
JANUARY 31, 2023
full tilt
Bring Your Followers To Your Owned Land
Thanks for stopping by. I treasure your friendship. I no longer reside here. To reach me, please visit 123 Main St., City, Country. I look forward to connecting again.
We often preach the need to move from rented land. But how do you build an “address book” so you can only inform your audience by a note posted on your rented door?
Why not try a technique used by marketers looking to convert prospective customers into “leads” for their sales team? They call them “lead magnets.” For you, they serve as “contact conversions.”
Bonus content: Think about what content your audience might find useful that relates to your content tilt. Is there some content topic or type that doesn’t fit in your normal format they would find valuable?
Erika Kullberg, attorney and personal finance expert, has a multitude of downloadable content that requires an email address (and mobile number in some cases). At the bottom of her home page, she promotes three of them. Two of those are spreadsheets that creators can complete on their own – a budget and expense sheet and a net worth tracker.
If you prefer video and audio content, consider offering exclusive, registration-only bonus episodes.
Ebooks: Bigger than bonus content, ebooks allow you to provide a deeper exploration of a relevant topic to your audience. They don’t have to be novel length – a few thousand words or a designed-heavy dozen or so pages might be enough. The point is that your audience finds significant value in it.
Since you already create content, you don’t necessarily need a new topic. Look through your blog articles, Instagram posts, online courses, podcast episodes, etc. What could you pull together into an ebook? What content could be curated with a little original content thrown in to tie it into a cohesive reading experience?
For Dorie Clark, it was the questions at the end of her book chapters that were converted into ebooks. She also uses an easy-to-spell URL (DorieClark.com/reinvent) to make it easy to say and remember.
Giveaways: You don’t have to have a big budget (or any budget for that matter) to offer an incentive or prize your audience would want. Sure, a Starbucks gift card is a nice idea, but the point is, what can you offer that few others could? Perhaps it’s a free one-hour consulting or AMA session. It could be complimentary admission to a course. Maybe, it’s an item from your merch store. Perhaps, the prize could be a shoutout on an upcoming video.
(Don’t forget to follow the laws in your jurisdiction and platforms about contests.)
As you move or expand to owned land, always keep this question at the forefront of your mind: How do I invite my audience to come along? After all, no one wants to show up at your rented home only to find a note with your forwarding address.
– Ann Gynn
Read the full story for another lead magnet tip.
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we stan Sarah-Jayne Fragola
Entrepreneur: Sarah-Jayne Fragola
Biz: Bella Coco Crochet
Tilt: Crochet instructions
Scene: Website, YouTube, newsletter, podcast (The Yarn Over), book (You Can Crochet With Bella Coco)
Snack Bites:
- Sarah-Jayne Fragola started a personal blog in 2011. A few years in, someone suggested she post a video on her crocheting hobby on YouTube. She did it, expecting no one to watch. They did, and her Bella Coco Crochet brand was launched.
- In 2022, she opened a content studio for her business, hiring three people, including a photographer and community manager.
- Sarah-Jayne says her best advice is listening to your audience – their feedback is essential to moving the business forward.
Why We Stan: Sarah-Jayne was one of millions as a lifestyle blogger. But by narrowing her content to focus on her hobby specialty, she found an audience of over a million and a long-term viable content business.
– Ann Gynn
Learn more about Sarah-Jayne’s journey by reading the full story.
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things to know
Money
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Data revenue: Brands want creators’ data. In 2023, one prediction says they will use the partnerships for more than content – using the creator’s data to make product design changes, inventory decisions, and assess consumer brand sentiment. (The Drum)
Tilt Take: Think about the value your data can provide – it’s more than proving how many people consumed their sponsored content. -
Don’t fake it: Mikayla Noguiera’s recent TikTok reviewing a L’Oreal mascara turned into controversy because it appears she applied fake eyelashes to exaggerate its effect and it seems to be undisclosed sponsored content. Both actions would violate the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Act. (Rob Freund)
Tilt Take: It’s the law to disclose sponsored content. It’s also how you build trust with your audience. How hard is it to type #Ad?
Audiences
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Sinking heat: TikTok “heats” videos – manually boosting videos from celebrities and emerging creators it wants to promote to get them to show up on the for-you page. (Lindsey Gamble)
Tilt Take: We agree with Lindsey’s take. It’s not about heating. It’s about the lack of transparency. TikTok wants people to think it’s all about the algorithm calculating the viewer’s interests and behavior, but it’s not. How hard is it to add #heating?
Tech and Tools
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Old still works: Facebook usage increased in the fourth quarter 2022. Some of the success is attributed to the platform’s increased AI use to fuel the display of more relevant ads and Reels in users’ Facebook streams. (Social Media Today)
Tilt Take: Is that only a boon for Facebook? How does that affect actual user engagement with creators’ pages and groups?
And Finally
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Celebrate, celebrate: Twitter’s 2023 marketing calendar includes 113 events this year, from big sporting happenings to religious celebrations to those little-known occasions like Safer Internet Day. (Twitter)
Tilt Take: The calendar can be helpful to identify activities that may fit with your content business or days to avoid when sharing or posting content to Twitter or anywhere else.
the business of content
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- Joe discusses two AI tools from OpenAI – ChatGPT and DALLE-2 and how he uses them day-to-day. (Content Inc. podcast)
- This week the boys discuss a breaking story about OpenAI and Kenya. The memes are everywhere. (This Old Marketing podcast)
- Discover the 3 myths about leaving your full-time job to go all-in at your startup (Forbes)
- How many of these 6 tips for entrepreneurs have you done? (Study International)
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the tilt team
Your team for this issue: Joe Pulizzi, Pam Pulizzi, Ann Gynn, Laura Kozak, Marc Maxhimer, and Dave Anthony.
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