To create innovative and interesting content you need to put your creativity at work. By understanding the needs of your customers you can craft content in a way so that it captures their interest. Business 2 Community contributor Chintan Zalani has shared five habits of successful content creators. You can adopt them to strengthen your content creation efforts. Zalani says, “If you’re writing or creating content as a leisure activity, then you’re cool, and the habits in the article are not essential for you. However if you want the content to pay your bills (including new brands starting... [...]

People all around the world like to know what’s new and interesting. Sites that curate news can become a good business for small marketers. That was the principle that IM NewsWatch was founded on. We limit our news to one niche, online business, but there are many other niches, particularly related to popular culture, that also have a lot of followers. Build a following and you can build a business. There’s normally a lot of work building and operating a news curation site. We spend up to 60 hours a week operating IM NewsWatch, for example. I can’t count the number of times I... [...]

Your content needs to be easy to understand and persuasive. It should help your readers rather than confusing them. Content Marketing Institute contributor Gina Balarin has shared seven tips to create content that your audience would like. Balarin says, “The only way to get over that raised barrier – and regain the trust of buyers and prospects – is to give our audiences what they need, not what they think they want. It’s not easy. It requires psychographic, well-researched, insightful personas created by the whole business, not just the marketing team – ones that... [...]

Quality content makes a long lasting impact on your audience. It helps you to establish yourself in their mindsets for a longer period and think of your company when they are in need of a particular product or service. Copyblogger’s Stefanie Flaxman has highlighted two factors that define satisfying content and its marketing impact. Flaxman says, “Have you ever read a blog post, listened to a podcast episode, or watched a video and thought: Have you ever read a blog post, listened to a podcast episode, or watched a video and thought: “I kind of get what this person... [...]

Your content should have the qualities that are being looked for by the search engines. When the content syncs with the search engine algorithm you get desired results. The Search Engine Journal contributor Ashley Ward has shared six tips to create SEO-friendly content. Ward says, “Put aside your Excel sheets, keyword research, and optimization guides for just a minute. Let’s talk about the nuts and bolts of SEO-friendly content that has the potential to rank #1. 1. Add Variety to Your Content No two searchers are alike. Some people want chunks of dense text, while other people demand... [...]

I am frequently dismayed by the poor writing in the promotional emails I receive. There are a lot of grammar errors and misspellings. There are also sentences that don’t make sense. I have wondered if there would be a market for having sales pages, emails, etc. reviewed for good English prior to release. The errors I see reduce a reader’s confidence in the ability of a seller to deliver quality products, so cleaning up the English should pay for itself in improved sales. You may not have to hire someone to clean up your poor writing, though. There are tools that will improve your writing,... [...]

Graphics are very important for making your content presentable. Pictures that sync with the ideation of your content help you easily and closely connect with the audiences. The Search Engine Journal contributor Brad Smith has shared four ways to help you choose right images for your next blog post. Smith says, “Before starting to add images to your next post, first consider your target audience in detail to understand what they expect, want, and what can be directly applied in their day-to-day as efficiently as possible. Now, let’s go over some surefire ways to pick memorable images... [...]

Content marketing is doing wonders for most businesses. It can do so only when you have produced fresh and creative piece of content. Copyblogger’s Stefanie Flaxman has shared some useful tips to help you turn your contend ideas into a series of publication. Flaxman says, “If you produce one piece of content a week, the installments below will give you four weeks of content, but they could also publish four consecutive days in a row or every other day. See what works for you. Installment #1: Establish your authority Here’s where you select your content idea. Let’s pretend you run... [...]

Search engine prefer the content that makes sense, easy to digest and helpful to the Internet surfers. Creating a piece of content that gets high credit in search engines is a challenging job. The MOZ team has published the Whiteboard Friday video featuring Kameron Jenkins on ‘Content Comprehensiveness’. Jenkins in this video shares some useful ideas to make most from your content marketing efforts. The MOZ team says, “When Google says they prefer comprehensive, complete content, what does that really mean? In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins... [...]

Content marketing requires constant creation of quality content which is a challenging job. Continuously creating fresh content requires persistent efforts. We need to consider remaking our content – from blog posts to video and from video to emails for better conversions. MOZ columnist Laurel Taylor has shared an useful article on how marketers can use their old blog posts fro improved marketing. Taylor says, “On many sites, the sheer number of pages are the biggest reason to consider improving or scaling back old content. If past content managers chose quantity over quality, heaps... [...]