Great stories make great content. The more memorable the stories are about your company or brand, the more likely they are readily shared by an audience you are looking to connect and engage with.
Make your site content look good
Some years ago, a camera company paired with a world-class tennis player to come up with one of the more memorable ad slogans, “Image is everything.”
This can be said when it comes to creating content for your business or brand site. It may not be everything, but the way it looks is certainly an important thing.
YouTube’s coming attraction: Content creation app
YouTube is telling its fans what’s coming next.
The video content platform announced a new initiative called Creator Preview, a rundown of what the company is working on for its followers. According to YouTube’s Creators blog, the company is responding to its followers’ top request in a survey, to let them know what YouTube is working on ahead of time. The followers, in turn, would tell YouTube if it is on the right track.
Among YouTube’s upcoming plans is the development of a separate content creation app for smartphones. The timing could not be more fortuitous; a new report says smartphones now account for more than 87 percent of total handset shipments, a new high.
Also coming from YouTube is a crowdfunding feature that allows fans to directly contribute to their favorite YouTube creators, and a feature to create captions and subtitles for video content in multiple languages.
The company says its Creator Preview will come out regularly.
Here’s what YouTube’s engineers are saying.
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Read MorePros, cons of skipping content posts
Creating content for your business’ website can be time consuming. Studies show that among the challenges facing content marketing pros is consistently coming up to unique, engaging content for the target audience.
So it’s not going to hurt business if day or two goes by between posts. Right? You don’t mind losing a potential customer today by not publishing content if you can get two tomorrow, right?
Infrequent posting is not the most successful of tactics when it comes to content marketing strategy, but it can work if the content is worth reading. Shareaholic’s Danny Wong says writers can overcome the infrequency issue by ensuring every piece of content they publish is consumed by the audience in its entirety.
In an article that appears in TheNextWeb.com, Wong goes on to say:
“The idea here is: you should write only when you have something original to say that’s worth your readers’ time, because only then will it have been worth your time to author and publish it.”
Most consumers may not even notice that a day or two goes by between website posts. But there are drawbacks to this, like making content publishing less of a priority down the road.
Grammar Chic, Inc. president and editor in chief Amanda Clark offers this tip in a recent article:
“My advice is this: Work ahead. Try to find a few hours during the week where all you do is find interesting info to post, write content, and prepare for the week ahead. This gets you in the right mindset and allows you to get second opinions, edit, and not stress as much about writing content at the beginning of every work day.”
Consistency is key when it comes to creating and publishing great content, and doing it frequently goes far in ensuring customer loyalty. Still, missing a day or two isn’t fatal to your content marketing efforts, as long as it doesn’t become a part of the process.
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The basics of writing content: the 5 Ws and H
In creating written content, it’s best to focus on the basics. Shares and “Likes” aside, the consumer has to have a reason to be interested enough in the written article, blog or how-to guide to digest it, share it and engage with the company that’s producing it.
Those creating content and writing blogs should keep in mind the 5 Ws and H. These are questions whose answers are considered basic in information-gathering. To apply this, or not, can be the difference between creating and distributing informative content and making a sales pitch that can be easily pushed aside and forgotten.
As a content creator, ask these questions:
Who is presenting the content? That’s the company producing and distributing the content about the product or service.
What is it about? Is it information about a new product? A solution to a problem that consumers routinely face? A point of view about a trend affecting the business?
Why is this being presented? You’re an expert, an authority. You have information the consumer wants and could share with others.
When will this impact the consumer? Right now? A few months from now? In the near future?
Where and How do I find out more? Send them to the website link for more information.
Creating content can be detailed, even complicated. But often the most effective approach is the basic approach.
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The state of infographics’ appeal
The popularity of inforgraphics as an effective tool for marketing and customer engagement continues to be high.
A single infographic has the potential to reach as many as 15 million online users, according to Top Marketing Schools. Business topics amounted for nearly 13 percent of all infographics produced, according to data provided by Visual.ly.
The visual appeal of the infographic as content makes it highly shareable by users through social media, and searchable by people looking specifically for images on a topic. When creating an infographic, make sure it has an embed code so others can add it to their sites.
More about the impact of infographics below, courtesy of Top Marketing Schools.
Source: State of Infographics
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Video content: Making your subject camera ready
Video is an important component of any company’s content marketing strategy. But not everyone is a natural in front of the camera.
A little coaching and preparation helps in getting a subject ready for their camera time to deliver your business’ brand message.
In this segment, Kuno Creative’s content marketing specialist Lisa Gulasy offers some advice on preparing your video content by making the subject comfortable before the camera. At just over two minutes (with outtakes), it’s worth a look.
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Blog content sharing busiest on weekends, study says
Content writers who produce blogs and other brand content may be missing out on their audience by posting while consumers are working.
Blog writers are most likely to post their content during weekdays, mostly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, according to a study conducted in April by TrackMaven.
But while only 13 percent of blog content is published on Saturdays and Sundays, the content amounted for nearly a third — 32.6 percent — of total weekly shares on social media.
According to TrackMaven, at least 2 million blog posts are published daily, representing a significant component of content marketing. Blog posts help point out engagement with a company’s target audience that would in turn share its brand content.
In other words, companies can get more out of their blog content by making it available when readers have more time to read and share — on the weekends.
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The challenge of creating great content
The growth of content marketing as a business strategy to gain and retain customers also comes with a slew of new challenges.
High-quality content is in great demand, for example, and companies are willing to invest in it. Yet only a small percentage of companies have dedicated departments responsible for the production of this quality content.
A majority of businesses say there’s not enough time to produce quality content, and many other struggle with coming up with the engaging content that customers want and businesses desire.
In this infographic, Wpromote Online Marketing addresses the challenges that come with creating and distributing great content, and offers some potential solutions.
Via: Wpromote
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Read MoreSamsung, others joining Google in smart glass market
Google will soon get company in the wearable computer eyewear market.
Samsung is preparing to roll out its “Gear Glass” around September, according to several reports. The Gear Glass will look almost identical to the Google Glass, but its design will have its display over the right eye only and include an earpiece.
The Gear Glass will run on the Tizen operating system, which Samsung is developing.
More competitors may be on the way. Sony and Epson are working on their own smart eyewear versions, while Apple, Microsoft, and LG Electronics filed for smart glass-related patent applications.
That means more opportunities to develop unique content for devices that are truly for people on the go.
News of Samsung’s entry in the wearable tech market comes as Google announced that anyone in the United States can now buy a beta version Glass device as long as the company has them in stock. Google recently said that it was expanding Glass sales to more users in advance of an expected retail launch later this year.
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