Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
The guide to creating engaging web content and building a loyal following, revised and updated

Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a "voice," including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online—and using them to establish credibility and build a loyal customer base.

  • Find an authentic "voice" and craft bold content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them to share it with others
  • Leverage social media and social tools to get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible
  • Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy
  • Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums
  • Boost your online presence and engage with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules.
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Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
The guide to creating engaging web content and building a loyal following, revised and updated

Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a "voice," including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online—and using them to establish credibility and build a loyal customer base.

  • Find an authentic "voice" and craft bold content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them to share it with others
  • Leverage social media and social tools to get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible
  • Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy
  • Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums
  • Boost your online presence and engage with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules.
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Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

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The guide to creating engaging web content and building a loyal following, revised and updated

Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a "voice," including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online—and using them to establish credibility and build a loyal customer base.

  • Find an authentic "voice" and craft bold content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them to share it with others
  • Leverage social media and social tools to get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible
  • Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy
  • Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums
  • Boost your online presence and engage with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781119447443
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 09/30/2025
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, a training and education company with the largest community of marketers in its category, and co-founded ClickZ.com. She is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur magazine, a contributor to LinkedIn's Influencer program, and Amex's OPEN Forum. There's nothing more fun than following her on Twitter, where she has 170,000 followers, or subscribing to her own site at AnnHandley.com.

C.C. Chapman
is a media creator, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and online marketing consultant. He is the founder of DigitalDads.com and the host of PassionHit.tv. For more information, please visit cc-chapman.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Meerman Scott ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Big Fat Overview (Sometimes Called an Introduction) xv

Part 1 The Content Rules 1

Chapter 1 The Case for Content 3

Chapter 2 The Content Rules 14

Chapter 3 Insight Inspires Originality: Who Do You Want to Attract? 18

Chapter 4 Who Are You? 28

Chapter 5 Reimagine; Don't Recycle: Anatomy of a Content Circle of Life 54

Chapter 6 Share or Solve; Don't Shill 70

Chapter 7 Stoke the Campfire 96

Chapter 8 Create Wings and Roots 102

Chapter 9 The Care and Feeding of Fans 114

Chapter 10 Attention B2B Companies: This Is the Chapter You Are Looking For 120

Part 2 The How-To Section 139

Chapter 11 A Blog as a Hub of Your Online Content 141

Chapter 12 If Webinars Are Awesome Marketing Tools, Why Do Most of Them Suck? 153

Chapter 13 What's the Difference between an Ebook and a White Paper? (And When Should You Use Them?) 170

Chapter 14 The Single Biggest Secret to Creating a Compelling Customer Success Story (Formerly Known as a Case Study) 182

Chapter 15 From Dumpy to Sexy: A FAQs Makeover 187

Chapter 16 Video: Show Me a Story 195

Chapter 17 Podcasting: Is This Thing On? 206

Chapter 18 Photographs: The Power of Pictures 210

Part 3 Content that Converts: Success Stories (with Ideas You Can Steal!) 215

Chapter 19 Reynolds Golf Academy: Greensboro, Georgia 217

Chapter 20 The Cool Beans Group: Greensboro, North Carolina 222

Chapter 21 U.S. Army: Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Monroe, Virginia 227

Chapter 22 AskPatty.com, Inc.: Thousand Oaks, California 231

Chapter 23 Kadient: Lowell, Massachusetts 236

Chapter 24 HubSpot: Cambridge, Massachusetts 240

Chapter 25 Kodak: Rochester, New York 248

Chapter 26 Boeing Company: Chicago, Illinois 253

Chapter 27 Indium Corporation: Clinton, New York 259

Chapter 28 PinkStinks: London, England 263

Part 4 This Isn't Goodbye 267

Chapter 29 This Isn't Goodbye, and a Gift for You 269

Index 273

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