If you were unable to attend the conference for Content Marketing World 2012 this week you missed out on quite the show (Rick Springfield performed Wednesday night and Jack Hanna had an animal presentation Thursday afternoon!) and a bunch of insightful content marketing tidbits of knowledge.
For those of you that haven’t yet, make sure to review the 10 tweets from day 1 and check out the #cmworld feed on Twitter to catch up and everything you missed out on.
Below are 10 key tweets to help you take key learning points back to your leadership team to let them know what you missed out on so you can make a case for attending CMW 2013! Check out the tweets, follow the tweeters and apply the insights into your own content marketing activities.
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Golden nugget: “Your community is only as interested in you as you are in it.” (Or something like that.) @leeodden slinging winners #cmworld
— Barry Feldman (@FeldmanCreative) September 6, 2012
Insight: Be active, get involved in your business industries community and customers will become aware of you.
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Good content should educate, engage, and empower. #cmworld
— Jess Ostroff (@jessostroff) September 6, 2012
Insight: Every piece of content you publish should accomplish at least one of those three for your audience.
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We have to use content marketing to engage our teams and our peers … before we engage our audiences. @robert_rose #cmworld
— Sarah Skerik (@SarahSkerik) September 6, 2012
Insight: It all starts from within. If your team isn’t engaged, neither will your audience be.
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80% of all blog traffic comes from a first-time visitor. That’s huge. @chrisbaggott #cmworld
— Kelly Kautz (@kellykautz) September 6, 2012
Insight: Are you still pondering how to attract new customers? It’s all about content.
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Email is NOT dead. Even LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are using email to keep people engaged. #cmworld via Jeff Rohrs
— Candyce Edelen (@CandyceEdelen) September 6, 2012
Insight: Email may not be sexy, but it sure can be effective.
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Content marketing is not about storytelling, it’s about telling a true story well. @marketingprofs #cmworld
— Elizabeth Miller (@ElizabethanM) September 6, 2012
Insight: Enough said.
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“When someone asks me if blogging is dead, they’re basically asking me if teaching and communicating is dead.” @thesaleslion #cmworld
— PR News (@PRNews) September 6, 2012
Insight: Content marketing/blogging is alive and well. And if you don’t get started on it your competitors will be eating your lunch soon.
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“Be the best teacher in the world at what you do” — @thesaleslion #cmworld
— Jay Baer (@jaybaer) September 6, 2012
Insight: You can be/are a subject matter expert. Become the best and spread your knowledge through your content.
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Stop selling, start helping. @copywriterto #cmworld
— Sarah Skerik (@SarahSkerik) September 6, 2012
Insight: Don’t make it about you, its about them. It’s always been about them.
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5 presentation tips from @junglejackhanna – Be passionate, be genuine, tell stories, know your content, and bring animals!! #cmworld
— Jon Thomas (@Story_Jon) September 6, 2012
Insight: Anyone can produce great content and change the world. Help Jack empower people to save animals.
To learn more check out the CMI blog for further conference recaps.