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Repurposing Your Content – 13 Ways to Reach More People

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Repurposing Your Content - 13 Ways to Reach More PeopleYou have an editorial calendar and you publish articles on your blog consistently on a regular schedule. Check.

Your blog has beautiful social sharing buttons that you can customize and as soon as you publish, you share your blog posts to all your social networks. Check.

You use a social media management tool like Buffer, Hootsuite, CoSchedule, Missinglettr or Social Bee to queue up and reshare your evergreen articles on social networks a few weeks and months later, to help increase the number of people who see the content. Check.

Maybe you even go so far as reviewing and refreshing older content to bring it up to date and then reshare it again. Double check.

Now what? [Read more…]

Where is your business headed in 2019?

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2019 Q1 Planning Workshop on January 3, 2019 with Denise Wakeman

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ~ Yogi Berra

You’ve probably heard or read Berra’s quote more than once. It sounds funny, and it’s absolutely true.

The last few months I’ve been working with a group who want to trek to Machu Picchu in 2019. They know where they want to go. So it’s simple to create a step by step plan to get them to their desired destination: selecting dates, working with the trekking company to develop an itinerary, booking flights, hotels and all the rest of the cool experiences they’ll have along the way. [Read more…]

How to Create a Social Media Schedule That Is Truly Effective

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How to Create a Social Media Schedule That Is Truly Effective

When social media was first constructed there was limited marketing use. Primarily a social tool, brands knew they wanted to break in and engage with the users but they weren’t always sure how. Platforms like Twitter, in particular, were difficult to crack, thanks to their lack of functionality in the early days.

Now social media platforms have become a staple of marketing strategy and everyone uses it…which has its upside and its downside. On one hand, the sheer power of social media platforms as engagement and lead generation tools can’t be overstated. On the other, competition for user attention is pretty intense. It isn’t always easy to be seen in the crowd. [Read more…]

How to Promote Your Blog Post with a Simple Video Trailer

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How to Promote Your Blog Post with a Simple Video Trailer with Lumen5

You just can’t argue with the statistics. We are firmly entrenched in the age of video marketing and you ignore it at your peril.

Social video generates 1200% more shares than text and images combined. (Wordstream)

If you want more eyeballs on your content a.k.a your business, then you need to promote your blog posts with video. There are a couple of ways you can do this: talking head style announcing your new blog post or a simple video trailer featuring images and quotes from your article. Both are relatively simple to create.

FYI… this is yet another way to repurpose your blog content.

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How To Repurpose Your Content Without Running into Duplicate Content Issues

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Want To Repurpose Your Content? Here’s How To Do It Without Running into Duplicate Content Issues

Let’s get one thing straight: There’s no such a thing as a duplicate content penalty which existence would confirm any Google representative. There are two possible issues associated with non-original content:

  • The removal of a search result based on a DMCA notice. Google is said to be receiving around 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests, so this issue is bigger than you may think. The good thing is that this option of filing a DMCA notice with Google is a way to fight content scrapers who steal your content, so it’s a useful option to have.
  • The loss of rankings due to the fact that there is a web page that has the same (or almost the same) content as yours, so Google decided to rank that page for the sake of variety. For the obvious reasons, Google wants to show people varied search results, so they have to choose one result out of many copies. It’s hardly a penalty, but it’s not a pleasant thing to deal with: Having to compete in search with yourself.

When you want to syndicate your content on a popular blog for the sake of authority building and referral traffic, that is the risk you are running into: You may one day find that syndicated content over ranks yours. [Read more…]