Thinking Outside the Text Box: 6 Ways to Increase the Life of Your Content
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• 8 years of marketing and PR experience• 11 years of journalism and editing
experience• Responsible for SEJ’s entire content strategy
to drive traffic & increase community engagement
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What Happens to “Dead” Content?
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Why You Should Think Outside The Text Box
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Do you repurpose content?
a) Yesb) Noc) Planning on it
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Social Media Images• 87% of the most shared
content posts on Facebook are images
• Key Takeaways• Statistics• Quotes from cited experts
or post author
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SlideShare <-> Written Content• SlideShare has 159 million
monthly pageviews• Dilute Your Content:
Summaries of main points
URL to white paper in description
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Repurposing The Same ContentSurveyMonkey uses their own product, the survey platform, to create & upload presentations, PDFs, and infographics
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Audio Transcription• Mixing learning
mediums up can increase attention span, according to NPR*
• Transcribe your content for more accessibility
• Also consider transcribing video interviews and podcasts to text
*http://goo.gl/OBbuCe
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Podcasts, aka On-Demand Audio
• We are the “Netflix generation”
• Podcasts make up almost 26% of ALL AUDIO listened to on audio devices (car, phone, etc.)
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Podcasts• Invite experts on your podcast to add insight to blog topics
• Recap white papers, studies, blog posts, etc.
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Over 78% of all U.S. internet users watch
video. That’s almost 196 million viewers.
*Source: http://www.statista.com/topics/1137/online-video/
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VideoPublish FROM Video• Interviews that are
turned into blog posts• On-Demand Audio
Versions• Gifs of interesting
insight• Breaking Industry News NewEggTV has over 408,000 subscribers and
different bloggers as hosts
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Video
Walmart has over 86,000 YouTube Subscribers
Publish TO Video• Discussions of long-
form posts• Explaining key topics• Turn long-form into a
presentation
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Content syndication can bring up to 180% more email subscribers, as well as
increased traffic and social media engagement.
http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2345534/should-you-syndicate-your-blog-to-get-more-traffic-leads
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Content SyndicationTake your content and repurpose on a bigger platform, like Tumblr and partner sites, with proper redirects in place
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If you do repurpose content, what is your favorite way to do so?a) Social media
imagesb) Webinars or
podcastsc) Audio or video
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Let’s Use a Real Example: Nike
Social media images and SlideShare with
running tips
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Let’s Use a Real Example: Nike
• Do audio and video interviews with the runners
• Give exclusive video content to bloggers for them to republish
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Think Outside The Text Box:3 Takeaways
1. Convert written content into different formats (or vice versa) to extend the life of your content
2. Publishing in different formats can increase user attention span and interest
3. Consider on-demand audio and partnering with other publishers to make your content go further
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