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Embedding Social Media Buttons, Made Easy

Readers, meet the The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Creating Social Media Buttons. This is a relatively old guide from The Hubspot team, but it’s just so useful. Trying to embed things on your site can be a pain, but it’s worth it. There’s little use in creating content if the consequential process of sharing is not there! “We’ve… 

January 27, 2012 · Lexi Lewtan

Content Marketing Boot Camp: Everything You Wanted To Know In One Post

An offline marketing expert recently asked me for a crash course in content marketing through social media. She’d built a powerful personal brand over the years and wanted to take her analog educational resources and research and leverage them online. The answers to her question, “What is this content marketing business, and how do I get started?” are… 

January 19, 2012 · Shane Snow

Toolbox: Hook Internet Wanderers With These Five Critical Steps

Editor’s note: We’re trying something new with our Friday roundups. Instead of links to the week’s top news, we’ll be posting what we call Toolboxes – a handful of resources on a theme – every week. Check out our Tumblr feed for ongoing industry news curation, every day of the week. This week, we break down… 

December 9, 2011 · Lexi Lewtan

Five Experimental Content Marketing Platforms You Need To Be Using

Hey Everyone! So here at The Content Strategist, our goal is to offer easy and effective ways to reach your fans. Lately, we’ve found that many digitally savvy customers are using of experimental platforms to explore the internet. These platforms offer great ways for you to  uniquely interact and share content – but they all… 

December 2, 2011 · Lexi Lewtan

Media Diets: Decoded – Helpful Tricks To Steal From Industry Leaders

How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? This is the burning question behind The Atlantic’s Media Diets — first person looks into the content consumption of writers, media industry veterans, and thought leaders of note. Some are straight-edged New York Times addicts,… 

November 29, 2011 · Lexi Lewtan

10 Tools For Converting Your Blog’s New Visitors Into Fans

Increasing traffic to your blog isn’t the “cure all” some people make it out to be. Without a solid strategy, you might attract users – but not be able to keep them coming back. But as long as you’re clear-eyed about what traffic-building efforts can and cannot accomplish, there is a lot gained by getting… 

November 29, 2011 · Gregory Peterson

Do You Understand The Difference Between Content Marketing and Content Strategy?

On the Content Strategist, we focus on two fancy buzzwords – Content Marketing and Content Strategy. But as we hand out tools, case studies and other goodies, we’ve noticed that a lot of people use them interchangeably, when in fact they mean different things.  Here’s a quick and easy explanation of the two buzz terms,… 

November 2, 2011 · Lexi Lewtan