Content on content

This how to guide by Sylvia Jensen, highlights nine tips to ensure a great content strategy:

Start with the objective

All too often objectives are far-reaching and/or fuzzy 

Understand your audience

Don’t lose focus on who will be reading your content and where possible identify personas

Avoid product- and sales-driven content

Create content about what you know, not what you sell

Invest and market your content

Create a unique point-of-view because you are competing with every publisher, bloggers, trade journals, Twitter influencers, and even daily newspapers

Create a content calendar

The content you create should be planned, yet flexible enough to adapt to inspiration

Build a content team

Your colleagues are vital to the creation, distribution and socializing of your content, inspire them to contribute

Recycle your content

Wherever possible repurpose and recycle your content and share across all platforms.

Check this great presentation by Scot McKee on content recycling.[PDF] http://bit.ly/SabzgX

Find a chief content officer

While everyone in a company may be responsible for content, one person needs to be accountable for it

Be interesting 

Content marketing is a new strand of marketing DNA. If you lack the skills internally then hire a journalist or a specialty agency to work with you.

 

By Sylvia Jensen.  http://bit.ly/Snc32P

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Graphic and B2B Marketing Summit video presentation. http://bit.ly/SadqlR

By Scot McKee. http://bit.ly/SSatGQ

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