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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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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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When the FDA won the Internet (also, cicadas)

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Now, the FDA doesn’t usually get a ton of engagement with its social content. I’d say if it gets 10+ retweets and 0 haters on Twitter, it’s having a good day (an observation based solely on an informal scan of its Twitter profile). But until Kristy mentioned it, I literally had NO idea. TONS of legit media coverage.

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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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Where to Begin Defining Your Target Audiences Online for Content Creation

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The first step to creating engaging and effective content is to determine your target audience. This alone can give you an advantage; according to Altimeter, 70% of marketers have not yet developed a consistent content strategy. Many owners stop at the basic information. How will they engage with your products or content?

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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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Content Marketing: Without Community, It’s Only Half the Equation

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If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. You’re super-excited too – content, new client, money… what’s not to love? So you put it together.