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You Are Already Building Your Backlist, Build It Better!

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Recently, Seth Godin talked about backlist in his blog. This was something new for me. I have never heard of Backlist before. So, what does backlist mean exactly?

Seth explains-

“Backlist” is what publishers call the stuff that got published a while ago, but that’s still out there, selling.

That means- backlist is your legacy, backlist is what you already created and that is still out there for other people to access, to read or to view, to spread.  And, your backlist is not anonymous. Backlist must be credited to you or your organization. Continue reading

The 5 Cs of Content Marketing

Brian Clark, the founder of Copyblogger, defined Content Marketing as the process of ‘creating and sharing valuable free content to attract and convert prospects into customers, and customers into repeat buyers.’ Brian captured the gist of Content Marketing within a few words. Starting from this definition, I can see that the whole process of Content Marketing involves a number of factors that start with ‘C’. Content Marketing can easily be summarized in 5 Cs: 4 actions i.e. Creating, Curating, Connecting and Converting around one central factor- Community. Continue reading