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1. 5 Different Content Types
That Will Make Your Blog
Stand Out
(And How To Make Them)
You've heard you can stand out by creating
quality content. Yeah, yeah. But who's helped you
understand what that means? Here are 5 unique
ways to create awesome content that will help
your blog stand out from the rest.
1 Infographics
Even if you don't feel comfortable creating your own
infographic, embed other folks' graphics on your blog to
prove a point (just give those folks credit).
Make your own Infographics using tools like Canva, infogr.am, and Piktochart.
Embed other folks' infographics into your posts to prove your points (just give
them credit).
Find ideas from Pinterest and Alltop Infographics.
2 Videos
Video is extremely popular with more than 864,000 hours
uploaded to the Internet every day. Use it to prove your
points, give tutorials, and create super shareable content.
Do it yourself using your phone and free tools like VideoHance, Hyperlapse,
and Stop Motion.
Capture a raw video of your screen and you speaking from your computer
using ScreenFlow.
Produce a professional video with an agency.
3 News Industry
Look for breaking news and other updates that no one is really
talking about...yet. The sooner you can share the news, the more
likely your audience will appreciate it. And you will get a lot
more social shares, too!
Subscribe to get news fast from your favorite sources like Alltop,
The Next Web, and others.
Get info from your favorite blogs and news services through RSS
readers like Feedly.
Create the post quickly yet robustly, citing where you learned about
the news.
4 Round Ups
Curate the best content from your industry to become the
go-to-source for all information.
Keep track of the best blogs in your niche using RSS readers like Feedly.
Choose the posts that offer a totally new perspective.
Summarize the big ideas from the posts to prove your content is worth
reading and subscribing to.
5 Book Reviews
Read the entire book (it's lame to give advice without all the facts).
Summarize what the book is about, the big ideas, and why reading the whole
thing would benefit your readers.
Write a post about how you implemented what you learned from the book
and your results.
Help your audience learn the main points
from the awesome books you've read.
That gives them a reason to check back in
with you as a go-to source for awesome
summaries and recommendations.
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