Generating Content: One Thing Most People Miss
One, Market Samurai, is a paid solution, and is in fact an entire suite of tools aimed at everything from keyword and competition research to designing ads. But there's one other module that doesn't get credit and that is the Find Content module.
Basically, you can choose from several article directories, Youtube, Yahoo News, Answers, Google News etc. And it goes out and finds up to date relevant articles, videos, and news. I'll use this to find threads, ideas and concepts that I can then "spin" (the GOOD kind thank you!) into awesome content. In fact, I'll sometimes hop into this just to see what's new on a particular topic.
Now, this is NOT an advertisement for Market Samurai. It just occurred to me that it should be mentioned. The other "service" of course, is, you guessed it, your brain. Sure you can use everything mentioned but if you can't read between the lines and develop your own unique content based on what you see, then there's an issue. It's not just about scraping content, rss feeds and the like. It's how you use the information to develop unique content specific to your readers that really matters.
Yes, it's more work, but ultimately if you're looking to be the expert and extend your personal and professional brand, this is something you cannot skip.
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