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Sharing Our Secrets
Any secret has at least two parts. TOOLS are one part ofour content curation secret and how we knit these five "secret" and highly disruptive tools into a content and social marketing engine the other part.

5 Scret and Disruptive Content Curation Tools

Used one way these tools are harmless, used another they become a RPG capable of launching bombs sure to disrupt any busines segment. 

Here are 5 Internet marketing tactics some genius friends are using to have a happy holidays (with names and website identieis kept secret as promised):

1. Mobile Games.

2. Disruptions.

3. Asking for help.

4. Listening.

5. Crowdfunding

What are you doing that is cool, unique and different this holidays? Tell me if you can, if not hope you will in January :). M  

After creating the Story of Cancer Store (https://storyofcancer.gostorego.com/ ;) in a matter of days I learned 5 valuable "New Ecommerce" lessons including:

1. Everyone Should Have A Store.

2. Stores Are Easy.

3. Stores Are Visual.

4. Stores Tell Stories.

5. Stores Are Fun.

Your brand and Internet marketing is STRONGER with a store and creating a store is becoming one of the most profitable and underutilized ideas in Internet marketing (especially for B2B relationship based sellers).  

I Scoop Therefore I am. 3 reasons to love Scoop.it for your company, brands or personal brand. 

Startups are fun, creative & may be our best hope. This second of a two part Curatti series covers startup trends from digital homes to wearable tech.

As I was putting the finishing touches on this second post in a 2 part Startup Trends 2014 for Curatti.com one of our featured Smart Home Startups @Nest sold to Google for $3.2B. Amazing.

More than 25 other cool startups covered some of them will be worth billions too :). M

Can a soda machine teach important Intenret markeitng lessons? Yep, the brilliant Coke Feestyle machine is a stduy in Lego-like building simple, adding touch so even complex things feel easy and the "appification" of everything.

We share ideas for how to move Coke Freestyle machines into an Internet of things by using a mobile app to create community and gamify their very cool soda machine: :

Haiku Deck (@HaikuDeck) is becoming one of my favorite Internet marketing tools. As I mention in the linked post great tools make good Internet marketers great and great IMers fantastic. Haiku Deck, a visual storytelling tool and presentation tool, is a GREAT and very cool tool. 

Even better? You don't have to learn a whole new way of thinking to use Haiku Deck. The UI is intuitive and build FOR marketers by marketers.  

Content Marketing Tools For Startups
I didn't write this post with #Startups in mind, but I could have. Startups wrestle with content marketing. I suggest these content marketing tools for any startup:

* Paper.li

* Scoop.it
* Google Analytics
* Google Adwords
* Google Plus
* Twitter
* A Blog (WordPress) 

It is possible to change the world with those seven tools.  

The linked post explains how I use Paper.li for everything from spidering the social web to reputation management. If you are a startup and don't know what either of those ideas are, trust me you will and I promise to post more about content marketing for startups soon.