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Want Your Content to Stand Out? Look to “the Basics.”

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Creating content that someone actually wants to read is extremely difficult these days. Everyone is surrounded by “noise” that they don’t have time to parse through, our attention spans are shrinking by the day and far too often, the content we do consume isn’t even truly novel. Guest Post by Lukas Treu. Just not our basics.

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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Today’s lesson is user-generated content 101 and five reasons why the future belongs to the users. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Live event social media generally involves a social media person or standard event-goer using a mobile device to put content online. Here they are: 1. Gamification.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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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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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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What is distributed content and why should you know about it? Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). Distributed content is an effective way to have more control over your social messaging.

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Why You Should Be Investing In Visual Content for Social Channels

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Our brains are wired to find visual content especially compelling. Here are three reasons why you should build a visual content strategy today: 1. Here are three reasons why you should build a visual content strategy today: 1. Visual content boosts social engagement. Visual content builds trust & loyalty.

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

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Last week I talked about how what we consider “authoritative content” has changed rapidly, and continues to do so. If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? What does this mean for your content? So how do you now measure the validity of this content?

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Give Your Content Marketing a Human Face

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Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Effective content marketing gives your company a human face, and makes it more appealing, engaging, and trustworthy.

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