Must Market

SEO & Brands
Cart gets in front of horse a lot these strange marketing days. Team+Curagami has clients who know more about #seo  than branding. Cart squarely in front of horse. 

Think about the process. You know how to tell Google's spiders about your pages better than you know how to tell your customers why your products, services and company are their best bet (i.e. branding). Cart in front of horse. 

Don't be seduced by the latest shiny object. The core of online success is similar to the core of offline success - create great things that people MUST talk about, tell their friends and marvel at. Average need not apply anymore. as we share in Why The New SEO Looks Like the Old SEO: Brands: http://www.curagami.com/new-old-seo-brands/?v=7516fd43adaa 

Invisible Giant of the New SEO
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7 Reasons Must Curate Content
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Gamify Content Marketing
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Content Curators Added To Curagami
Content curation may be the ultimate team sport. Together we are smarter than alone. As we changed our startup http://www.Curagami.com look and feel today we added a place to share 3 favorite content curators each month.

December's Must Follow Content Curators:

@Cendrine Marrouat - https://www.cendrinemedia.com

@Neil Ferree

@Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com

Significant curators across every social net these special marketers sift a mountain of content daily so we their lucky followers are smarter, wiser and better informed. If you are NOT following Cendrine, Neil and Brian on Scoop.it, Twitter, Gplus and wherever else they contribute (blogs and company sites) you are missing the easiest way to learn content curation and Internet marketing we know.

Happy holidays to three of our favorite content curators, Scoopiteers and people. We will share 3 curators a month and won't have a problem filling up our 2015 content curation dance card.

Can subscriptions help your online marketing smote the invisible SEO giant? Like Curagami subscriptions create immediate engagement with real customers.

If you're still betting the farm on Email and PPC delivering you customers and revenue, you're falling behind.

Marty Note
Agree with every one of these "missing" ingredients:

* ROI Driven Metrics (what we are working so hard to create at our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami.
* Behavior Based Marketing.

* Complete goal alignment.

* Willingness to FAIL.

The last bullet is the one that really registers. When I started creating websites in 1999 we had nothing to lose and everything was new. As things grew we became more cautions. "More cautious" is a RX for disaster in Internet marketing.

Google may have done us a great favor by shuffling the deck so violently reminding us control is an illusion so taking RISKS makes sense.

The New New Marketing
There was a time before the web when "digital marketing" was somethign you did with your fingers. Then everything changed. Change came fast and furious thanks to Moore's Law - Integrated circuit POWER goes up exponentially even as costs plummet.

Once our digital world got to a certain point, let's call that point X, acceleration accelerates. Mobile throws gasoline on the social fire and gets answered by social media marketing with rocket fuel on the fire.

The resulting explosion in a kingdom called BRANDING in a land far, far away once upon a time...

Read the Curagami Story and worry less :). M

The Week On Feedly
We use the RSS reader Feedly to inspire our curation, content marekting and blogging. Easy to miss cool stuff so every Saturday we create a week in Feedly review.  

If you need to know why ecommerce is broken and what you can do about it download Why Ecommerce Marketing Is Broken.

Wondering what happened to SEO? Curagami Fellow Phil Buckley explains in How Conversations Became The New Links white paper.

Bot white papers are free, easy to download and on our homepage. You don't HAVE to join to get at 'em, but we love it when you do (join that is).

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Free websites can become expensive fast. So called Free Websites can hurt brand, seo and marketing. If something seems to good to be true...it is.

5 Reasons To Avoid "Free Websites"
* You Lose Control.

* Limited Plugins and Addons.
* Ads.

* Slow Site.
* Migration Challenges.

Thanks to @malekfor his great summary (as always) that reminded me to put the bullet points into the Scoop. Not following Malek?  You should because he SHARES, curates amazing stuff and helps a friend out (all the time). #toogood and a #mustfollow on my Top Scoopers list. Marty

There is a new invisible giant, a giant using 5 "tricks" so the "new seo" is hard and harder to see and understand. This Haiku Deck and Curatti blog post is about how to see the invisible giant. How to win hearts, minds and loyalty online.

Bunch O Balloons Featured on TODAY Show This morning!

Bunch O Balloons, an easy to use time saving water balloon invention, may make $1M on Kickstsarter thanks to great crowdfunding marketing and the new SEO. Team Curagami is in Charlotte at the Search Exchange Conference.

This Curatti post combines a fascinating new tool set capable of making "Editors of Chaos" come true and the story of how a crowdfunding project goes "mega-viral".

Is you digital marketing talking to itself about itself? Here are 10 Tips so your online marketing wins hearts, minds and loyalty. On Curagami & Curatti.

How aligned is yoru brand to its "ideals"? When former P&G Marketing Director Jim Stengel wrote Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profits at the World's Greatest comanies he may have created the most important branding checkliss.

Stengel defined 5 Brand Ideals:

• Eliciting Joy: Activating experiences of happiness, wonder, and limitless possibility.
• Enabling Connection: Enhancing the ability of people to connect with each other and the world in meaningful ways.
• Inspiring Exploration: Helping people explore new horizons and new experiences.
• Evoking Pride: Giving people increased confidence, strength, security, and vitality.
• Impacting Society: Affecting society broadly, including by challenging the status quo and redefining categories.