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Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies
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Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies

by Stephanie Diamond
January 2016
Beginner
408 pages
8h 55m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Sharing Your Content

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding why people share

arrow Getting your message out on social platforms

arrow Examining the 5 Ws of sharing

arrow Trying out social bookmarking

When the web was still a novelty, getting people to read your online posts was easy. When I started working at AOL in 1994, people would rejoice at the sound of “You’ve got mail!” Well, those days are clearly over.

The likelihood that someone will read something you wrote gets more remote all the time. Who knew that getting people to read and share what you create would be one of the biggest problems faced by content marketers in 2015?

In this chapter, you examine how strategically sharing your content can make the difference between a wildly popular brand and one that is ignored. You also look at why people share content, as well as where and how they share it.

Embracing Shareability As a Strategy

One battle cry that can be heard throughout marketing departments today is the notion that sharing content should be everyone’s job. It used to be that only customer-facing employees were encouraged to share. ...

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