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5 Content Marketing Tips from HBO's Westworld

Content Marketing Tips Examples
Our Westworld content marketing video includes examples of 5 tips and 5 websites who illustrate the point including:

Show Don't Tell - REI.com
Tease Don't Bore - Vestique.com

Beauty Solves Half the Problem - Vogue.com
Believe and MOVE - Red Bull
Create Another Loop - Social Shopping 

Hope you have a chance to watch the video and share your Westworld or content marketing love. 

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FedEx Ecommerce Conference Atlanta 4.16: Agenda & Details via @Curagami

FedEx Ecommerce Conference Atlanta 4.16: Agenda & Details via @Curagami | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
I'm discussing Ask For Help: the New Collaborative, Curated and Community based Ecommerce at the FedEx Ecom Summit in Atlantic on 4.16.
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Deena Varshavskaya: WANELO's CEO The Face of Clean Slate Brands [Charlie Rose Interview Video]

Deena Varshavskaya: WANELO's CEO The Face of Clean Slate Brands [Charlie Rose Interview Video] | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

On “Charlie Rose,” Deena Varshavskaya, founder and chief executive officer at Wanelo. The online social media app connects millions of consumer with some of the biggest brands, as well as the tiniest of independent boutiques.

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Listening to WaNeLo's founder discuss her experience raising money and goals for her social shopping company made me realize I was listening to the sound of a clean slate brand. Wanelo is the first salvo in the "social shopping" wars sure to erupt.

Rose asks a good question, "Why won't Twitter and Facebook follow your lead?" They will and Deeena's best defense is a good offense. I signed up for Wanelo and its an intriguing play that couldn't exist without smart phones.

There's "mobile first" and then there is a company like Wanelo who is conceived and could only be possible with mobile. When Deena mentioned that more than 80% of their traffic is mobile my heart skipped a beat and I realized how clean slate this affiliate money play really is.

By mashing up retailers and accepting affiliate money Wanelo has to create a fun and exciting interface. They are about half way there. The way you create your store with swiping is cool and a #muststeal idea, but there is little more to recommend or hold interest currently.

Rose asked all the right questions about WHY and being first is a big recommendation, but not the only thing needed to survive. The UI is worth some money and their more than a million young followers are worth a lot too. Deena correctly locates the biggest challenge in today's market - getting people to love and interact with your content NOT mining or creating some unique Intellectual Property (IP) that can be protected and held over others.

Wanelo walks into social shopping, creates a "game console" using smart phones and will probably be adding gamification soon (if they are half as smart as they seem) and there is the first mover advantage. Important interview about the future of "social shopping".

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Pheed Me: Social Shopping Curation With Monetization

Pheed Me: Social Shopping Curation With Monetization | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Therese' summary : existing social media platforms have connected world’s celebrities with audiences tens of millions of people without giving them much reward for it. This is about to change with Pheed a social shopping curation platform that means business

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The New Ecommerce - 5 Crucial Trends

The New Ecommerce - 5 Crucial Trends | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

New Ecommerce Trends
New Ecommerce: Search For Blue Oceans is about the disruptive impact smartphones, ubiquitous connection and retailer innovation are creating in ecommerce.

  • Smartphones and ubiquitous connection to the web
  • Impact of videos and unboxing creating “gift box retailers”
  • Social Shopping and slouching toward real-time
  • Buying personas, web analytics & dynamic personalization
  • Google and the New SEO where content is KING and social content QUEEN
     
Discover the trends shaping a new online commerce on Curagami: 

 http://www.curagami.com/new-ecommerce-5-crucial-trends/?v=7516fd43adaa 

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Zillow-ification Of Content: How Startup Disruptors Roll Up Online Content

Zillow-ification Of Content: How Startup Disruptors Roll Up Online Content | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Added Zillow-ification of Content to Asking Key Ecommerce Questions Haiku Deck: http://shar.es/1gcmvT

The slide shares a common problem. Regional industries from banking to real estate have feedback loops that reinforce their regional-ness. They are big fish in small ponds.

Along comes startup entrepreneurs who understand the "socket layers" of information architecture in a platform world. They create a platform, roll up the regional content, tag, filter and package information that WAS free but held in a thousand places and SELL the package back to the proprietary and once powerful big fish in their small pond.

Google's only "boundary" is the web their only VOTE inbound links and the social and search clout earned. Google thinks and acts differently. Google fishes the world's oceans and will think about fishing on Mars should such a possibility present itself.

Information is free doesn't mean what you think. Information is free means information is boundless and so able to be formed and reformed in an infinite variety of ways. The power distribution of everything is something Google and their roll up students know and regional once powerful big fish learn the hard way.

How do I know so much about this? Some of my best friends are roll-up artists capable of hiding the pea or the red queen in ways so clever and adroit those paying for their information don't even seem to realize or know how badly they've just been zillow-ized :).

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Don't Bring A Knife To A Dragon Fight & 5 Other Easy To Fix Ecom Blunders

Don't Bring A Knife To A Dragon Fight & 5 Other Easy To Fix Ecom Blunders | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
Ecommerce is full of potential costly blunders. This Curagami post and Haiku Deck explains how to avoid 5 common and easy to fix ecommerce blunders.

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