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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

Waxing UnLyrical

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Share the right content on the right social media network. Offer consumable content …. And long-form content.

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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

ProBlogger

This rather remarkable change in policy by Getty Images shows that it’s ready to work with content creators and adapt to the times we live in. “You may only use embedded Getty Images Content for editorial purposes (meaning relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest).”

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Content Creation? Curation? Focus on Publishing Instead

Firebelly

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! But the one thing that we’ve both agreed on is the importance of publishing of our content, regardless of where it came from. Less filling!”

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The Best Content Marketer? An Orange Cone

Firebelly

What Does Soccer Have to do With Content Marketing? If you want to succeed at content marketing, sometimes you only have to be an orange cone. It’s a quiet little blog or Twitter account in your own quiet little corner of the world, but it’s getting results. You only have to put in a little bit of effort.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. While that’s the first thing that people think of — at least me, as a professional blogger — content is anything that can be read, watched, seen, or heard. I like this kind of content best, because it tells the entire story. Basically anything you can read.

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So What’s The Big Deal About Google + Your World? Will It Kill Facebook And Twitter?

SocMed Sean

So when Google+ launched, I jumped in again but was, again, seriously unimpressed with the “me too” nature of trying to copy Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. So when Google announced a new product called “Google + Your World” and everyone started announcing the death of Facebook and Twitter, I was naturally skeptical.

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Twitter Engagement and the Empty Promise

Akamai Marketing

And sometimes, particularly of late, the conversation (engagement) happens on Twitter or Facebook, so its not going to correspond exactly to web traffic. What if the headline is “8 ways to make 1 million dollars using Twitter&# bet that would get shared. Content shared but not consumed is similarly empty. Am I off base?