The Best Way to “Steal” and Showcase Other People’s Ideas

You’ve heard the motto: Original content, original content, original content.

By and large, in order to build a successful blog or website, you need to produce original ideas and content regularly.

You know how readers love content that’s unique and original. If you’re reading this blog, chances are you know that “original” doesn’t mean “technically not spun content.”

It means original ideas, new perspectives and new ways of doing things that people haven’t thought of before.

Does that mean you should never use non-ideas?

No.

There is one way you can add a lot of value to your blog or website, using primarily someone else’s ideas. Here’s how. Read more…

Reminder – Monetize Your Content

When it comes to publishing content, many of us just get stuck in publishing mode. We keep publishing content because it’s supposed to help us grow our businesses. And you bet it can do that.

However, even though content itself is very important, it can’t grow your business without the help of a monetization strategy.

Most of us know this, but we often forget. Or we get lazy. Or we just figure we can get back to it later.

So with that in mind… Read more…

Can You Use the Kindle Store as a Marketing Channel?

A good friend of mine released her first Kindle book a few weeks ago. The result?

She made 59 sales in the first week.

That might not seem like a lot on the surface, but this was week #1, with zero marketing. Unlike web traffic, these are people who’ve actually paid to see her content.

Without a hugely recognizable name, without a mass PR push, without paid traffic, she was able to get people she’s never met on the Kindle store to purchase her product.

Best of all? With the right marketing, she’ll be able to convert those people into newsletter subscribers, buyers, affiliates and business partners.

The Kindle Store is often looked at as a way to publish a book. But what if you looked at it from a different perspective?

What if you looked at it as a way to get new people into your marketing funnel? How can you leverage the power of the Kindle Store’s massive audience? How can you get more people who’re willing to pay for content to come to your site?

Let’s take a look. Read more…

Turning Written Content into Graphics

You’ve probably noticed that the web has become a whole lot more visual these days. Whether it’s videos, photos or graphics… images are everywhere. They’re on websites, Facebook, Twitter and just about everywhere else you go online.

While a picture by itself can be worth a thousand words, a content-based graphic can also have a big impact. Graphics can strengthen the power of your written message and they’re also readily shared by others – making your content go even further… Read more…

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Let’s Really Meet Derek Pankaew

This is something I’ve been looking forward to sharing with you. For about a year and half, Derek Pankaew has been providing great tips and advice about content marketing, but after the 76 posts he has kindly made for us, we don’t really know a lot about Derek, do we?

Hmmm…what has he been hiding?

Well the truth is, Derek leads a pretty exciting lifestyle and has been traveling the world for about a year and half so far, starting about 1 month after he started writing for us. Yes, that’s right…he’s been using his writing skills to achieve the freedom most of us only dream of.

Recently, I asked Derek a few questions that would give us the opportunity to learn more about him and even provide us with a few tips on how we can also achieve such freedom in life. Whether you’re traveling or just want to have more freedom and flexibility in your daily schedule at home, Derek is certainly someone we can look to for inspiration.

Read more…

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