Visual Contenting April 2016 | Page 48

EXPERT TIPS FOR CREATING ADDICTIVE CON 06 MICHAEL KESHEN Content Marketer at Hover @MichaelKeshen Michael Keshen’s blog posts for Hover are characteristically free of any “fluff,” getting straight to the point with at least one actionable how-to point for readers to take away. He writes multiple posts that cover one general topic, such as domain name buying, and approaches that topic from different angles to produce content that targets specific audiences over and over again. CK TO CONTENTS PAGE better to write one “It’s amazing blog post a week than ten that no one will care about.” “While it’s important to have buyer personas so you know who your content is targeting, you can’t forget that these are real people as well. The Internet is an extremely crowded place now, so your content needs to actually be valuable in order to succeed. It’s hard to think of content ideas that have not been done before, so don’t worry if you can’t think of a 100% original topic. Instead, focus on creating the best content for a given topic. Find the questions that your audience asking (I use Quora, Twitter and Hover awesome support team for that) and answer them. Or if it’s an entertainmen piece, create stuff that’s…you know… actually entertaining. Don’t create conte just for the sake of content. It’s better write one amazing blog post a week th ten that no one will care about.” MICHAEL KESHEN