Before writing, promoting, and publishing your next book, eBook, or content marketing premium (i.e., a report, SlideShare presentation, video, white paper, etc.), take a moment to make sure you’ve chosen the best possible title.Continue Reading

The following checklist, questions, and tips form a system that can help you proof and improve the quality of the SlideShare presentations you create using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Proofing is a crucial step in using SlideShare for content marketing, as it involves more than just simply checking for spelling errors or transposed numbers.Continue Reading

SlideShare is more than just a way to share your presentations online; it can be a powerful content marketing tool that can turbocharge all of your publishing endeavors.

Regardless of the reasons why you’re publishing — whether it’s to generate leads, build your list, educate your prospects, enhance user satisfaction, or promote your informational products — you can use SlideShare at every step of your process as you plan, write, promote, and profit from the content you create in the form of print books, eBooks, reports, tip sheets, white papers, and more.Continue Reading

If your content isn’t being designed for easy readability (the measure of how easy it is for prospects to read the words in your message), it could be what’s standing between you and content marketing success.

With so many competing messages available just a click away, our print and online messages must be as easy to read as possible.

Readability is not something that can be reserved for formal publications like annual reports or four-color brochures. All of our content marketing messages should be easy to read.Continue Reading

Mind mapping is a content marketing productivity tool that involves both an approach and a specific category of software.

Mind mapping adds a visual dimension to words and ideas, helping content marketers handle today’s challenges of complexity, increased responsibilities, and information overload.

A recent study by Innovation Trend’s Chuck Frey, for example, revealed that not only did mind mapping immediately and significantly enhance most user’s productivity, the more they used mind mapping, the more productive they became. Continue Reading

In a recent interview, Marcus Sheridan referred to content marketing as the “weapon Davids use to slay Goliaths every day.”

Marcus’s words resonated deeply with me. That’s because, long before content marketing came of age, I watched it help a David Seattle retailer slay its Goliath competitors and go on to an $87 million buyout and a nationwide presence.Continue Reading

Content marketing productivity involves more than just creating great content, it also involves tracking and applying the good ideas you find in the blog posts you read each week.

Each week, for example, you encounter a staggering amount of information and good ideas. Even if you only read the 10 new blog posts that appear each week on the Content Marketing Institute blog, and the average blog post only contains five ideas, that’s still a lot of information to absorb and catalog for future reference.Continue Reading

Looking to increase your content marketing productivity? To get yourself started, try using this two-step approach to creating an editorial calendar:Continue Reading