Content Rules, CC Chapman
Content Rules, CC Chapman
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Content Rules
How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

Author: CC Chapman, Ann Hadley

Narrator: Ann Hadley, CC Chapman

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/27/2011


Synopsis

To market your business, reach new customers, and create long-lasting loyalty, you need one indispensable element: CONTENT.

Whether it’s bite-sized tweets that allow you to forge relationships on Twitter, blog posts that give your readers must-have advice, ebooks or white papers that engage (and don’t bore), videos that share the human side of your company, interactive webinars that deliver a valuable learning experience, or podcasts that can be downloaded and listened to on the fly (and more!) . . . now more than ever, content rules!

Today, you have an unprecedented opportunity to create a treasury of free, easy-to-use, almost infinitely customizable content that tells the story of your product and your business, and positions you as an expert people will want to do business with.

Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman, business writers, speakers, and marketing thought leaders for clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, HBO, and Verizon FiOS, show you how to leverage all of today’s tools to create content that truly speaks to your audience. They’ll show you how to:

•Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy
•Explore ways to integrate searchable words into your content without sounding forced (or sounding like “Frankenspeak”)
•Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums
•Create a publishing schedule that allows you to create different kinds and types of content at once

Offering examples of businesses using content effectively across a wide range of industries and fascinating explanations of how you might approach your own content strategy, Content Rules is the essential field guide to creating your story, finding the right balance of humor and humanity in your content, and building a portfolio of value that will keep delivering for the long haul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on February 14, 2012

I gave this book three stars because it has useful information in it about managing a content-based marketing effort, but it fell somewhat short on depth. By the end of the book, I had the feeling it could have been about seventy pages shorter, as the authors were down to repeating ideas over and ov......more

Goodreads review by Anabelle on August 30, 2011

As a web content writer, I can’t pass up a book that promises to help produce killer content for the Web. Thanks to my Kindle, I was able to buy the book and start reading it within seconds. Even though it took me a while to finish it (moving oblige), I’m really glad I did. I loved one of the foundat......more

Goodreads review by Gradon on February 05, 2011

The best, most concrete book on social media tactics I've read yet.......more

Goodreads review by VisforVillains on February 26, 2013

Very basic. Definitely fine for someone who is delving into social media for the first time. I think it lost me as soon as it brought in drawings of robots doing various things. I understand that this was supposed to help you remember key ideas, but I found myself irritated by them. And then they we......more

Goodreads review by David H Deans on December 25, 2020

The forward of this book states that "Marketing is about creating great content" - but that the art and science of producing that superior material has been a mystery to many. David Meerman Scott, the author of the book's forward section, suggests that the answer to the question "what exactly, shoul......more