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How content curation can help you to engage your audiences



How to use Presentations as a Content Marketing Tool

How to Use Presentations as a Content Marketing Tool

eBooks, whitepapers, and blogs – all these terms come to mind whenever we think about content marketing. But have you ever pondered about using PowerPoint presentations as a tool to market your content? A presentation provides you an opportunity to showcase your information in a visually impressive way. Whatever your content marketing objective is – building a customer base, increasing customer referrals, informing the target audience about new products/services, or driving sales, a well-thought-out and aesthetically-designed presentation can serve as a valuable asset to get your message across.

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What is Video Curation & How To Curate Video Content

What is Video Curation & How To Curate Video Content

The human brain is such that an average individual is likely to retain 90% of the visual content that they see. Only 20% of what they read will be retained, while a mere 10% of what they hear stays in their memory. As a communication medium, video caters to the sight and audio senses of an individual at the same time. That way, video is the best possible medium for an individual or brand to get their message across.

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What’s The Secret to Creating More Authentic Content?

What’s The Secret to Creating More Authentic Content?

If you were to listen to marketing meetings from around the world, you’d discover that the majority of businesses and brands have similar issues. When it comes to content creation and marketing, lack of engagement is one of the biggest concerns. Brands spend lots of time, energy, and money creating content, yet it seems to fall on deaf ears.

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Curation Principales in Content Marketing for eCommerce Brands

Curation Principles in Content Marketing for eCommerce Brands

Meticulously selected and creatively presented, curated pieces can enrich the content strategy of every online retailer. Marketers can and even should use either their own previous works or parts of those published by others to enhance brand visibility and engage followers with valuable information.

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The Importance of Design in eLearning

The Importance of Graphic Design in eLearning

Classroom training is a thing of the past. eLearning has entirely replaced the chalk and duster, thereby bringing a significant revolution in the landscape of education in the last few years. Specifically, in this pandemic situation of Covid-19, when everyone is forced to stay locked down in their homes and avoid face-to-face interaction, eLearning has emerged as a boon to the education industry.

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Email Design: Your Handy Guide to Create Winning Emails

Email Design: Your Handy Guide to Create Winning Emails

Despite the emergence of a plethora of marketing channels, email still continues to enjoy maximum popularity and effectiveness among all businesses. Statista has revealed that 306.4 billion emails were sent and received every day in 2020. This number is set to rise to 361.6 billion in 2024. That’s a huge number.

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Content Curation: What Does It Mean for Your eCommerce Business

Content Curation: What Does It Mean for Your eCommerce Business

The more information is circulated around us, the more anxious we get. We want to cover it all but simply can’t do that. That’s why various digests, guides, abstracts, tops, and other compilations are so popular. All of them are formats of curated content that imply selecting, structuring, re-packaging, and delivering valuable information to users.

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6 Ways Visuals Can Boost Your Content Marketing Efforts

6 Ways Visuals Can Boost Your Content Marketing Efforts

Though content is the king in digital marketing, all-text-without-visuals is a thing of the past. Visuals spice up and empower the content to give your marketing efforts a tremendous boost. Owing to the increasing use of Pinterest, Instagram, and other social media channels, visual content marketing has gained quick momentum and has now become mainstream. To make your campaigns relevant to meet your audience’s ever-changing needs, invigorate them with the right mix of visuals and text.

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How To Use Hashtags For Content Curation On Twitter

How To Use Hashtags For Content Curation On Twitter

Curating content for your audience can add a lot of value to your Twitter marketing efforts. Besides allowing you to demonstrate versatility, curated content shows you have inside industry awareness that your audience is in search of. And as an added bonus, content curation means you don’t always have to feel pressured to produce unique content.

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The importance of Content and Design in E-Learning

The importance of Content and Design in eLearning

The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 has shaken the entire world severely, forcing the global shutdown of several activities. And educational activities are no exception. The centuries-old traditional classroom-based education industry witnessed a paradigm shift, and online learning became the new normal overnight. Many academic institutions and training centers that were earlier reluctant to change their traditional approach of imparting learning had no option other than transitioning entirely to online platforms. Though the novel coronavirus brought new challenges for educators, it has opened new avenues for eLearning and online teaching.

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Email Marketing Trends: How to up Your Game in 2021 and Beyond

Email Marketing Trends: How to up Your Game in 2021 and Beyond

The ever-changing field of email marketing has yet again brought some exciting trends for 2021 and the future.

How it started: Plain text emails

How is it going: More advanced emails with imagery, dynamic content blocks, and much more…

To learn more about how emails are set to change in the coming years, read on…

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10 Biggest Mistakes Brands Commonly Make on Twitter and How to Avoid Them

10 Biggest Mistakes Brands Commonly Make on Twitter and How to Avoid Them

It’s common knowledge that if brands want to get their marketing messages in front of the right audience at the right time, then they would do well to focus on social media platforms for authentic engagement. Twitter, in particular, offers brands numerous opportunities to grow a loyal and enthusiastic following.

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Why Web Accessibility is an Important Ingredient to your Content Curation Strategy

Why Web Accessibility is an Important Ingredient to your Content Curation Strategy

Content curation isn’t merely about plotting out various audiences or researching about your users’ interests. There’s a ton more to content curation. And web accessibility for all users is one of them. That means taking into consideration the 1 out of 6 visitors to your website with disability. Read on to find out why it is essential to do so.

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Make the most out of Scoop.it’s content distribution to engage your audience

Make the most out of Scoop.it's content distribution to engage your audience

Think about this: 50% of all content goes completely unused, and only 22% of pages that are currently in the top 10 results on search were created within one year.

Creating new content is a huge bet, and curated content helps, but only if you put in the effort to distribute it.

If you want to make sure you’re doing everything you can to get your curated content in front of your target audiences, both internal and external, you’re about to learn many techniques you can use to make it happen.

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Welcome email series: The trend that helps you engage subscribers better

Welcome email series: The trend that helps you engage subscribers better

Imagine this. You go on a date with someone you liked. But then, you feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. What will you do? You will most probably refuse to meet them again.

The same holds for your email subscribers. As soon as subscribers join your email list, they expect you to greet and welcome them. That’s where welcome emails come into the picture.

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8 Rules for Effective Marketing Presentations

8 Rules for Effective Marketing Presentations

Gone are the days when marketers used to knock door-to-door for providing a brief about their products. The advent of digital marketing has connected the entire world virtually and has reduced the face-to-face interaction of marketers to infrequent marketing conferences and networking events. However, it has also pushed the marketing professionals to master the presentation skills to sustain this super-competitive environment and take their businesses to the next level.

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