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Best Content Marketers is a great quesiton we answer in a different way focusing on best day-to-day content marketers from Scoopit, Gplus & Medium.
Top Haiku Decks Haiku Deck is an easy to use cool tool perfectly timed for the visual marketing revolution we find ourselves within. We've created more than 30 Decks, but 11 stand out.
They stand out because they've been viewed more than 101,000 times, have almost 1,000 social shares and are the kind of easy to create content curation helping to define the lean content movement so dear to our friends at Scoop.it (another great lean content / visual marketing tool).
See our top 11 Haiku Decks http://www.curagami.com/top-haiku-decks/?v=7516fd43adaa
See All of Our Haiku Decks https://www.haikudeck.com/presentations/Martin.Smith
SEO #1 organic listings are great, but not all keywords are equal - of Scenttrail Marketing's top posts the most promise comes from a Google #3 because ...
A lot of B2B companies in boring industries are intimidated by content marketing or just skip it all together. So what you’re not writing about the newest tech gadget that appeals to the mass market? Your content might not matter to most of them, but it does matter to some—your customers and your potential customers.
Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
Asking the right questions in the right way is key to online marketing success. How SMBs can compete with Amazon isn't as important as what is their why and how are they learning from Amazon's web marketing power.
Surf These Waves To FIND Your Blue Oceans:
* Appification & Gamification * Wiki-ization. * Social Shopping Nowists. * FofF Proxy Marketing
& Find other surfable marketing trends on our Discover Blue Oceans Haiku Deck: http://shar.es/1gQgRb
Why is Content Marketing key for 2015 Conventional, single-thread, one-way, disruptive mass communication – like the television commercials that brands have long subsidized – is on the way out. T…
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We shocked a SEO Meetup suggesting 90% curation to 10% content creation. This deck explains why you MUST curate content. Content curation is a CSF (Crtical Success Factor) for online marketing.
7 Reasons You Must Curate Content * Can't Create Sustainable Online Community Without Curating. * Reach. * Costs. * Digitally Listening (is different). * Authority. * Tribes. * Sustainable Online Community (so important its worth two listings).
Content curation is how you TEST and so protect your site's content creation. Content curation lowers your content creation costs and insures your current SEO ranks. Bet you agree, after flipping through this Hailku Deck (slides) content curation is a CSF (Critical Success Factor) for digital marketing.
Promise to follow with a deck on our favorite tools for content curation with @Scoop.itat the top of the list.
WOW, over 500 views in six hours thanks to Haiku Deck making Content Curation: 7 Reasons You Must a Featured Deck: https://www.haikudeck.com/gallery/featured
Go directly to the deck http://shar.es/1X0Rrc
Bad links can kill your website's hard-won authority, reputation & traffic. Use Google's disavow tool to protect your site's traffic from SEO bandits.
Haiku Deck By The Numbers: +2,716 Views In 6 Days! Over 64,000 Views, 4,000+ Views Average Top 10
Crowdfunding's real explosion will come at the enterprise level when combined with advanced loyalty and gamification.
Klout, Context & Links This post links to my G+ summary in prelude to my http://www.curatti.com blog post tonight. Here are some preliminary thoughts on the page of notes I took during Dixon Jones talk.
Links & The Real Value of Content Dixon works at Majestic SEO (http://www.majesticseo.com/ ). Majestic is asking the right question - what is the value of a link. They've even created tools that help intelligently answer that question.
"Inbound links" as a measurement is clouded by "bot spam". In a great example of the power of the "flow" tool Dixon shared. Even more powerful was an example of Majestic SEO vs. two competitors. On a purely inbound link review Majestic doesn't win.
But are all of those links valuable? Value is contextual and any spammy ways of inflating inbound link numbers need to be discovered and factored out.
Once links are run through Majestic SEO's "trust flow" tool evaluating where links came from and the respective trustworthiness of sites sending links in Majestic wins the comparison.We finally have a tool to separate white and black hats.
Think of that for a second. If you were to simply use aggregate inbound links you would buy ads with Majestic's competition or, and this is worse, you might think the competition's inflated (probalby by spam) value is something you should buy.
Once the Majestic SEO tool separates wheat from chafe a more accurate and "influential" picture emerges. SEOs and Internet marketers know how to parse page spread, social following and inbound links to pierce the veil of most who spam, but, for an outsider, "most links" may translate into "most trusted".
There is the web's biggest rub. Since the web is an interconnected system discovering if real people who have real value are passionate about a site tool, or brand with metrics such as high inbound links or big pagespread (pages in Google) is the only way to make an informed decision UNTIL Majestic wrestled context and content to the ground.
Curagmai & Majestic The reason our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami and Majestic fit together like Lego blocks is relationships between a site and its 1% Contributors, 9% Supporters and 90% readers. Curagami helps FIND the Contributors, Supporters and Readers and Majestic helps define each of member of those "tribes" by their CONTEXTUAL influence. I may not have high Klout and be irrelevant for a conversation about women's fashion, but be perfect to help discuss cycling (since I rode a bicycle across America in the summer of 2010). .
If the first job is to FIND Contributors, Supporters and Readers and the second is to ask them to JOIN with Contributors and Supporters high on the Ambassadors list then the 3rd job is to contextually empower advocates in each group. We know the future is about community and real people not bots are the building blocks of online community.
What Dixon shared today and Majestic SEO has been working hard on is helping marketers know what kind of ASK will work best for Jill, John and Bob. Jill might know women's fashion, pets and be a car mechanic in her spare time. John may know email marketing, gourmet cooking and wines. Bob may know finance and cycling.
Curagami helps find 'em & Majestic helps define 'em in order to create an ASK that works. Powerful and very cool tool since the future is about building community and not every Contributor, Supporter and Reader who visits your site is the same. As we begin to create "rich personas" thanks to tools such as Majestic and Curagami our content relevance will go up, and up and UP.
If you are thinking more content relevance = more LOVE and MONEY we agree :). M
We created Curagami to answer a single vexing question. What content should you create and why? Our Curagami Reports answer that question for you.
We lucky few Internet marketers make sand castles on the beach and he tide is always coming in. I started this G+ summary of "tiny advantage" thinking how similar Internet marketing is to Outward Bound.
But Dual Survival is a more apt analogy. No one summit our new marketing Everest alone anymore. We need TEAMS of great climbers, Sherpas and rope...lots of ROPE :).
I remember the deer in the headlights look I got from my last boss, founder of one of the larger web dev companies in the southeast, when I told him the most valuable "product" we created wasn't an individual website or app as much as it was a team capable of creating that app, SEO or email marketing
The PROCESS is what remains after the tide sweeps all yesterday's hard work out to see. I remember he looked at me funny :).
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With the amount of content that is shared on the Internet every minute, it’s no surprise that many people feel overwhelmed by the quantity of information out there. This is why content curation is becoming an essential digital literacy skill for teachers and students.
Via Guillaume Decugis, Jan-Olof Steen
Everything you need to know before you can start to sell digital products online even without a large following.
Why I'm Not A SEO Thanks to readers and those who share the first part of our 3 part Why I'm Not A SEO triptych is now #1 on Google for the term. THANKS!
Why I'm Not A SEO on Scenttrail Marketing http://www.scenttrail.com/why-im-not-an-seo/
Marty Note If you haven't checked your Klout score recently you should. Not just because your Klout score is a good indication on your "ding the universe" mission, but also because the Klout-ers are building some cool tools.
I just used their content scheduler for the first time. I liked the ease of putting 3 Tweets into queue and their content suggestions were excellent. I have to dig around mountains of ants and termites to find content half as good.
Also like their people suggestions. Going to be interesting to see if their people recommendations follow back or if they are so big following back little munchkins (like moi) is beyond them. The recommendations were relevant and cool, so, much like their content suggestions, easy and powerful people to follow suggestions.
The tool is improving at a rapid rate (Kudos) and their focus on EASY and painless is much appreciated. So go check your Klout score and ping me and I will send you Klout Perks or kudos or whatever the hell we trade in there (lol). M
We Added a page on top gamification tools such as SweetToothRewards.com (affordable gamification), Badgeville and Bunch Ball.
We now have pages for our favorite Analytics (just added Marin Software to that list), Content Curation and Gamification tools. We will develop a "gallery" of profile pages on http://www.Curagami.com to share how and why we like THESE tools over others.
What about you? What are your favorite online marketing tools? Email to Martin(at)Curagami.com or tweet using #favtools
Thanks, Marty
Trending Haiku Decks: Warren Buffett, Content Curation & Holiday Web Design
Haiku Deck Stats Haiku Deck (http://www.haikudeck.com ) continues to be one of our favorite visual marketing tools. We believe slide decks are a new marketing channel and our Haiku Decks views prove the point.
Total Views: 78,940 +107% in a month for a gain of 5,641 views across 37 Haiku Decks
Trends Warren Buffett Tips for Startups still #1 with 8,521 views http://shar.es/11m9Bx (gained 105% in a month or 428 views & is a Featured Haiku Deck).
7 Reasons You Must Curate Content Fastest TRENDING Deck http://shar.es/1XRPV7 (2,571 views in first week & now a Featured Haiku Deck)
Holiday Web Design Next fastest trending deck http://shar.es/1XRLb1 (1,087 Views or 116% gain in a month)
Gamify Content Marketing Broke 5,000 views & continues to grow faster than Buffett http://shar.es/1XRMgv (5,091 views #4 and up 106% vs Buffett's 105% & A Featured Haiku Deck)
Top Ecommerce Trends 2015 (new today) http://shar.es/1XRN6k Has 188 views in three hours
As our content works its way into Haiku Deck's community we see faster lifts for new content. 7 Reasons You Must Curate Content was our fastest deck to clear the 2,000 views hurdle beating Warren Buffett's Tips For Startups. Our Ecommerce Trends Deck, published this morning, may break 500 views its first day.
The team at Haiku Deck are great content curators and they support their "power users" with social shares and mentions. They do such a great job creating online community we created a deck about them too (http://shar.es/1XRNN8 ).
Gamify Content Marketing Blows Up Yesterday I mentioned Gamify along with two other trending Haiku Decks. Gamify gained 1,010 views (+40% gain) in a day. A move that big usually means someone BIG shared. We will look around and figure out who to thank, and hope you will check out and share Gamify Content Marketing too.
THANKS.
Successful content marketing engages over time. Engagement needs online community and a role shift from content creators to community curators and GAME creators.
Book by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz about using data to build a better startup faster, part of the Lean Startup series with Eric Ries and Ash Maurya from O'Reilly
Marty Note Reading Lean Analytics now and HIGHLY recommend it.
Dove Men+Care’s digital campaign for Father’s Day riffs off the idea that dads are sick of their Ward Cleaver image and want credit for changing diapers, making dinner and consoling heartbroken teens. But this creative isn’t all touchy-feely—it’s based on some hard data.
Marty Note I'm tired of the MAN as IDIOT trend. 2014 seems to be a redemption year. Men and dads are leading the charge. For a long time the cardboard "stupid man" populated commercials, movies and TV for far too long.
I get it. The pendulum swings hither and yon, to and fro. Perhaps one of the web's conversational benefits is brands see customers as people instead of "consumers" or "users".
We are neither simply consumers or users.We are people caught in a divine comedy. MEN aren't cardboard stereotypes meant to supply a cheap punchline or a cliche or two. We men are hard working, confused and learning as we go much like our beautiful sisters.
If the web can eliminate nasty yet ubiquitous cardboard stereotypes every man on the planet will be in the web's debt. What great "men are for real" campaigns have you seen this year?
Marty Note - Digital Listening Is Different Cendrine and I are having a great conversation on G+ about the nature of listening online. Cendrine's great post shares TIps and Tools so you can become a tuned online listener.
Great post. Here is what I shared on G+:
Are You Listening...Digitally? Digital #listening is different. Conversations provide nonverbal clues missing online, but online provides other kinds of clues. Online clues are easy to walk by without even knowing you just missed a clue.
Examples of missed online clues abound and include:
* Small Follow Back % (sends "we don't listen" signal). * Pushing only YOUR content (need to act less proprietarily to become or act as an #authority ). * Not curating or rewarding #ugc (User Generated Content). * Not responding to @yourtwitter mentions with RTs and thanks. * Not responding to direct @yourtwitter messages. * Not responding to Twitter DMs in a timely way (can be made worse by not following enough people to be able to DM). * Not being present on a major social net (like +Google+ ). * Not asking questions & then curating response. etc...
Could go on and on, but you get the idea. LISTENING online is different and few do it well.
FIND G+ Conversation https://plus.google.com/102639884404823294558/posts/FgYhn3zoQQL
The social media trends in the US for 2014: twitter, snaptchat, instagram, Vine...
Marty Note Cool video but MUTE it before you play it (horrible music) and don't be doing three things at once since great stats fly by fast.
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