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Content Marketing: Don't Over Plan - via @Curagami

Content Marketing: Don't Over Plan - via @Curagami | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it

Over Planning Can KILL Your Content Marketing
We see a lot of experts, gurus and people who should know better sharing yesterday's advice. We've read thousands of words about the importance of goal setting, planning and objectives for content marketing.

People talk about creating content marketing calendars and planning everything to within an inch of your life. Good luck with that. Might have worked 3 years ago, but today's social / mobile / connected world means you need to become a NOWIST.

This Curagami post embeds the influential Joy Ito TED talk about becoming a Nowist by pulling from the network to meet demand. Your content needs to do the same.

AND You need to digitally listen. We riff a few paragraphs about what it means to digitally listen such as FOLLOWING those who follow you, Retweeting and curating content from your customers and brand advocates.

Next time you read 1,000 words on planning your "content calendar" STOP and read this Curagami post so you don't over plan your content marketing.

Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight, October 15, 2014 1:29 PM

Great post and insight by @Martin (Marty) Smith sure to help you with your content marketing.

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Is Your Content So Good Its Binge-able? via @HaikuDeck

Is Your Content So Good Its Binge-able? via  @HaikuDeck | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
Netflix data shows "binge watching" is up. How do we create content marketing to encourage a binge?
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

How Can You Make Your Content So Good People BINGE It:

* Create Cliff Hangers Daisy Chained To Related Content.

* Keep it SHORT & SIMPLE.

* Use juxtapositions (like x, not y).

* Request, Award and Curate User Generated Content (UGC).
* Highlight BINGERS (comments and reviews).

That last bullet is one of the most effective. Much like Pavlov you get the behavior you reward, so reward BINGERS by Re-Tweeting them and curating their comments and notes into your marketing.

Even if your content isn't BINGE-ABLE yet, fake it to you make it. Benefits are too great to not work on making your content BINGE-ABLE.

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