Viral Content Fun: How to Create Fake Twitter and Facebook Conversations
You have probably seen fake Facebook or Twitter conversations all over the web. From countries speaking to one another through World War II, to fictional characters interacting as though they existed in the real world, these are very popular images that spread like wildfire from one social media site to another. There are two ways […]
Video Marketing: Free Music Resources for Your Video
One of the more stressful tasks when you are putting together a video is finding the right content to enhance it. Music is a primary example of this, and you can drive yourself crazy trying to come up with the perfect sound to accompany your clip. The longer the video, the more music you need, […]
Visual Content Marketing: How to Find Cool Cinemagraphs
A cinemagraph is a moving picture. Often, it is mistaken for an animated gif, which isn’t the same thing. In a cinemagraph, everything in the photo is still except a single detail. For example, a photo of a dog that is stationary except the wagging of his tail. It adds something special to an image […]
Content Re-Packaging 101: The Benefits and Tactics
Content re-packaging is one of the most powerful (and productive!) content marketing tactics. The term might not sound that good; it may bring to mind rewriters and article spinners unleashing low quality articles onto the web – but nothing could be further from the reality. My definition: Content re-packaging is about expanding your initial research […]
The Birth and Evolution of Digital Content Marketing
Starting from this week there will be the series of content marketing blog posts coming from our contributors – this is an introductory one. (See below for link to Part 2) Content is the highest valued asset on the web – which makes it the back and bones of any marketing campaign. Before going online […]
How To Make Your YouTube Video Go Viral
YouTube videos have become such an ingrained part of our society. Everyone wants something that will go viral, whether they are just posting on the web for personal reasons, trying to bring attention to something important like a cause or event, or a business hoping to boost sales using the power of the internet. There […]
Get Inspired With Google Suggest: 3 Tricks for Content Marketers
Ah, Google… they have taken over everything on the web, haven’t they? Once upon a time, they were nothing but a simple Beta engine on a university server, with a unique algorithm and big dreams. Now they dominate the Internet to the point of it being next to impossible to get away from them. Come […]
How to Curate Content With Twitter Favorites
Why aren’t more people using Twitter favorites? No, I really mean it, why isn’t every tweet obsessed Twitter junkie nuts for this feature? It is arguably one of their most helpful, and yet most overlooked, tool on the site. You can use it to curate content on a massive scale, bookmark links for later, or […]
How Do We Define Content Curation? (Weekly Q&A)
The social web has long since been a primary focus of the savvy marketer. Over the years, the type of widely available and popular platform for social interaction has expanded to include some newcomers. For example, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn and Delicious have all reached a level of significance many of us did not expect in […]
Interesting Creative Commons Projects
We live in a world obsessed with profit. Buying, selling, acquiring, spending money in the guise of saving money, manufacturing cheaper products, switching to the cash cow of the digital realm…this is all a part of life. Even when you don’t wish to be part of it, you can’t help it. Our society is just […]