If you’re a marketer, you’re most likely not a professional writer. Hence it can be difficult to figure out what your audience is interested in, write good content around those topics, all while running your other marketing tasks. And when your segment has many big actors with content marketing teams dedicated to maintaining an efficient blog, it can be challenging to try and compete with them. So it’s important to understand what matters in terms of content quantity and quality.
Publish good content, yes indeed. Here’s how.
If “Content Marketing is all the Marketing that’s left” – according to Seth Godin (best selling author, entrepreneur, marketer and public speaker) -, you want to do things right.
If you want to do things right and publish good content, you should…
Read MoreHow to nurture leads with content curation
Want more leads? You’re not alone. According to IDG Enterprise’s 2015 B2B Content Marketing Spotlight Report, lead generation is the #1 priority for content marketers.
But while everybody says they want more leads, in the very next breathe they’ll add that they want better leads, too. That’s why you’ll see lead nurturing come in as priority #4 on this same graph. Lead nurturing is basically lead generation 2.0. First you get the leads, then you warm them up.