Creating Content Flashcards
What are the 3 main types of engaging content?
- Educational
- Inspirational
- Entertaining
Post Content Ideas (17):
- Share content from your website
- Create a behind the scene video
- Showcase employees or members of my audience
- Promote upcoming events
- Create content around holidays or events
- Make a Tutorial video
- Engage your audience by asking a question (& responding to their questions, AMA). Ask for guesses.
- Have a giveaway or a Contest.
- Contribute to a hashtag challenge. #tbt look into your past business startup times. Find trending hashtags and contribute.
- Post inspirational quotes
- Go LIVE
- Showcase a new product
- Share industry infographics that are interesting or relevant to your industry.
- Share testimonials to show the reliability
- Work with influencer or have someone do a takeover of your account.
- HUMOR: Banter with other famous people.
- Share Curated Content from other thought leaders, helps me be seen as a source of information in my industry.
- User-Generated Content: Shows everyday use of my brand, share the view of my brand from my customers/users.
- Repurpose Content: Re-share content that is still relevant or shake it up into a Top Ten List.
- Cause or Charity - people like a purpose
- Thank your audience.
- Sell something!
BE AWARE OF TRENDS & JOIN/PARTICIPATE IN TRENDING CONVERSATIONS.
Why You Should Share CURATED Content:
- Shows you’re in the conversation
- Positions you as an authority if you share value
- Facilitates partnerships bc you are showing others in the industry that you’re there! (like meme Instagrams tagging each other)
- Takes the pressure off creating all new content (although still takes some time)
How to curate:
- Set up Google Alerts
- Use curation app like Feedly
- Or Pocket
Steps of Creating a Storyboard (2).
- Decide on engagement goals (educate, sell, get people to our website, etc.)
- Decide what story we are going to tell.
- Add stickers and hashtags
- Put CTA and link in last panel.
How I can see myself using Storyboading to plan Instagram videos (7)
- visual birds-eye-view so I can make sure it’s not going to look repetitive
- brainstorm solutions before getting into the lights/camera/action mode
- reduce editing frustration
- enhance visual, emotional, and sales impact to get audiences to watch thru to ending CTA because people will remember the KEY ELEMENTS.
- Add stickers throughout
- Add hashtags throughout.
- Draft CTA language and include LINK for last panel.
Official Benefits of Storyboading:
- Brainstorm (flesh out your idea)
- Visualize
- Create great content (time spent on storyboarding will result in better, more eye-catching content)
* 4. Remember key elements !!!!!!!!!! - Collaboration
- Templating (now you won’t have to reinvent the wheel every time)
What makes Content go VIRAL (6):
- Create “Social Currency” content
- Use a sensory “trigger”
- Evoke emotion
- Make your brand as public as possible
- Make your content practical
- Tell a story
Based on the book “Contagious” by Jonah Berger
1 Create “Social Currency” Content:
Ads/posts that increase people’s “social currency” when they share it because it makes them look good.
ex: Wearing Tom’s shoes shows that you care about others.
2 Use a sensory “trigger”:
A trigger makes people immediately think of your product when they see/hear/smell that trigger.
ex: “Just Do It” = thinking of Nike.
3 Evoking strong emotion:
Johnny Walker ad that ends up the brother was dead and the guy was spreading ashes. Evokes emotion with a story.
4 Make the brand as public as possible:
Create a brand logo and coloration that maximizes your publicity by being easily recognizable across mediums.
Ex: Adidas three stripes, easy to recognize and easy to reproduce across mediums (shoe, pants, sticker, etc. = it all reads as Adidas)
5 Make Your Content Practical:
People like to share content that is practical or useful. They will share it a lot.
6 Tell a story:
People love stories. Ads that tell stories are likely to be shared. Invite people to share their own stories.
Ex: Dove Real Beauty Campaign, collection of stories of women sharing what made them feel beautiful + invited people to tell their own stories of what made them feel beautiful.
Benefits of having a Content Calendar (5):
1: Organization: sure to make the necessary posts/links to achieve goals.
2: Consistency in brand voice bc of batching
3: Plan for Events & Holidays
4: Fill in the Gaps (helps you see what you need)
5: Collaboration across the team