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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Scale Content Marketing Without Hiring More People | Ep. #228

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #228, Eric and Neil discuss how to scale content marketing without hiring more people. Whether it be discerning what deserves your attention and what doesn’t or setting up systems that keep you organized—there are practical things you can do, today, to help you scale your content marketing. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: How to Scale Content Marketing Without Hiring More People 00:33 – One of the problems in content marketing is limited resources 00:56 – It is easy to ask people to do what other people do, but the actual work is difficult 01:21 – Learn how to say “no” to unnecessary work 01:25 – Focus on the things that are working for you 01:35 – Only hire an editor as your contractor 01:42 – You can find your writers at problogger.net 02:16 – Go through the contents of the applicants and see what’s the ideal fit for you 02:32 – Have your editor ask them to make 10 headlines 03:08 – Show some samples of format 03:39 – Get them to write content, post it into Wordpress, and promote it 03:49 – Check Buzzsumo to see who’s sharing similar content and contact them to promote your content 04:45 – It’s important to have the right processes in place 05:27 – Leverage the content that you already have 05:39 – Use Canva and YouTube to slice up your content and upload it separately 05:59 – Use Meet Edgar to repurpose your content 06:20 – Use Smartsheet or CoSchedule to have a content calendar 06:43 – If everything is disorganized, you’ll be constrained and you won’t be putting out your target content 06:54 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Say “no” to the unnecessary tasks and focus on the things that are working. Have the right process in place to optimize content output. Repurpose your most visited content. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with

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your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

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Welcome to another episode of marketing school.

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I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how to scale content marketing

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without hiring more people. The trouble with content marketing, when you're trying to grow more articles,

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or you're trying to publish more articles, I would say you're trying to publish more content,

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you're restrained by your resources.

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So for us, let's say, you know, we have a certain amount of writers,

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if all of a sudden I say, hey, let's produce 2,000 pieces of content and we're only doing like, you know, a couple

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hundred, that's going to be difficult. This topic is about how you can make the most with what you have.

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So the first thing I'll say is, you know, it's really easy to look at other people and say,

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oh, we should be doing that. And it's really easy to start stacking on all

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