Good overview of the required steps to build a properly thought-out content curation strategy for a company.
From the article:
Step 1: Survey the Competitive Landscape
In content marketing and content curation, your competitors are not the companies who sell similar products or services. Rather, your competitors are organizations who publish content on the same topic as you.
1. Determine if you can curate content better than they can by being more comprehensive, more relevant, or more consistent...
2. See if there is a different perspective or opposing point of view that you bring to the table...
3. Try to broaden or narrow your topic. If your initial topic was offshore wind farms, you can try narrowing your topic to Atlantic Ocean Wind Farms or broaden it to Wind Power.
Step 2: Survey the Content Landscape
Content curation, the process of finding, organizing and sharing relevant information on a specific topic, relies on third party content. In order to become a successful curator on your topic, you need to determine if there is enough content to curate.
Step 3: Survey your audience interest
Even if you have a great topic that passes the competitor survey and the content survey, you must ensure that it is a topic that will draw an audience, and not just any audience, but the target audience for your business.
Putting it all together: Finding the Sweet Spot
At this point your challenge is to find a topic that passes these three tests.
It’s easy though to get stuck on a topic that passes two of the tests but not all three...
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Robin Good,
Giuseppe Mauriello