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Tips for Creating Marketing Content
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityThere are a lot of different ways to get your product, service or website in front of potential customers online.
And marketing with content is one of the most effective ways to do it. Here are a couple tips to make your content marketing stand out from the rest and work in your favor!
1. Vary Your Media Types – In other words, don’t rely on just one specific way of delivering your content.
While articles are very useful and the most common form of content marketing, video, audio and holding teleseminars are all equally appealing options to readers. Although some of these take a little longer to create, they all have their advantages. You’ll ind that using multiple forms of content delivery makes it easier to reach a larger audience.
2. Social Networking – Social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Digg are perfect vehicles to create your business networking contacts.
You can link up with people who are interested in your service and even create partnerships with other people to increase your exposure.
In his book, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue”
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read comments (0)Say Your Piece
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityYou’ve spent all that time (or maybe not) writing an article about whatever it is that you write about for your business, for fun, or to put a price tag on to help to increase your profit.
So now’s your chance to make it work for you.
Besides do the same old, same old like submitting it to article directories, try breaking your article into bits, and posting parts of it on your blog.
Or, if you’ve written a “how to” article, you might take one of the “how to” points and create another article with it. Or…
Say your piece
Get out your microphone, hook it to your computer and start talking! You can even “read your article”, to make an audio.
You can then make it available as a download at your site as incentive to your visitors to leave their email information. In turn, you grow your list!
Audio is especially great because you can then “burn” the audio to a disc, to be carried about and played while your clients/visitors/interested parties are driving, having some quiet time, doing a hobby, etc.
And you and your expertise are staying in front of your audience!
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Update Your Blog
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityA blog is a commitment!
Bet you maybe didn’t see that one coming, did you?
What’s more, it’s probably not a good idea to start a blog until you are pretty sure you can commit to it on a regular basis.
And by regular, I don’t mean “once a month”. I’m talking at least once a week…but even that isn’t the ideal frequency.
Make that, every day or so.
Some bloggers even post two and three times a day!
Search engines “eat up” new content so the more new content you have on your blog, the better chance you have of moving your blog up in the search engine rankings.
So, what do you think? Blogging often sound about right to you?
This nifty little Kindle book by Manuel Ortiz Braschi, Blogging Mastermind – The Ultimate Guide To Profitable Blogging! (Brand New), includes some tips that might peak your interest and provide you with some helpful information as you blog.
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Comment on Blogs to Build Relationships
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityYou know as well as I do that writing articles, and commenting at forums and on blogs, are three ways online entrepreneurs can use to get traffic to their web site or blog.
But, did you know there’s a correct way to do the blog commenting?
For instance, how many times have you had to delete a blog comment that was caught by your spam catcher because the comment was so outlandish, was too much of a sell for the commenter’s wares, or was just so completely off-topic that you knew the person (or bot, perhaps?) was just commenting to get backlinks to his or her site!
So, if you’re going to comment on a blog, the first thing you need to do is to read the initial blog post!
And then make sure your response clearly shows that you did!
You can easily do this by talking about some of the information in the original blog post. If you don’t, all you’re going to do is look like someone who’s on a spam prowl.
This nifty little Kindle book by Manuel Ortiz Braschi, Blogging Mastermind – The Ultimate Guide To Profitable Blogging! (Brand New), includes some tips that might peak your interest and provide you with some helpful information as you blog.
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You resource box needs one…
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityAs an online business owner, how do you let the world know you can do what you say you can do?
Well, you might write articles and submit them to online article directories.
To which you add a Resource Box.
But here’s a twist! Write a Resource box that’s brief, yet loaded with information.
Along with your name, your website address, your pitch, and your call to action, be sure to include your contact information. Make sure your email address is a professional one.
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Now about your blog
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityYou can write like you’re having a conversation, as this will help you avoid coming off a bit stuffy or like you’re talking in code.
And, make sure to mind your grammar, punctuation, and spelling, and that your “end result” (your blog post), is in top-notch form!
Your visitor’s will be able to tell if you’ve got poor grammar, even if they don’t take care to watch their own!
Darren Rowse and Chris Garret have a fantastic book about blogging, and tips to help you with your efforts – ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
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Email Marketing Vs Spam
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityThere’s a fine line between email marketing and spam…
And if you want to learn how to be successful online, you’ll do all you can to steer clear of being viewed as someone who spams.
Which means, watch how you conduct your email marketing campaigns, as what you think of as over-zealousness may instead be considered spamming by those who receive your messages.
In turn, your over-eagerness to get the word out about your product or services has the potential to hurt your business.
Each day, Internet users are inundated with email they didn’t ask for that’s in reality veiled pieces of advertisements.
In fact, this send your email to anyone and everyone” thinking has reached epic proportions.
And with the mounds and mounds of spam messages infiltrating the email boxes of “the innocent”, Internet users find it necessary to be cautious and suspicious about any email they receive.
Especially that which arrives unsolicited and seems to be promoting a particular product or service.
Seth Godin, one of the popular marketers on the “Net”, has written, Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
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Can’t Think? Brain Numb? How to Get Some Inspiration!
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityYou may have noticed that it’s time to write an article for your newsletter, or a post for your blog.
But you’re not not feeling any ideas!
If that happens to you, look around some of the article directories, like EzineArticles, to see “what people are talking about”! Check out the most popular article topics that are posted.
You might also use one of the keyword search tools to pick up some topics for your blog and/or ezine.
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If you have a question, a dilemma, or if you want to share an idea about writing, or if there’s something else you’d like to talk about along this line, send an email to me at kmcgreevey @ konceptuality.com. Or, feel free to use your Twitterer!
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Got An Ebook In You?
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualitySo everybody’s writing an ebook, and you want to get in on the action, too! But you don’t know where to start and if you did, you wouldn’t know what to do when.
Here are a few tips to help you get your thinking cap to working…
Think about your title
You’ll want to make it catchy enough to attract the “fast and curious”–those who speed read titles. Your title should be such that it helps your readers to find answers to their questions.
Who are your writing for?
Choose your audience before you start to write your e-book. Decide which type of audience will benefit from your subject. And also think about demographics like the age, culture, social background and education of the audience you want to attract.
Get going on your document
Once you have a “foundation” for your e-book you can start writing. One of the best options to maintain your document is to write in MS Word.
By writing in Ms Word (Open Source) or some similar format, you can easily make changes to your document when you need to. You can also check for spelling errors as you go along.–although MS Word is not exactly the be all and end all of spell check!
Also, select a font size that can be easy to read for people of all age groups. And, avoid using too many fonts as this may annoy your readers.
Once you have all these tips at play together, your ebook will come to life!
This little book Make Money Online: Write & Sell Ebooks Guide by Scott Boyd has some tips that you might find useful, as well.
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The Eyes Have It!
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIt`s a well-known fact that large blocks of copy in email letters, sales copy and web content, can intimidate, and may often send people running for the hills–or at least looking for the Delete or back button!
The solution?
Break your paragraphs into two to four sentences. Use several subheadings throughout your email letter and web copy.
And use asterisks, dashes, and ellipses (…) to give your copy more rhythm.
Bullet points are also excellent eye-catchers and breaker-uppers!
Email Marketing” An Hour A Day by Jeanniey Mullen, David Daniels and David Gilmour is a step-by-step guide to introduce you to the basics of email marketing that you might offer some helpful insight to you.
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