The problem with old school content marketing: ever more content to compete with! And an ever decreasing benefit for the target audience: new content, created for marketing purposes, will be ever faster identified as such and will not be perceived as value content. The solution curating valuable content that already exists (but may be covered in SERPs by thick mud layers of newly created marketing content)
2. Curation Marketing = Intelligent Marketing
The problem with old school content marketing:
There is ever more content to compete with
There is an ever smaller perceived benefit for the target audience
The solution and why it’s difficult:
Curate proven, valuable content that already exists for a while
There are lots of tools, but: it takes time, curation is not fully automatable
Here is a quick and easy way for curating travel related topics:
3. Where and what to curate
Urlaub99Euro.de is yet another travel site for vacation in Germany.
Vacation providers can publish offers and tourism information.
New service: travelers, vacationers, marketers can publish, too:
Share embeddable media like YouTube, Google Earth, SlideShare
Share great content in engaging formats: as embeds!
Add titles, paragraphs and links - that’s where curation kicks in
Full control: your post can be edited, refined and embellished later
And the winner is: this totally easy access with a single-word access key
Dr. Eckard Ritter, inventor
of Urlaub99Euro and its
new travel curation service
5. Example: new user J. Otto
J. Otto chose the nickname j_otto (no special characters, no spaces)
In the hello message this will become J OTTO to let it look more natural
6. The email we send you looks like this:
Use your key for posting
Use the login link to edit posts or customize your key: make it memorable
7. First lets us change the key to a memorable one
Go to Address & Settings, scroll down and change your key to a word you can easily
remember but which is hard to guess, like ottohero or otto7801 (min. 8 char.)
This is how the edit menu looks like, it’s still empty, no posts
8. Now start curating
Go to any of the topic pages listed here http://www.urlaub99euro.de/urlaub/ - for
instance: Budget Travel Germany - and press Add a Post, it’s self-explaining
9. Full control: edit your posts anytime
Where there is a typo or you would like to add a note just log in with your key at
http://www.urlaub99euro.de/travel-media-board-registration/login.cfm to edit.
13. This is what you can edit:
Title: Add a meaningful title, max 255 characters (but better less then 70)
Description: Add a descriptive paragraph
URL: The post will exhibit a link to this URL and display it
IMG: Enter an image URL (full URL with http://…)
MEDIA_EMBED: Paste an embed code (should be an IFRAME, no script)
EMBEDLY_URL: Enter or paste a URL and built-in Embedly will render it,
including an image
14. All pages at a glance
All media boards http://www.urlaub99euro.de/urlaub/
Sign up to get a key http://www.urlaub99euro.de/travel-media-board-registration/
Sign in http://www.urlaub99euro.de/travel-media-board-registration/login.cfm