Curation Revolution

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Leaving Wordpress
Wordpress is killing us. We are exhausted with cave diving. We must cave dive because the world's largest blogging platform has become so opaque the it's main premise - create web content without an IT department - is spoiled.  

Here are our 5 reasons for leaving Wordpress as fast as our friends at WTE.net will have us:

• Spam & Attacks
• Unrealized Promise
• Crap Overload
• SEO & Performance
• No Easy Multi-Platform Content Curation

http://www.curagami.com/5-reasons-we-are-leaving-wordpress/

Drone Marketing
Watch the insanely cool video of the DARPA drone flying indoors at 45mph and ask if your content is that cool. Even better ask how you can co-opt cool content like this to serve your brand, website and goals. 

The web is always about two things - NOW and EVERYTHING. If you and your team truly understand those ideas and how they apply to the web and your online marketing then you watch a seemingly unrelated video of a drone thinking, "How can we use this".

The web is always about NOW and EVERYTHING so if you use the platform your marketing is always happening NOW and is about EVERYTHING whether you realize it or not.  

7 SEO Tips and Trends
Appreciate @Os Ishmael sharing Anne Carton's great 7 SEO Trends for 2016 Post today. Anne's post was so good we linked it from the Curagami post it inspired. Our 7 SEO Trends / Tips for 2016:

* Great Content Creates Community (despite Content Shock) 

* Mobile and Smartphones Are Changing Everything

* Video RULES

* Community Is KEY

* Community Shock Is Coming

* Empower Ambassadors, Understand Proxy Marketing

* Fresh and NOW Beat Stale and THEN

Be sure to add your SEO tips for 2016 and we will mash them into this post with a link back and our thanks.

http://www.curagami.com/7-seo-tips-for-2016/?v=7516fd43adaa

Favorite About Us pages shares an e-commerce master class video on how to create a great About Us page and asks for your favorite About Us Pages examples.

Great About Us Pages:

* Tell A Story.
* Share Values

* Outline a Movement

* Help Build Community

Share your favorite about us pages in reactions (on Scoop.it), comments on the Curagmai post or email martin(at)Curagami.com.
Thanks, Marty  

Context & Conversations
What we say and do must match up these days. The web is a huge lie detecting amplifier. More than being honest about ourselves and our products, services and company intentions we must be honest with the tribe we form.

Valuing others is at the core of the marketing revolution upon us. Mad Men days are over. The future of marketing is about having positive, self fulfilling context and conversations. 

Our Curagami Saturday Read
http://www.curagami.com/context-conversations-future-of-marketing/?v=7516fd43adaa  

Homeland & SEO
Watching Homeland episodes to catch up before the great TV show's season opener we realized our favorite spy story has a lot in common with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) including:

* Paranoid.
* Surprise

* Sisyphus

* Ignorance

* Tribes

Working on a http://www.Curagami.com post, in the meantime find the slidedeck here:
https://shar.es/17ByZi 
 

Quiz Power shares the engagement and excitement personality profile quizzes can bring to digital marketing. What Famous Painting Are You?

How To Make $30M Online
When people ask me how teams I've managed made more than $30M online I say it's simple - find your 80:20 Rule, double down on winners, leave laggards and hire great people.

None of those things are nearly as "simple" as they sound, but you must know what NOT to do. Any website has an enduring and constant fractal called the 80:20 Rule. This post includes a video about the importance of your 80:20 Rule, how to use what you find and a link to an earlier post on how to find your 80:20 Rule. 

http://www.curagami.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fractals-cover-image.png 

 

Why You Must Curate Content
Scoop.it is a great tool we've used for years. We finally had a chance to use the easy to use and understand feed embed tool. The ability to easily add feeds into your blogs and websites means content curation is easy to create and add into your content marketing mix. 

The linked post explains why content curation is a MUST. Content curation is less expensive, has more reach and develops more community than content creation alone. We seen the damage pushing more content with less support can create in engagement and SEO. 

Don't do that (push content at the expense of curation) is our best online marketing advice. 

Content Marketing Battle UGC vs Landing Pages shares the battle with User Generated Content platforms and landing pages. We favor hybrid content marketing.

Link Lessons
Inbound Links can teach you a lot about content marketing.  This post shares lessons from Curagami's Top 10 Posts including:

* Surf Waves Don't Create 'em

* Know Your 80-20 Rules

* Write What You Know & Tell Stories

Learn more lessons from Curagami's 8,000 links in:
http://www.curagami.com/link-lessons/?v=7516fd43adaa  

5 Super Secret Marketing Trends
We see 5 big marketing trends for 2016. Yet few seem to be discussing these five trends as a group. More so individually, but these 5 trends work hand in glove. Maximum return comes from combining synergies from all five 2016 Super Secret Marketing Trends including:

* Become A Nowist

* Give Keys To Your Digital Kingdoms To the Kids (community)

* Conduct a Symphony of Feeds

* Appify and Gamify

* Disrupt and Find Blue Oceans

Each of those fingers makes a powerful raised fist of change for 2016. Even if you only believe in or adopt 2 out of the 5 you will be better off next year than this.

5 Super Secret Marketing Trends for 2016
http://www.curagami.com/5-super-secret-marketing-trends/?v=7516fd43adaa 

Adding Scoop.it Magazines
Adding Scoopit Magazines to a blog or website is a Curagami post that shares the easy how and why of adding @Scoop.it "magazines" (feeds) and content curation, to your blog or website. Content curation via Scoopit adds inexpensive reach and customer engagement generating loyalty and return on investment.

Headphones For Video Gamers
Friends at http://www.Moon-Audio.com  created a great example of great ecommerce content marketing. Their Headphones For Video Games Buying Guide (http://www.moon-audio.com/headphones-for-video-games.html ) shares content from their founder Drew Baird (video) and 3 of their "Ambassadors". 

Moon Audio Ambassadors are audiophiles recruited to help. They provide feedback on ideas, test gear and write great content. The ASK is so important these days. No one climb to the top of the content marketing mountain alone.

We all need trusted Sherpas such as Moon Audio's Ambassadors and content geared to our customers just like Moon's Headphones for Video Games Buying Guide magazine. Also a great example of how to magazine content marketing.

Headphones For Video Games Buying Guide
http://www.moon-audio.com/headphones-for-video-games.html  

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 

How Their Rank Teaches You SEO Lessons
SEO: Their Rank Talks To You, but are you listening, emulating category leaders and finding ways to disrupt your space to win hearts, minds and loyalty online is the "new SEO". 

So if your question is, "You talking to ME?" and you are asking Google the answer is YES.