Have you considered automating your content marketing? Content marketing automation takes traditional content marketing tasks and automates them to save you time and money. Thoughtful read.

Key content marketing principles to guide your strategy.

Oh How I need to master these 7 principles. Maybe you do to. Check them them out and leverage their effectiveness.

This is a very useful collection of best practices and tips for infographics.

Great Infographics and content marketing tips for marketers, PR pros and small business.

10 conseils pour réussir ses infographies. Toujours rester user-friendly.

Good look at content marketing, what constitutes results and how businesses are using or abusing it.

40% of marketing content goes unused by sales because they don't know where to find it or feel overwhelmed by the deluge.

The infographic accompanying this post is an excellent resource for those planning to write and publish an eBook.

interesting tips & tricks

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8 applications pour vous accompagner dans votre stratégie social media

This article was about eight apps that helps with social media marketing. Social Media marketing is a growing effective medium that brands are using to stay engaged and connected with their target audience. Since digital marketing plays a huge role of reaching out to potential and old customers across the world, these are useful tips to help a social media employee. As the networking world continues to grow there are many useful and un-useful apps and businesses are wondering which one is the most effective and this article cuts through the clutter of all of them to find the apps that contributed to financial success with businesses.

Hoot suite is an app that acts as a virtual personal assistant that manages latest updates from the company. With this app you can set up a date and time to send out a tweet, this is beneficial because it helps businesses reach the right customers at the right time. This helps when marketing a campaign and new advertisements. LocalVox is an app similar to hoot suite to manage promotions and brand building tasks.it also helps to view business ratings and reviews. Tweet bot is also similar to these apps by helping managing heavy traffic and send out messages without having to type manually. 

Heyo and Chirpify are apps helpful to business to sell their products easily with no hassle. Heyo enables potential customers to make a purchase directly on Facebook reducing the risk of missed opportunities. Chirpify helps customers buy products with just using the hash tag #buy. This is beneficial because the new customer has just started a public conversation which will lead to more publicity and more buys.

Another useful app is called mentions; this app helps monitor and analyze the impact of an online business. It helps keeps track of website performance, reply to post via email or mobile and communicate with customers on the go. Last but not least is an app called Evernote, which allows you to organize your notes, thoughts, ideas, share files, and photos within instant reach. This is beneficial because it helps you remember important things that you do not want to forget.

Being a future PR and social media savvy user this article interested me a lot because it will help me stand out from the next candidate if I know the most effective tools to use to promote a company or brand. From previous PR crisis, I know that Hootsuite is an app I need to be very cautious of using because many social media users accidentally posted inappropriate things from the app on accident. From other company’s mistakes, I know not to even associate my personal social media pages with this app to avoid any mishaps. As social media marketing is growing as a PR professional I need to grow with it and be on top of all of the useful tools I can use. I tied this article back to chapter 8 because to have a good relationship with a consumer you have to use appealing and useful tactics. These eight apps are useful marketing tools that can help grow a brand and reach their target audience.

Useful content marketing advice from Joe Pulizzi.

What's ahead for content marketing?

Thanks for this, most interested in the predictions about real people feature inncreasigly in content, it reads somewhat ironically doesn'tit with all the social interactions everyone is engaged upon?

I am pondering whether its more about authenticity that underpins the real people and events and havig something that actually connects emotionally as well as logically as more than a conversion click? 

In the UK there has been a real swing in mainstream xmas advertising led by an upmarket Department store chain called John Lewis, the others have tried to copy but they have not done it as well. The Ad hardly mentions the brand or the product and the feature is a costly animation. Interesting to see such emotive content and everyone is talking about it around the Xmas campaigns. Guess its a bit resonant with the Apple Think Different Ads. So how Companies trnslate that into streams of online content that fit the overall Brand Strategy is going to be interesting...

Theres a post about Facebook's Compassion and Content Strategy Teams and how they are researching and refining dealing with annoying content, may seem off-track but in terms of the future of Content Marketing understanding how not to endup with users tuning out may well be key? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/facebook-compassion_n_4441716.html strikes me that in business content we will face similar and significant challenges in the battle against the white noise even more so now Facebook say theya re carefully rolling out auto play video ads the bane of most users and the price they pay for a free platform...

Food for thought thanks again!