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Free content is everywhere on the web. It’s one of the biggest changes that the digital world has brought us. It is said that there is more information around in the last five years than in the whole of human history. Your content needs to make an impact to be noticed.

In the past people expected to pay for content. Now, users get it for free but they are still greedy for interesting new content every day.

Consider what products or services you are going to produce and promote. Then think how you can do this through interesting content that people will want to search for, print and save or forward to their friends.

Content can take the form of long or short blogs (posts about a particular subject, product or service), short tweets on Twitter, webinars, slideshares, photographs, videos on YouTube or Vine, e-books or infographics. This gives you a lot of scope for interesting, visual ways to present what you do.

Think about your three top products or services. Why would someone want them? How would they help them? What would make them buy them? Now think about how you can create three short pieces of writing which you can use as blog posts. Or perhaps you would like to write an e-book and promote it through ten or so regular blog posts that you post over a series of weeks?

“The first lesson of branding: memorability. It’s very difficult buying something you can’t remember” John Hegarty

one minute wonder When you are planning your content, only post when you can answer the three ‘why’ questions: Why this form of content? Why now? Why this channel? If your answers aren’t clear then delay or ditch the idea and think again.

There are so many choices. What about presenting the same information visually? How about laying it out as a PowerPoint? Or as a series of webinars? Would do you want to present? What if you could engage experts to present that information for you and interview them in a collection of videos? Perhaps you are going to present the information in multiple ways. Are you going to do it all at the same time or create anticipation by posting over a period of time?

You can present the same content in long blogs, short tweets, in photos or videos.