Content Marketing

Imagine that instead of pitching your products or services, you deliver information that makes your buyer more intelligent. Basically, content marketing is the art of communicating with your customers and prospects without selling. It is non-interruption marketing.

Content marketing will become increasingly important given the sheer amount of advertising and deluge of information that is present on the internet. Businesses that are adept and marketing savvy already take this into account when creating their advertising campaigns; with this list of resource you will be able to grasp the concept and acquire services that will help you do the same.

Content Marketing Software Providers

FlashIssue – A different way to get your message out
OneSpot – Helps you recommend content for your audience
CI Thread – Content marketing, production and distribution
Curationstation – Improves content marketing
The Content Factor – Atlanta based content generation & marketing company
Vertical Response – Content Marketing & E-mail campaign management

Tools for Content Marketers

Content Marketing Today – Resources specifically for content marketing
Google Alerts – Monitors the web for new content based on your keywords
Google News – Indexes news from all over the web
BlogRank – The top blogs in one place
Delicious – Find and collect cool stuff and share easily
Alltop – All the top headlines for content marketing
POPURLS – News and content aggregator
Yahoo News – News indexed by Yahoo
Bing News – News indexed by Bing
Reddit – Stories are indexed based on popularity
Fark – Real news that’s real funny

Content Marketing Websites

Clipboard – A place to save, organize and share the web
Scoop.it – Easily publish online magazines
mySyndicaat – News, blogs and business information aggregator
pearltrees – A place to collect, discover and share things you like
Mashable Examples – Highlights how 3 major companies took advantage of content marketing

Content Marketing News & Blogs

FlashIssue Blog – Daily source for the most useful content marketing info
Content Marketing Institute – Solid source for industry news and trends
Web Ink Now – Smart commentary on marketing and leadership strategies
Read Write Web –  Technology news, reviews
Mashable – Web related news on social media, technology, content, etc…

Content Curation & Social Media

LinkedIn Content Marketing Weekly – The top 5 most useful articles for the week
LinkedIn Content Marketing Help – Solid group, good way to brainstorm and get help
Twitter Content Institute – The Content Marketing Institute’s Twitter homepage

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