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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content
Your precious words. You know they’ve got to be right to attract the audience you want. You’ve carefully crafted each...
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Monday, July 29, 2019
3 Fundamental Editorial Standards for Any Serious Publication
I’m a “go big or go home” kind of gal, and when it comes to content marketing today that translates...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Real-World Advice for Rocking Your Career as a Freelance Writer
The life of a freelance writer is always intense. (That line cheerfully ripped off and mangled from the ’80s cult...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Boost the Relevance of Your Content with Benefits and Features
One cool thing about being a content marketer is that you tend to become an expert in your topic. You...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
How to Explain Your Job as a Copywriter (and Feel Good about It)
Well, this isn’t going to be easy … I’ve been working as a copywriter for 40 years now and still...
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Slideshare Content Creation and Marketing Checklist
Want to make it on Sideshare? You should, it is one of the most under-praised yet powerful tools out there right now. Since LinkedIn stepped up and took it under their wing, it has even more social clout. Professionals that want to connect with other industry powerhouses should be jumping on board, stat.
The problem is that not many users know how to make it really work for them. Which is fitting, given how few understand how to use LinkedIn, either. It was a match made in heaven.
Luckily, it isn’t rocket science. You can learn to use Slideshare correctly through experience, trial and error. But to get you started, try this helpful checklist for both content creation and marketing your presentations on the platform.
Before You Get Started
- Know your audience. Who is it you are trying to connect with, exactly? Are these high ranking CEO’s in massive corporations? Peers in your industry? Potential employers? Potential customers? Because it is a versatile platform, it will have a versatile group of users. Target the right demographic for your needs.
- Ask what you have to offer. This is not a blog. You can’t recycle the same tired advice and have it take off because you gave it a snazzy name. You are among two major groups: experts and wannabe experts. So to be seen as valuable there you will have to give them something both high quality, and that they haven’t seen before (at least in the way you present it).
- Outline: Make sure you have a clear idea of what you are going to say in the Slideshare (I usually re-purpose the subheadings from my article to make the outline). Otherwise, you’ll waste lots of time moving the slides around.
- Decide on your slide number. This is important, because it is easy to get carried away when you go into creating a Slideshare presentation without some kind of guideline beforehand. Take a look at other popular presentations to see how many slides they average.
- Decide on the tools to create eye-catching slides. This used to be a big problem: Designing slides to make them memorable and eye-catching used to be a pain. These days we have a few tools that make our job much easier. Placeit is one of the newest Slideshow makers out there providing cool templates including those for social media and beyond.
Your Content
- KISS. The real challenge of creating a Slideshare presentation is cutting down your information into the simplest possible format, with the fewest possible words. You don’t want more than a sentence or two, or a small bullet point of information. You have to deliver all info in a rapid fire way. If it takes more than a couple seconds to get through a slide, it is too complicated.
- Design (Know your tools!) Most important thing: Make sure your slides are readable when they are zoomed out (that’s how many people will watch it through Slideshare). Having visuals, readable font and colors are great ways to make it more eye catching. Don’t clutter! Too many elements will quickly overpower the content itself, and work against you. Try to keep it clean and attractive, and make sure everything is relevant. If in doubt, stay away from images for anything but a cover background. Your viewer’s will thank you for not having yet another eyesore presentation for them to tolerate in order to get to your information. Here are great tools to create the presentation. Optimize!
- Use an essay format. A quick way to get your point across is to use an essay format for the slides. For example, you would start with a cover image with the title, then the next slide would tell them the points you will be making. Then each slide after explains each point. The final presentation slide will give your conclusion and tie it up nicely so there are no loose ends. The last slide will be your CTA, which we will discuss in the marketing portion of this post.
- Ask for feedback. Sometimes we can get blind to problems in our content because we have put so much heart into it. That is why third party feedback is so crucial. Ask a couple of people you know and trust what they think. Pick them for having different strengths; one for aesthetics, such as a designer; one from your industry to check over your information; one with no industry experience to see if the language and explanations are clear enough for a layman to understand. Don’t take criticism personally, but instead use it to inform any useful changes that could improve your content.
- Don’t forget the basic SEO. Like with any other content, search engine optimization is important if you want your upload to keep attracting organic leads. Use Text Optimizer to extract related concepts from Google search results and find which of those should be covered in your presentations as well as Slideshare upload description.
Marketing Your Presentations
- Direct people to other content. This is one of the single most things you can do in a Slideshare: redirect. Create links that open in new tabs and go to either other Slideshare posts, or other relevant content you think the viewer might benefit from/enjoy. Don’t overdo it, instead providing one to three. This one action can vastly improve your traffic and visibility.
- Create a CTA slide. As mentioned before, a CTA slide is an important inclusion to your presentation. It does not have to be counted as part of your slide count. Decide where you want to direct conversions: communication and engagement? Social media? Your website? Product pages? Your Slideshare profile? Don’t overcrowd the slide, but provide a few conversion efforts there, so you can make the most of your content.
- Embed your Slideshare presentations. This is a no-brainer. Your blog is a great place to embed Slideshare posts, as are guest posts from sites that don’t mind the redirect. Make sure you are promoting anywhere you can.
- Keep an eye on your analytics! Slideshare provides a limited but still useful analytics for free: So keep an eye on your best performing content and let your success guide you!
See? It isn’t difficult. Just follow the checklist above and before you know it you will have an awesome campaign running based around Slideshare content. It is one of the best ways you can use visual and rapid fire data to promote yourself and your brand. Not to mention a platform that isn’t as crowded as Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook.
Have any tips to add to the checklist? We would love to hear them, so share them in the comments below!
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30 Sure-Fire Steps to Become a Successful Freelance Writer
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
How to Gain Audience Trust by … Actually Being Trustworthy
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The 7 Keys to List Posts that Are Worth Writing (and Reading)
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
4 Responsible Ways to Communicate Data
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Monday, July 15, 2019
3 Content Marketing Don’ts from a Grocery Store Solicitor
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
17 Perceptive Ways to Persuade with Modern Copywriting
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
How to Win Over New Kinds of Readers
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019
8 Calls to Action that Initiate New Relationships with Customers and Collaborators
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Monday, July 8, 2019
The 5 Types of Online Prospects, and How to Sell to Each of Them
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Thursday, July 4, 2019
Cultivate Your Independence with Smart Strategy and Thoughtful Action
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
3 Tips for Creating Your Own Independence Day
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Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Does Your Copy Pass the ‘Forehead Slap’ Test?
One of the most repeated rules of writing compelling copy is to stress benefits, not features. In other words, identify...
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Monday, July 1, 2019
A Simple, Two-Month Plan to Complete a Content Project
At the end of June 2009, I was reading Copyblogger and I got a new idea: I should write an...
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