Curation Revolution

Why You Must Curate Content
We shocked a SEO Meetup suggesting 90% curation to 10% content creation. This deck explains why you MUST curate content. Content curation is a CSF (Critical Success Factor) for online marketing.

Among the 7 Reasons we share content are these three:

* Proof of "Digital Listening"

* Reach
* Costs

Discover 4 more reasons you must curate content at Haiku Deck: https://shar.es/1vwHY8 

Myths Cost Internet Marketers Money
I'm not a big myth believer. As a former Director of Ecommerce and now Marketing Director for Raleigh's leading software and web development company Atlantic BT I tend to believe in metrics and experience.

When I left e-commerce to become a B2B marketer I heard a persistent myth - that B2B marketing was dramatically different than B2C. After two years this post argues there is NO DIFFERENCE between the core of B2B and B2C marketing.

Just FEELS different :).

Story may be the most important but least understood online marketing word there is. Understand why storytelling is "beyond important" for web marketing.

THE Content Review Goldmine
I love to debate the differences between B2C and B2B Internet marketing. When I left my Director of Ecommerce position to become Dir of Marketing for Atlantic BT, Raleigh's largest web and software development agency, I heard about how different B2C (what I knew) and B2B were from one another. 

Yeah not so much. 

Timing is different, but not as different as you think. B2C only SEEMS like their transactions are immediate. On the Ecom site I managed at this time of year we would expect 3 to 4 visits before a purchase. 

The summer is slow for most B2C Holiday-oriented websites, but Christmas happens on Google right now. The snap shot from the summer is what controls the fall so Christmas gets earlier and earlier for most ecommerce merchants. 

Big ticket B2B selling is more relationship based. You can translate that last sentence to mean more visits and so content plays a key role in building the relationship over time and converting the sale (even though connecting the top of a B2B websites funnel with the bottom can be a challenge). 

I developed this analysis for Bazaar Voice, still a favorite tool despite their turning down Cure Cancer Starter for assistance via their nascent foundation. I wanted to alert Bazaar Voice that there is a business AT LEAST as big as the one they are managing now (about $40M topline) in content reviews. 

They didn't buy it. I think they missed a huge new market. Content marketers have "products" too. Our products are the content we create. Reviews generated more engagement than "comments" and reviews are already half way to gamification. 

Why haven't B2B content marketers flocked to Bazaar Voice? Because they don't know what they don't know and, oh btw, B2B is so different than B2C. 

Yeah not so much. 

Read this "white paper" analysis and see if you don't think there is a sizable business sitting on the ground waiting to be picked up.