If you have been following my series on “Mastering Content Curation” then you realize there are many different types of content and ways to find content to share with a business’ target audience.

Today, in the fourth post in the series, we are going to explore content curation platforms and how using these types of sites can help a business find content to share. These platforms can also be used as a tool to deliver the content to a business’ audience.

Content Curation Platforms Save Time

Content curation platforms search the web (or their site in some cases) for appropriate content in response to a keyword query and return results, much like a Google search. Most of these applications have features that allow a user to share curated content with others, either by posting it directly on Facebook, Twitter or another social media account, or by building up a list of followers directly on the curation site. Visit Advice Local to [read more].

Last time I published, it was on the secret sauce of content marketing – content curation. Ideally, all business owners would have the time each day to sit down and write about their products, services and how they’re helping new customers — but it just isn’t possible. Instead, they can leverage content curation to assist in keeping their blog publishing and social media updated.

As mentioned in my earlier post, content curation a type of content marketing where businesses can select, organize and add value to content created by others. In doing this, they are playing a role similar to that of a newspaper editor or museum curator. It’s like plucking gems from the rushing river of content that appears online every day and presenting the best of it as a service to their customers.

There are bonuses for the businesses in content curation, too. First, by monitoring content topics and choosing the best pieces, they automatically keep current with developments and new ideas in their industry. Content curation takes less time than content creation so they have more time to run their business each day. Finally, because they’re up to date with the latest and greatest, everyone’s impressed and their reputation as the go-to pro in the field grows tremendously. Visit Advice Local to [read more].

In my work, I often hear executives say they don’t have time to create content for their business’ websites. They’re already fully occupied with running their businesses and believe, not without cause, that content marketing just takes too much time. That’s one big reason so many hire Advice Local to manage this part of marketing for them.

For some business owners and managers, however, there are good reasons to take the time to work on content marketing themselves. For instance, they want to experiment with it so they can learn more about their customers’ needs and wants. Or, they want to understand more about the content marketing processes so they can make smarter choices about what to outsource and who to hire. Maybe they’re running a startup and just don’t have the budget to outsource content marketing right now. Whatever the reason, content curation is definitely one way to boost marketing efforts. Let’s explore more on that today. Visit Advice Local to [read more].

Once you create great content, you can repurpose it into many different useful resources to educate current partners, engage prospective customers and generate further site traffic through social media, email marketing and more.

Before I move on to methods for repurposing content, let’s define what “repurposing” means:

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, repurposing means to change (something) so that it can be used for a different purpose.

A positive side effect of repurposing content is saving energy, money and efforts on the resources it takes to constantly create new content. But there is another even bigger reason you should repurpose content into many different forms… Visit Advice Local to [read more].