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Why Seeding Your Content is Key to Making it Viral

The Effective Marketer

It pays off then for companies to mine the data they already have about their customers in order to determine the best people to seed your campaign. Understanding the social structure of potential networks is an important part when planning your social strategy.

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The Importance of Content Continuity

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But if you take the presentation, and add a few more slides to it in order to emphasize a key message, or if you take that message and link it to a video or an eBook that reinforces the story, then you are creating continuity. Why is this distinction important?

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A Content Rules Cheat Sheet

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While a longer book review is in order, I just wanted to share something I’ve created with you. Yes, I think I like it more than a few other books out there because of the straight-forwardness (is this a word?) of the language the authors use. The book is based on 11 content rules : Embrace being a publisher. Build momentum.

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Guidelines for a Content Marketing Audit

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One thing is clear, in order to achieve the higher stages of content marketing maturity, the whole organization must recognize its importance and support for content creation must come from the executive levels. Drive Organizational Change and Transformation. Educate and Train. Design Recombinant Content.

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What Marketing Org Charts Tell You About The Business

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Sometimes the reasons are related to inefficient and costly marketing structures that have grown so big that they become an impediment to successfully conducting business and start damaging the brand.

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What My Paper Route Taught Me about Content Marketing

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Putting content marketing processes on autopilot in order to shift attention to shiny new marketing toys. Trying to pass off lame, rehashed content as something new and relevant. Relying on automated feeds to push content rather than building genuine social media connections. 2. Reader Convenience Is Everything.

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Principles of Great Content Marketing

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It comes down to asking “what can I remove in order to make the main message stronger?&#. So think of your content and ask yourself what can you remove? What images, what copy? What content, if removed, will make the remaining content stronger and more appealing? No, is not easy. But it is worth trying.