The document provides 10 tips for promoting content online without spamming others. The tips include looking for questions to answer with your content, using social media channels to share relevant content with followers, including content links in your online profiles, igniting snippets of content for sharing, participating in link roundups, promoting new content within old popular content, joining content sharing clubs, and writing personal notes to industry bloggers about relevant content. The overall message is that content should be promoted organically by engaging with audiences and sharing value, rather than blasting messages out to people.

1. Promoting
Your Content
10 TIPS FOR
@markwschaefer
without spamming people

2. For decades, marketers have been
conditioned to shout and broadcast.

3. It just seemed natural to turn to the
social channels to do the same thing.

4. But broadcasting your messages
to your audience isn’t helpful…

5. it’s SPAMMING.

6. Here are 10 practical tips for
promoting your content

7. Here are 10 practical tips for
promoting your content
(without crossing the spam line)

8. Look for
questions to
answer.
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9. There are thousands of people
asking questions online

10. Find questions you can answer
then add a link to one of your
helpful posts as a response.

11. Use social
channels.
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12. 20%
Complaining about
the government
30%
Watching
cat videos
48%
Playing
Farmville
2%
Interacting with
brand messages
This is how people spend their
time on social media.*
*Scientific survey I just made up

13. They don’t want to be sold to,
marketed to, or advertised to.

14. However…

15. If you’ve attracted a loyal audience who’s
interested in you and your business,

16. they may be interested in SOME of your
business-related comment.

17. they may be interested in SOME of your
business-related comment.
(Just don’t get too SPAMMY!)

18. Include content
links in your
Google profile.
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19. Your Google profile is your business card
for many people looking for you on the web.
Here’s proof!

20. That makes it the perfect container
for all of the content you create.

21. If you haven’t updated your profile
in a while, go check it out now.
(I’ll wait right here for you.)

22. Link to content
in other social
media profiles.
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23. On LinkedIn, insert media links (including
SlideShare presentations) in your profile.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwschaefer

24. https://www.facebook.com/mark.schaefer3
On Facebook, highlight your podcast, blog ,
and other content in your profile.

25. https://twitter.com/markwschaefer
On Twitter, share a link in your bio to
a promoted piece of content.

26. https://twitter.com/markwschaefer
And don’t forget pinned tweets!

27. Make the most
of unused
real estate.
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28. If you have several content properties
like I do, it can be a challenge to list
them all on the back of a business card.

29. Use bit.ly to create short links to all
of your content properties online.

30. But don’t just put those bit.ly links
on your business cards.

31. Here are some other places
you can use bit.ly links
to promote your content.
1 Email Signatures
1 Infographics
1 Presentations
1 Web Graphics
1 Books
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32. Ignite
snippets.
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33. Every piece of content you produce
should have a few short quotable
gems for people to share.

34. You can use a free tool like Click to Tweet to
promote specific quotes from your blog posts.

35. With presentations, embed shareable
quotes on your slides.

36. Every piece of content you
produce should have a few short
quotable gems for people to share.
— @markwschaefer
Try it! (Click on the quote below.)

37. Participate in
link roundups.
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38. Many bloggers curate their favorite
blog posts into daily, weekly, or
monthly link roundups.

39. Experiment with search keywords
to find relevant roundups.

40. Then contact the blogger with a link
to your post and why you think it’d
be a good fit for their roundup.

41. But use this technique judiciously to
avoid crossing the spam line.
(More help on that with my #10 tip)

42. Promote new
content within
old content.
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43. Here’s a little trick to introduce
new readers to your content.

44. Use a tool like Social Crawlytics to determine
your most shared content the last few years.

45. Chances are your best work is still
attracting new readers!

46. After you’ve identified the most
shared pages on your site, add links
to relevant keywords that point to
your new content.

47. Join a content
sharing club.
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48. There are a number of sites where you
can join other content creators and
support each other's efforts.

49. One popular site is Triberr, which is like a
blogging club where you can discover and
share content in a reciprocal fashion.

50. This works!

51. This works!
Triberr increases page views on my
blog by about 8 percent!

52. Write industry
bloggers a
personal note.
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53. Have a piece of great content you
want shared around the blogosphere?

54. Try writing industry bloggers
a personal note.

55. Follow these steps to email
industry influencers
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Find bloggers who have written
similar content.
Write them an email using a
personalized subject. Make sure
to get their name right!
Craft an email so that it doesn’t
sound like a form letter.
Compliment them on their work.
& suggest they might enjoy
yours.
Point out a specific connection
between their work and the
piece you’ve created.
Link to their work in your post
(that’s a big hook!).
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56. Follow these steps to email
industry influencers
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3
4
5
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Find bloggers who have written
similar content.
Write them an email using a
personalized subject. Make sure
to get their name right!
Craft an email so that it doesn’t
sound like a form letter.
Compliment them on their work.
& suggest they might enjoy
yours.
Point out a specific connection
between their work and the
piece you’ve created.
Link to their work in your post
(that’s a big hook!).
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(Just use this technique carefully — NO SPAMMING!)

57. Wow. That’s a lot to think about.

58. Let’s do a quick recap.

59. Promoting Your Content
10 TIPS FOR
without spamming people
1. Look for questions to answer.
2. Use social channels.
3. Include content links in your Google profile.
4. Link to content in other social media profiles.
5. Make the most of unused real estate.
6. Ignite snippets.
7. Participate in link roundups.
8. Promote new content within old content.
9. Join a content sharing club.
10. Write industry bloggers a personal note.

60. I hope you’re inspired to create and
promote great content online.

61. The good news is you don’t
have to do it alone!

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