Brands, nowadays, need to start looking beyond themselves in order for them to integrate their company and content to the lives of their stakeholders. They need to widen their content scope to complement their original content and become recognized more than just as a producer of product X. This can be done through online content curation.

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FOR BRANDS’ WEBSITE
TIPS
SUCCESS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARE YOU AN ONLINE CURATOR? p.7
FOCUS ON LOCAL BUSINESS p.10
WHEN WEBSITE BUILDING
BRANDS AS CURATORS p.3
CONCLUSION p.12

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BRANDS AS CURATORS
Brands once had a proud attitude when it came to marketing. It
had been about me, me, me: what my product can do, why my
product is better than others, why it’s so expensive, etc. etc.
Due to the internet, people are now exposed to, so much infor-
mation that it has become overwhelming to many. When a brand
wants to stick out and get all the attention to “me, me, me”, there
are about a thousand more offering a similar product; vying for
that person’s attention as well.
So what happens?
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The consumer will look for the cheapest, most accessible, most
nostalgic or most recommended product that they will find, and
all the other brands are lost in the information trash bin for the
time being.

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Brands, nowadays, need to start looking beyond themselves in
order for them to integrate their company and content to the lives
of their stakeholders. They need to widen their content scope to
complement their original content and become recognized more
than just as a producer of product X. This can be done through
online content curation.
The consumer will look for the cheapest, most accessible, most
nostalgic or most recommended product that they will find, and
all the other brands are lost in the information trash bin for the
time being.
Brands, nowadays, need to start looking beyond themselves in
order for them to integrate their company and content to the lives
of their stakeholders. They need to widen their content scope to
complement their original content and become recognized more
than just as a producer of product X. This can be done through
online content curation.
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Content curation is the process of sorting through information
available online and translating it into a meaningful and orga-
nized way covering a specific topic or theme. In simpler terms,
curation is gathering and presenting content that is important to
a brand’s stakeholders.
There are many advantages for a brand to handle its online cu-
ration:

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• It is cost effective: since it takes longer to create content
from scratch.
• It is a more “human” way for brands to organize web content
about them: because nothing beats human interpretation.
• Online curation is the best form of social (media) giving:
because the online community appreciates content shared,
without an agenda.
What is needed to be an online curator?
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Creativity and a keen eye would be the most necessary skill for
online curators. Creativity because curators need to be able to
translate certain jargon that may not be understood by the tar-
get audience and a keen eye since there is so much information
available and only some of it may actually matter.

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It is also important to remember the three S’s of online curation:
Seek, Sense and Share.
SEEK: curators need to be able to define a topic clearly and cap-
ture relevant information in relation to the topic
SENSE: products must be annotated, and should add value to
the work.
SHARE: site sources, comment, add reviews & testimonials, and
distribute to the target audience.
Seems pretty easy? It actually is and almost anyone can be an
online curator. That is why now is the chance of your brand to
manage its own content online.
Know more about online curation by contacting Viiworks via
Viiworks’ contact form or by calling us at +63 02 846 8844.

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ARE YOU AN ONLINE CURATOR?
Whenever we hear the word CURATOR the things that come
to mind are museums, paintings, sculptures and those snobby
guides telling us about brush strokes, post modernism and hy-
perrealism. These days, however, almost anyone can be a cura-
tor (or already is! Maybe they just didn’t know it yet), because of
the web.
Online curation involves the ingestion, analysis and contextu-
alization of web content and information of a particular nature
into a format that anyone can understand. Put simply, an online
curator is like an archaeologist who looks for rare relics and
lost treasure and shares the perceived value (content) of these
items with the public (“online audience”).
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Nowadays, since 571 new websites are created every minute,
tweet 175 million times each day and upload 48 hours of new
video every minute, a curator will constantly have to skim through
all the data.
Through different online media like Facebook, Pinterest or Tum-
blr, everyone is given the opportunity to be an online curator or to
follow users who are, since these platforms are about repinning,
reposting or reblogging content from other people (curation) as
much as sharing thoughts and ideas with other people (creation).
Curation can also be done through other means like construct-
ing a “Top 10 list of things to give this Christmas”; based on
other information found on the web. There are also others who
follow a more scientific approach through data curation; provid-
ing precise information to industries like marketing, graphic de-
sign and even politics for their own consumption. There are also
consumer curators who browse products online and categorize
them based on how they see fit, like “What to pack for my trip
to the Bahamas” or “Best food for a flatter stomach”. This is to
guide specific target audiences in their purchases.
But online curation does not merely mean copy- pasting a tweet
or a post or re-uploading a video.
This all requires much patience, creativity and keen editing eyes,
at the same time the ability to translate one type of jargon to an
entirely different crowd. This also means that to be a curator,
you cannot just copy-paste information. You also need to identify
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your audience conveyed in a more understandable language.
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Brands can use online curation as means to identify themselves
more properly in terms of market preferences to garner a more
personal relationship.
So are you an online curator? Maybe or you’re probably on your
way to becoming one (that’s probably the reason you are reading
this). To know more about online curation and business opportu-
nities you can get from it, contact Viiworks via Viiworks’ contact
form or by calling at +63 02 846 8844 for inquiries.

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FOCUS ON LOCAL BUSINESS
WHEN WEBSITE BUILDING
When people build a website to set up an online store, they of-
ten intend to go global. They want to finally be able to advertise
their services and products to markets in other countries. It also
means they could make a sale at given time since the e-com-
merce website can always be accessed round the clock. With
so much emphasis on globalization, buyers and sellers both risk
ignoring their local market and miss out on what they can poten-
tially offer.
Start Fresh When Developing a Website
When designing your website for your business, make sure that
your address is displayed on all of the pages. If the address is
too long, include your city, state, country, postal code, and tele-
phone number. It is crucial for search engines to know where you
are coming from so that your potential customers will be more
comfortable doing business with you.

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What is Its Significance to You?
Imagine this scenario: you sell electronic devices through your
online store, and it is thriving. When you hired that web design
specialist, he was able to secure your page at the top of search
results. You have high Web traffic because of potential buyers
from other countries, but you have no local visitors who could
buy your products with less hassle and would be responsible for
most of your sales.
What you really want is to convert web traffic into actual sales.
Promoting your address on your site and making certain that
search engines can trace your location will help encourage local
prospective clients to support your enterprise instead of com-
panies that are based elsewhere. Since local customers know
where to find you, they may even visit your office in person to
conduct marketing and business transactions. This helps you
build rapport.
The benefit of this is that your online reputation will improve, and
your business will become popular in your neighborhood, where it
really counts. There will be a time when your Internet traffic will
be mostly endorsed by testimonials posted by your local market.

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CONCLUSION
Website creation is NOT the only way for online success. It is
only a gateway for online presence. Much of the success will
come from regular integration of content a website’s traffic will
appreciate.
Content curation is one way to make web users appreciate your
expertise and knowledge on the subject.
Also, it is important to know where are the right places to share
your content, the right time to share, and the technicalities in-
volved to make search engines find your content.
It may sound like a lot of work involved, but with the proper man-
agement, the process will be flowing and you will be content
producting and curating in no time at all.
For more information on content and curation management, don’t
hesitate to contact us.
CONTACT US TO LEARN MORE

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Published in April, 2014
By VIIWORKS
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