Curation Revolution

Marty Note
There are about a million implications of this Marketing Land report  showing content push +35% while engagement collapses. One implication is we are using the right tool. @Scoop.it and content curation is the future. As @Guillaume Decugis and his team shares (over and over), content curation's greater reach, democracy, and engagement is better for you, your band and website. 

 As we shared on G+ (Inevitable Lightness of Being) and Curagami (Burn Down Your Website) the tactical past is giving way to a different marketing future. Hold on to the past and become irrelevant. The future is about curating, caring and collaborating more and that means Scoop.it's genius becomes even MORE important :). Marty 

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2. Short sentences.

3. Small paragraphs.

4. Be Specific.

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Trending AND Best Sellers
Good idea to have TRENDING and BEST SELLERS categories. B2B SaaS companies may not have "best seller". "May not" because we believe every online marketing team should have an ecommerce store, but few B2B marketers take us up on that belief.  

Trending  is what is happening NOW. Best Sellers are what has happened over a longer period (say a month, quarter or year). Trending is a great word since it implies the influence of the "mob". 

The best "trending" is where the guts of the trending engine is shared and easy to see. Digg's voting engine or Facebook's thumbs up / down make it easy to SEE the tribe and their votes.

We added Trending as a category today, but are manually calculating what should be in the category form Google Analytics. Better to automate it all and then share what you automated. If you count sales, shares and subscriptions (immediately after)  TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS and they will give you the kind of feedback your system needs.

If you aren't that sophisticated yet do something like what we are doing. Share your GA results so customers know how you are calculating "trending" (reminds us we need to add that). Not as good as trending based on easy to SEE feedback loops, but trust creating nonetheless.  

Burn Down Your House
Talking Heads know an important internet marketing truth – sometimes you need to put on a big suit, jump around and burn down your web marketing house.

Watch David Byrne carefully. Everything happening is practiced but not stale, choreographed but spontaneous and crazy & planned. If there is a better example for where our near real time, content, community and commerce online world is going we don't know it.

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