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123 LinkedIn marketing for thought leaders with Lucy Bingle

Lucy Bingle has 20 years marketing experience and is a LinkedIn marketing expert. She is passionate about helping companies succeed in amplifying their brand, reaching their target audience and growing their business. In this interview with Trevor Young, Lucy walks us through what's required to succeed in using

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Give your content the edge: Over-index on humanity!

When it comes to creating content for your brand, one of my favourite tips I give over and over again is ... OVER-INDEX ON HUMANITY. This can manifest itself in numerous ways. For example: 1. Stories Tell genuine stories. It could be your story on how you've got to

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121 The importance of having a strong voice with Anne Miles

Business coach and marketing consultant, Anne Miles, is a big believer in taking a stance on issues that affect the industry in which she operates. Anne is the founder of International Creative Services, an Australian production house for marketing and advertising. She regularly publishes thought-provoking articles on a range of

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120 Owning a space that is yours with Mark Masters, You Are The Media

Mark Masters owns a UK-based content marketing agency, has published a book, produces a podcast, delivers a popular weekly e-newsletter, speaks at major industry conferences, runs regular networking and educational events, and now has a content marketing conference to his name featuring key players from the global content marketing scene.

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119 Building global influence with Adam Jacoby, Founder of MiVote

Several years back Adam Jacoby called upon his considerable experience as a seasoned entrepreneur to kick-start the democratic movement that is MiVote. As founder and chief steward of MiVote, Adam is responsible for spearheading positive word-of-mouth for the movement and articulating the concept via social media, traditional media and the

Content marketing

How content marketing for PR can build public influence

The Cambridge dictionary defines ‘influence’ as the power to have an effect on people. Let’s face it, we’re all trying to influence an outcome of sorts. Businesses want to influence buyer behaviour either directly or indirectly, with the ultimate goal of selling more products and services. Cause-based nonprofits

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How to tap into the power of social reporting for your business

We are loving the concept of ‘social reporting’ here at Digital Citizen. Social reporting is where a brand engages someone to create content in real-time, that tells their brand story in different and interesting ways. For example, they might: * live-stream from a company event, * tweet a public announcement by the

Thought leadership

IT'S BACK! Reputation Revolution podcast has been relaunched

I've relaunched my podcast REPUTATION REVOLUTION. Reputation Revolution explores how motivated individuals can strategically build visibility, influence and trust in today's reputation economy. It's aimed squarely at professional experts and aspiring thought leaders - those who want to stand up, stand out and make

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118 Podcast relaunch with Trevor Young aka 'The PR Warrior'

'The PR Warrior' Trevor Young is back with the first new episode in * cough, cough * two years! In this brief episode, Trevor explains why he took a 'gap year' from the podcast, and updates us on what to expect in coming episodes, including details of the

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More Australian businesses than ever have a presence on social media (but they could be a lot more social!)

The proportion of Australian businesses with a social media presence has reached the highest levels recorded, according to new research. The 2018 Yellow Social Media Report (Business), released today, is an annual survey of how Australian consumers and businesses use social media. According to the report, more than half of

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The 'Facebookisation' of LinkedIn continues ... are you taking advantage of the opportunity?

If you haven't checked out LinkedIn in a while, I urge you to take a closer look. Years ago, LinkedIn used to be a pretty stiff and conservative network. I was going to write 'social' network, but it was anything but social. It seemed to me

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The power of owned media (and why you should be taking content-first communications seriously)

The ‘owned media’ opportunity is real, but are you truly taking advantage of it? The ubiquity of social and publishing technologies means that any business, government agency, nonprofit organisation or individual can in effect become their own media channel by producing meaningful content that resonates with a desired target audience

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How to turn an event into several months' worth of content for your business

It's great to blog, create podcasts and publish videos to YouTube. But don't forget the power of 'old school' physical (versus virtual) content, for example, branded informational events such as workshops, seminars and breakfast get-togethers or after-work meet-ups that feature an expert guest speaker.

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The importance of developing a culture of content in your organisation

For an organisation to effectively become its own media channel, it's important to (over time) start developing a culture of content internally. Creating content should not just be the responsibility of one team - everyone should have the chance to contribute ideas for stories that help build and

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Are you a corporate chest-beater?

One of the key tenets of content marketing is to put your audience first and create content that's of interest and relevance to them. This is well-established best practice that has been reinforced time and time again by genuine experts the world over. There is no shortage of

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Understanding the broader ‘content universe’ (and how to make it work for your brand)

When it comes to content marketing for PR, there’s a lot you can do. Hence the importance of having a strategy. But let’s put that aside for the moment. Let’s assume you’ve thought about your goals and your audience and the challenges, pain-points and informational gaps

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What shaving my head can teach you about content marketing for personal branding purposes

Once upon a time I had hair. Lots of it! But then ... not so much. It took a little while for me to get to the completely 'chrome dome' stage, although looking around, I daresay I bit the bullet way, way quicker than many guys out there! But

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What shaving my head can teach you about content marketing for personal branding purposes

Once upon a time I had hair. Lots of it! But then ... not so much. It took a little while for me to get to the completely 'chrome dome' stage, although looking around, I daresay I bit the bullet way, way quicker than many guys out there! But

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How to leverage the power of content to strategically build visibility for your business or personal brand

The content you publish, distribute and amplify can have a huge impact on the degree of visibility your brand has in the marketplace or community in which you operate. But you need to be strategic about it. For inspiration, check out Lee Odden and the crew from Top Rank Marketing,

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Taking a multidimensional approach to content marketing for PR

The ability today for companies and organisations of any size to publish their own content, in effect becoming their own media channels, is such a powerful proposition, it never ceases to blow me away. Unfortunately though, precious few marketers, PR pros and business owners are taking full advantage of the

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Keynote presentation: How to build trust and reputation through content marketing

We live in exciting times! Every business today has the opportunity to become its own media channel, to leverage the power of their online publishing platforms to create and distribute meaningful content that provides value for their audience, and in turn helps build brand visibility, credibility, influence and trust. Best-selling

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Keynote presentation: How to build trust and reputation through content marketing

We live in exciting times! Every business today has the opportunity to become its own media channel, to leverage the power of their online publishing platforms to create and distribute meaningful content that provides value for their audience, and in turn helps build brand visibility, credibility, influence and trust. Best-selling

Brand & Reputation

How to build trust as a competitive advantage for your business

As professional communicators, we are acutely aware of the importance of trust in building reputation and enhancing purchase consideration, or whatever ‘commercial’ outcome you’re seeking to achieve, whether it be donations for a nonprofit, changing people’s behaviour for a government agency, or gaining positive word-of-mouth (and votes) if

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Content Marketing for PR: Growing an audience through podcasting

Audio is the unsung hero of content marketing and provides businesses and organisations with significant opportunities to reach and communicate with their desired audience groups. While the bulk of audio currently is long-form episodic podcasts people can access via their device of choice whenever and wherever they wish, there are