Showing posts with label branding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label branding. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

7 Ways to Repurpose Your Content

Have you noticed how the "big names" keep presenting the same message over and over again? You can pretty much predict what they're going to say. The content varies slightly, but the theme remains the same.

They are "repurposing" their content - sometimes you'll see it in print; sometimes you'll hear it in an interview; or you may get it online via the web or newsletter.

There are dozens of ways to repurpose content. Here's a slide show I recently posted online, which reviews 7 of them.

The more ways you can get your message out there, the more quickly you will be branded as an expert in your field.

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Sunday, July 8, 2007

4 ways to get people to open your emails

When emailing someone you don't know, it's quite likely that your message will end up being deleted without being read.

Here are 4 tips to increase the chances that your recipients will open your emails:

  1. Use plain text, rather than HTML. Many email programs are set to assume that HTML messages from unknown sources are spam, and send them directly to the trash folder, so that your message doesn't even make it into the recipeient's inbox.

  2. Make your subject line short, but intriguing. For example, which of the following would you open first:

    News article

    News about beating procrastination

  3. Use your recipient's name in the subject line. When people see their own names, they pay attention. In either of the above examples, if you simply add the recipient's name, they will at least stop and notice. And if the subject line is interesting, they'll feel compelled to open the message.

  4. Make the most of the "From" field in your message. Open the setup screen of your email account, where it asks you to type your name as you want it to appear in the "From" field of your recipients' inbox. Instead of just your name, try changing it (temporarily or permanently) to something like: Joe Blow, ADHD Expert. This gives your message an added layer of authority.