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You can write for your idea-spreaders, and you can write for your buyers.
One gets you seen and the other gets you business. I say do both. Here’s a post about content marketing with the mi...
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"SEO “experts” are working hard to understand the tricks and techniques of optimizing search results. But you don’t need lay awake at night worrying about it. The fact is that Google is doing everything they can to find and index good content. And all you need to do is give it to them." Could good content take over keyword advertising? Via Ally Greer, Alessandro Rea
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
SEO Muscle Memory * SEO "Tricks" weren't known by a large population. * That was the way Google structured the game.
What Navneet Panda, Google's brilliant engineer, did in modifying Google's algorithm changed everything. Google was in danger of being flooded by social signals and User Generated Content. Not so much now.
BTW, I turned down the tit for tat SEO job. Life is way too short for such nonsense. Teams I've managed have profitably made more than $30M online with Average Order Values (AOVs) of around $60 so LOTS of transactions. I share that stat because if you were to ask me the most important idea in creating so much value here is my answer: Delete the scoop?
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This piece by Chris inspired me to write about how all web copy is on a Hero's Journey on Google Plus:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102639884404823294558/posts/2jXTLKhxqTx
My First Reaction Notes
Great Chris Brogan article explaining how to write content that makes your customers the hero. I also love the "never waste content without an ask of some kind". We are in the Call to Action business; to forget to ask is to waste your content marketing.
Types of asks:
* Ask to join a list.
* Ask to amplify your ideas with their take.
* Ask to buy something.
* Ask to read something else, something related.
* Ask for comments.
* Create a poll or a survey and ask specific questions.
* Ask to be LIKED or shared.
* Ask for support.
* Ask for trust (can be very powerful).
* Ask for help (admit you don't know it all).
That last bullet, ask for help, may be controversial. Don't you want to appear to have all the answers if you are selling your consulting services to other business? No one can know it all. People are smart. They want to work with people like them.
Admitting to being human only helps and strengthens your case. I don't like wimpy copy, but admitting you are unsure of something isn't wimpy (if done right). Collaboration is about knowing your strengths AND weaknesses and collaborating to contribute one and buttress the other.
Great Chris Brogan article on how to write content that makes potential buyers actual partners and collaborators.