Monday, June 18, 2012

Tips for creating killer content: look beyond your industry & audience

     Being relevant doesn’t mean you can only write about your niche. In fact, looking beyond your niche and making useful connections between seemingly unrelated things is often the inspiration for fun, eye-opening content.
     Social media researcher Dan Zarrella calls this concept “combined relevance,” and recommends it as a way to create content that gets noticed and goes viral. After all, your customers and prospects have a lot of different interests, so when you offer something that features two of those interests in a surprising way, you’ve got a good chance of really connecting with the people who care about both of those things.
     Keep your eyes open for combined relevance examples wherever you go. A terrible experience with an airline after a canceled flight could spark a blog post about the importance of customer service. A popular movie might inspire you to compare the characters to products that your business sells. If the coach of your favorite football team makes a terrible decision, mull over how that scenario applies to business management.
     The possibilities are endless once you get used to looking at the world as fuel for marketing content.

     Source: A practical guide to killer marketing content (HubSpot) e-book

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