Social media provides content creators with a powerful tool for sharing their content with thousands of people simultaneously by simply clicking the “Post” button. However, to get the most out of these channels, you’ll need to have a solid strategy. And since every social media platform is different, each requires a different approach for promoting your publications.
To help you navigate the fast-changing world of social media, we’ve created a special tutorial for digital content creators: our Guide to Social Strategy. Inside, you’ll find the numbers, insights and tips that matter. Take a look!
In this tutorial, you’ll learn all the essentials about five key social media platforms and answer valuable questions, including:
Should I still promote content with Facebook?
What kind of publications should I share on LinkedIn?
Why should I consider a video strategy on YouTube?
Who can I reach by posting content to Pinterest?
How should Twitter fit into my social strategy?
Explore the strengths and weaknesses that each of these platforms offers for promoting your digital publications with our full Guide to Social Strategy. Plus, we’ve picked out the most useful statistics to review engagement rates, audience details and more at a glance.
Want more guidance from Calaméo to achieve your goals? Consult our tutorials to learn how to embed your publications and create a personalized Theme. Or visit our Help Center for support in English, German, Italian, Spanish and French.
An essential asset of digital publishing is the ability to offer your audience exclusive content. While private publications can help you keep internal documents confidential, they can also help you create a stronger relationship with your readers, clients and future customers.
In this article, learn about the benefits of exclusive content and tips for your publishing strategy on Calaméo.
BUILD YOUR BRAND
Certainly, your digital publications are a powerful tool for informing your audience. But don’t underestimate their power to enhance your brand, too. Limiting the availability of your content can concentrate the link with your brand. For instance, you may wish to keep your publications on Calaméo private. But you can still make them easy to browse on your own website with our embed feature for private publications.
In addition to convenient embeds, you can also take advantage of opportunities to enhance your exclusive content with interactive content and custom branding. As a result, your digital publications will be 100% you.
In recent years, focusing on subscriptions has been a strong trend in digital publishing and exclusivity is a key factor. By offering content that only subscribers can access, you can tempt casual readers to sign up, establish contacts and encourage your audience to keep returning.
The flexible Subscribers feature provides a built-in solution for publishing subscribers-only content on Calaméo. First, secure exclusive publications behind a log-in window. Next, assign each subscriber a unique user name and password to use for access. In short, the first step to creating a great subscriber experience is exclusive content.
SUPPORT SALES
Personalization is already the next big thing in digital marketing. Recent studies have shown that when used well, it can help boost sales online. In fact, more than two-thirds of customers expect a personalized experience.
Those numbers are just one reason why you might want to consider tailoring your sales material to individual clients. Take a little time to customize your brochures, presentations and proposals. Then, publish on Calaméo and share with your prospects via private URL.
💡TIP: To generate a new private URL for your publication, open the share window and click on “Renew private URL.”
REWARD LOYALTY
Because everyone loves perks. And your audience is no exception! Investing in some exclusive, privately published bonus content will surprise and delight your most dedicated followers. For example, you might offer an extra magazine issue, sneak peek at upcoming events or flyer with special deals. Publishing on Calaméo ensures that your bonus content looks great in a fun format. Plus, direct downloads let fans enjoy it even offline.
No matter how you choose to publish exclusive content, measuring its performance should be part of your strategy. Calaméo’s advanced statistics contain valuable data to help you analyze the success of your private publications. For more details on where to start, check out our quick guide to digital publishing KPIs.
On Calaméo, you can publish and share up to 50 private publications—absolutely free. Get your free account and start creating exclusive content today.
In the world of strategic marketing, we use a lot of technical terms, and sometimes it’s hard to get your head around them when you’re just starting out. So what is “evergreen” content? And why is it important to create this type of content as part of your digital strategy?
What is evergreen content?
Evergreen content is a type of content that is not dependent on current events and remains relevant over time: it is timeless. The audience will always be able to find information in it that is interesting, regardless of whether they view it when it comes out, or 5 years later.
Why should you create evergreen content?
Evergreen content is a real tool for your brand, your marketing strategy and your digital strategy. It brings many benefits, and should be the foundation of your content marketing strategy.
Here are the major benefits of evergreen content in your strategy:
Assert your expertise: offering high value-added and timeless content will allow you to have an expert image with your customers and prospects.
Improve your SEO: your cold content is more efficient to improve your SEO, because it will still attract readers, even after months of online publishing, and is generally more qualitative and longer than hot content.
Optimize content creation: on the one hand, you will need less time to make sure your content is updated, and on the other hand it will also allow you to recycle it several times and in various formats.
Attract a qualified audience: your cold content will ensure you a qualified audience, because it is typically informative content, with high added value and which gives confidence in your brand.
As you can see, these are very important benefits. You should definitely include evergreen content in your content marketing strategy to optimize it.
Examples of evergreen content for your brand
Since it is now clear that evergreen content is very important for your brand, here are some examples of content to create:
FAQs: answer the questions most frequently asked by your customers and prospects.
Tutorials: explain how to use your product.
White papers: show your expertise on a specific topic.
Case studies: demonstrate the usefulness of your product from your customers’ perspective
Infographics: Put useful information in an easily shareable and saveable format.
“How-to” blog posts: Inform your audience about best practices and key topics in your industry.
You can adapt this list as you wish: make tutorials in the form of videos or guides, for example. Offer a live Q&A and repost the replay so it’s always available. And much more! Just make sure your content is useful and will remain timeless by sticking to your brand and its identity as much as possible.
In conclusion, it’s important for your brand to create evergreen content, whether it’s to fortify your brand image, establish your expertise or improve your SEO.
However, content discussing hot topics should not be totally eliminated from your content marketing strategy. Company news, such as the arrival of a new product on the market, or the organization of an event, is an opportunity to create content that helps connect your audience to your brand.
In this idea, Calameo is your best asset for the online publishing, distribution and statistical follow-up of all your contents. Test the extent of our professional and innovative digital publishing offer now with our 15-day free trial. Request your free trial of Calaméo PLATINUM by clicking here.
