Chad Pollitt created a successful online publication Relevance.com. He’s turned it into a stream of revenue. He shares why businesses don’t just need more content instead they need promotion.
Chad Pollitt is a VP of Audience and Co-founder of Relevance.com an online publication solely dedicated to helping marketing and communications executives solve their online content visibility challenges. Chad is a member of a Forbes Top 100 list. Chad also authored “51 Things Your Mother Taught You About Inbound Marketing” and “The Content Promotion Manifesto.” Chad was named a top five content marketing thought leader and a top 20 CMO influencer.
Think Like A Journalist Quote
“The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.” –Seth Godin
Success Quote
SEO: it’s not what you do, it’s what happens when you do everything else right.
It’s a matter of doing good content promotion…good marketing and PR.
Career Highlight
Chad teases that he’s responsible for “email spam”. Hear how he worked on a project that was the beginning of email marketing. But more important is what he has done for Relevance.com. Hear how he’s created a successful online publication.
When It Didn’t Work
Hear what happened when his publication couldn’t sustain the content production for the self-funded effort. Hear what Chad did to turn things around and make it successful.
Why You Need Promotion Not Just More Content
- Distance and direction: give team members freedom and creativity to achieve the overall mission.
- Every success is directly related to relationships with people.
- Spend time developing relationships.
- The more relationships you have the more successful you’re going to be
- Rely on other people. Content can be time consuming and expensive, you have to collaborate
- Chad writes more for other Websites than he does his own. He uses guest bloggers and contributors for Relevance.
- Get in front of as many audiences as possible and link back to your Website and free resources.
- Get influencers involved in your projects.
- Write short eBooks. Promote using landing pages with forms for people to download. Then write on other Websites and talk about what’s in the books.
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Predictable Revenue, Aaron Ross & Marylou Tyler
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