Sound into Print

It’s probably pretty obvious that we are big fans of the written word. With video exploding on the net, we
tend to hide behind our keyboards because it’s how we express ourselves best.

And don’t be fooled, despite the growth of multimedia, text is still definitely the most consumed media online.

While my business partner, Annette isn’t afraid to come out and show herself on camera, if you ask me to explain a content marketing concept out loud, I often clam up and stumbles over my words.

But no matter… Read more…

3 Easy Steps:
Better Results from Content Distribution

A lot of our clients at All Custom Content and readers here at Contentrix.com put a good deal of focus in distributing their content to other websites.

Whether it’s an article directory like ezinearticles.com, guest blog posting or submitting articles to a niche website, there is definite value in the added exposure.

The problem is, we’ve talked to a lot of people who say they’ve been sending out all this content, but their businesses aren’t growing.

The good news is, there are some easy fixes to this problem and it all starts with having the right approach to your content distribution… Read more…

How to Start, Manage and Run a Content-Based Membership Site

photo credit: Photo Extremist

One of the easiest ways to get truly consistent residual monthly income is to build a membership website.

Building a membership website might sound difficult at first. In reality, it’ll only be complicated the first time you’re learning the process. From then on, updating and creating new membership sites becomes much easier.

Have you ever had a site’s traffic or income go down? It’s happened to almost everyone who’s made money online for a few years. Google changes some algorithm, AdSense changes a policy, etc and your income just drops like a bucket.

Having a membership site will prevent this from happening. Even if your traffic does go down, you’ll have the residual income going for several months while you get back on your feet. It’s the only truly passive way of earning money online.

Here’s how to launch your first content-based membership website. Read more…

What Should I Do with My Articles?

When most of us write or have articles written for us, we publish them on our website or submit them to a directory and then call it quits.

Well, an article is something that can be used in many ways. Here are a few ideas for you

* Publish it on your website (yep, mentioned that)

* Submit to a directory like ezinearticles.com (yep, mentioned that)… Read more…

Content Marketing Lessons From Rock Bands

I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a ‘reality sitcom’ addict. One of my favorites is Gene Simmons Family Jewels. Now I call it a ‘sitcom’ because the stuff on it is so outrageous some of it has to be scripted, but that’s another article for another day!

What I want to talk about today is how I noticed some of the things Gene does to promote his rock band ‘Kiss’. It got me thinking about the music industry in general and how good they are at creating and promoting their content (the music).

So I’ve come up with what I think are some great content marketing lessons we can all learn from rock bands. Let’s jump right into it with the first lesson… Read more…

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