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I was visiting a company the other day and chatting about stories. I mentioned how tough it is for any business to gather their customer stories and the two principles snorted, threw their hands up while rolling their eyes, and said, “That’s for sure! We’ve tried it.” So this blog post is all about how … Via janlgordon 
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These are the digital marketing skills advertising and Fortune 500 marketing executives value and need the most for 2014. Via janlgordon
Siri Anderson's curator insight,
February 1, 2014 9:16 AM
Interesting to consider as well from various roles/ fields -- what are the missing skills in social media amongst teachers, nurses, social workers, parents, students, police officers etc. 
Frederic Hohl's curator insight,
February 2, 2014 5:55 PM
What talents in digital marketing companies will look for in 2014
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janlgordon's curator insight,
November 12, 2013 12:19 PM
I want to thank you Marty Smith, who is one of the top scoopers, bloggers and amazing friend anyone could ever have. He wrote this wonderful piece on the launch of Curatti. Jan Gordon: It has been a long time coming I have always been passionate about new media and technology and how it impacts our everyday lives. My purpose was to help others stay current and informed. My vision was Curatti, a place where you could go to find the best information, tools and resources all in one place. Lots more to come in the coming months.
I created Curatti because as we all know, there is just too much content, too many changes everytime we turn around, not enough insights and most of all business people need to understand what information pertains to their needs and how they can utilize it to build sustainable businesses now and in the future. Curatti is committed to giving you only the best information and content from bloggers and curators that are doing outstanding things to shape the future of business. We hope you will visit Curatti, we welcome suggestions on future posts, that address the concerns and challenges you're having in your business today. Now my journey can become our journey as we navigate the digital world together. Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond Read more here: [http://bit.ly/17sDaI3]
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Customer Loyalty and Advocacy are Not Interchangeable Concepts - A loyal customer is not necessarily an advocate... Via janlgordon
janlgordon's comment,
July 10, 2013 1:12 PM
Todd Akira Morikawa Thank you for sharing, very much appreciated!
snappstare's curator insight,
July 13, 2013 7:12 AM
fairly obvious, but always good to remind ourselves of the factors between loyalists and advocates of a brand 
Trish Sadar's comment,
August 23, 2013 9:33 AM
Thank you for your insights! Donna, whether we are talking about a library or any other business. I think that it all depends on who my customers are. Who are they, what is important to them, and how can I add value. How can we as a business adapt, evolve, and respond to what our customer need from us. The art of story telling helps us to communicate in a way that we not only reach the minds of our audience...we also connect emotionally.
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This a timely and important piece from Mark Schaefer of {grow} in which he touches upon several issues which confront all of us who are trying to keep our heads above water in the ever-evolving world of Social Media.
To quote: "Not only do the platforms shift every day, the rules of engagement change constantly, too. Can anybody keep up with the real (and rumored) changes just to Facebook's EdgeRank formula? What we considered best practices six months ago are passé today. Social media is overwhelming, especially when there is pressure to master every new platform that comes along How do you keep up?."
Remember:
** Platforms may change but marketing fundamentals remain the same
** Absolutely nobody can navigate this changing world alone as there are too many facets to it, so form a mutually beneficial support group.
** There's too much informationfor any one person to keep on top of all of it, so pick a main focus and try really hard to keep mainly to that.
** Know your audience and go where you will find them. This might mean giving up on one of the major platforms. Swallow hard and do it!
** The more successful you become and the more your reach grows, the less time you will have to engage one-on-one with people. Don't let yourself feel guilty about this as it is inevitable.
** Go to a trusted source for information but be warned: Such a place may not (yet) exist.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
See article here: [http://bit.ly/VcYLb]
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Focusing on customers to the exclusion of everyone and everything else can kill a business just as easily as neglect. Via janlgordon
janlgordon's comment,
December 15, 2013 11:40 PM
Marty Koenig, Thank you Marty! You are so right, if we keep talking to each other and following popular trends, it's very possible that we will miss the boat. .
Charles Rein's curator insight,
December 17, 2013 12:15 PM
The Idea of the Customer comes first, then the plan to pull them into your market 
Ray Beauchamp's curator insight,
December 28, 2013 4:23 PM
"the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs".
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janlgordon's curator insight,
November 13, 2013 12:50 PM
This thought-provoking piece was written by Marty Smith who is one of our top scoopers here who knows what he's talking about when it comes to curation and why it is disruptive in this marketplace. Marty gives you some great tips on how to use Scoopit to evaluate what works and what doesn't with your audience and more.... Marty Smith: "When everyone is doing something as complicated as content marketing quality goes down. My ratios used to be about 50% curation to 50% creation. we can afford to lower creation now for two reasons:
Snippet Curation with a powerful tool like Scoop.it moves your Internet marketing away from the pack. The pack is creating content faster and faster without a full understanding of what works Most content marketers add NOISE in the hope screaming louder will make content stand out. It never does. Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering, Curation, Social Business and Beyond Read more here: [http://bit.ly/1aD3c6j] 
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
November 14, 2013 12:59 PM
I've said this before, and will repeat...Contet Curation is not just for the Marketeers. I think it is as yet a vastly untapped skill/resource/process for Enterprise information professionals (IM/KM) in delivering themed, value--added and decision-ready content for their internal customers. #kmers #curation
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You don't need more content. You need old content. I know, that's not what you usually hear, so stick with me and we will look at some numbers to see why it is so important. Via janlgordon
Albert Green's comment,
September 11, 2013 9:43 AM
Although the idea is very interesting, I don't see any valid arguments that OLD content is the key to high rankings. You even can't say there's a correlation here because 14/30 pages are less then 1 year old and 16/30 are more than 1 year old.
The method for determining OLD website is also faulty since the age of domain is not the same as the age of the content itself. So if the page has been updated within this year, it should be labeled as new. To my mind, 90% of the TOP10 search results pages have been updated during last year, so this would mean that NEW content is the key to high rankings. And since this is just a hypothesis, I must present an actual trend that has been spotted by SEO specialists recently. After latest Google Search engine updates, fresh content easily wins over old content with a lot of backlinks. If OLD content was the king, there would be NO fresh content (up to 1 month old) on first page at all. 
Karen Tracey McCarty's curator insight,
January 30, 2014 12:07 PM
Some things we know are better with age, like wine and wisdom, but content? Seriously? Read on to see stats showing why your old content can be a power horse for generating increased site traffic and search results.
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Infographics have become more popular with the rise of social media, fuelling the need for instant results by providing content in bite-size chunks. Via janlgordon, roberto toppi
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight,
January 27, 2013 6:05 PM
An infographic on infographics and trends on visual communication. Very relevant to learning quickly and memorably. ~ Deb
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I selected this piece by Patricia Redsicker for Social Media Examiner for two reasons -
**It's a great review of Lee Oden's new book Optimize: How to Engage Your Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing
**The book is timely and relevant it's about optimizing content for customer and user experiences, rather than for search engines which is becoming increasingly important
Here's what caught my attention:
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for an Optimized State of Mind
**Use words that matter most to your customers in titles, links and body copy in order to inspire your readers to take action
Chapter 9: Content Isn't King, It's the Kingdom - Creation vs. Curation
**mix curated content with original content. In fact, curating is a great way to extend your own site, but only in addition to—not instead of—your original content
So many great tips on types of content to curate, here are just a few:
**Content created by influential people who are important to your target audience
**Aggregating the best comments from your own or others's blogs
**White papers, ebooks and case studies
**Tips, how-to's and best practices
Chapter 11 Social Networking Development - Don't Be Late to the Networking Party
**Listen, participate, create optiized content and understand the triggers that will inspire sales or referrals
**It's important to know which specific social networks are relevant to your customers
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://tinyurl.com/cycs5g4] Via janlgordon
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