49 Tactics to Atomize Your Content Marketing
Last week, I spent an afternoon in Cleveland conducting a workshop on content atomization with my colleagues Brad Walters from Lowe’s and Jani Byrne from IBM.
Content atomization (a term first coined by Todd Defen from SHIFT Communications) as defined in our workshop means:
Content atomization = Taking a strong content marketing platform or theme, and executing it in many, strategically sound ways.
I have written about the need to atomize content many times, and I published a how-to guide that details how we atomize my Jay Today video series too.
3 Reasons Content Atomization Isn’t an Option
For anyone serious about content marketing, I believe some form of atomization is a requirement, for three reasons:
1. Atomization is resource efficient
It allows you to cover more ground with your content, with less effort than making brand-new content marketing executions every time.
2. Atomization helps win the relevancy wars
Executing your content theme in multiple platforms and in multiple ways gives you a better chance of producing content in a form that is hyper-relevant to a particular segment of your audience.
3. Atomization includes built-in amplification
By taking your big idea and spreading it in many, smaller ways you envelop your audience with the concept. It feels like you’re “everywhere” and creates an attention multiplier effect.
49 Ways to Atomize Your Content Marketing
For the workshop, we provided an exercise for content marketers to think through how to atomize their own content. You can download it below.
We also provided a list of all the places and ways you can atomize content marketing. How many of these have you tried?
Audio Tactics
1. Podcast
2. Soundcloud file
Blogging Tactics
3. Blog post on your blog
4. Guest blog post
5. Linkedin blog post
6. Medium post
7. Tumblr post
8. Quora post
9. Infographic
Community Tactics
10. Linkedin Group
11. Facebook Group
12. Forum/Discussion Board post
Long-form Content
13. eBook
14. Whitepaper
16. Case study
17. Testimonial/interview
18. Webinar
Messaging
19. Email
20. Event-triggered email (marketing automation)
21. SMS messages
Paid Tactics
22. Remarketed display ad
23. Pre-roll video
24. Sponsored tweet
25. Sponsored pin
26. Paid Facebook post (dark social)
27. Sponsored Instagram
28. Paid Linkedin status update
Social Content
29. Linkedin status update
30. Facebook post
31. Tweet
32. Twitter card
33. Instagram photo post
34. Pinterest pin or board
35. Snapchat story
36. Photo gallery
User-generated Content
37. Interactive quiz
38. Poll
39. UGC contest
Video
40. Youtube video
41. Facebook video
42. Instagram video
43. Twitter video
44. Video podcast
45. Pre-roll video
46. Periscope live video broadcast
47. Google Hangout On-Air
48. Video infographic
Download the entire list, plus grab the interactive content atomization worksheet here, from Slideshare:
About Jay Baer
Jay Baer is a renowned business strategist, keynote speaker and the New York Times best-selling author of four books who travels the world helping businesspeople get and keep more customers. He’s advised with more than700 companies since 1994, including Caterpillar, Nike, Allstate, and 31 of the FORTUNE 500.
He is the founder of Convince & Convert, a strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies gain and keep more customers through the smart intersection of technology, social media, and customer service.
His Convince & Convert Media division owns the world’s #1 contentmarketing blog, multiple podcasts, and many other education resources for business owners and executives.