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From experience, it's fking hard. But common sense does apply. I'm 100% in on content marketing for my business and after roughly 2 years of dabbling, experime
by tnolet 8y ago
From experience, it's fking hard. But common sense does apply.
I'm 100% in on content marketing for my business and after roughly 2 years of dabbling, experimenting and honing my skills I think I sort of get it.
For anyone starting out, all the common advice is true:
1. Create valuable, original content. This can be VERY specific to a VERY specific niche. People LOVE reading about how the sausage is made.
2. Go where your audience is. Took me a while to figure out.
For me that is specific sub reddits and HN. Twitter to a lesser degree.
3. Keep a schedule. Once a week, once a month. Whatever works for you.
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4. Get a tool / platform that removes obstacles. Probably why Medium got so popular. It makes writing and adding pictures really easy. No subliminal / subconscious blocks on writing that next post. I use Ghost now. Same experience, just private. The cost is trivial if this is your only marketing outlay.
- quickthrower2 8y agoI use plain markdown. I can create content anywhere - if I am on another machine I can just email myself the file and get it on the site later. To get it on the site, it's just add/commit/push in git with Netlify.
- capkutay 8y agoThis might be a stupid simple question, but where do you post your blogs once they're live? just share on linkedin or other social media? HN is obviously one destination but its a tough place to get large visibility.
- tnolet 8y agoI have a list, but this is somewhat optimised for technical people hackernews indiehackers twitter reddit linkedin stackshare