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Today we close our quick, two-part series on takeaways from Authority Rainmaker by focusing on the lessons learned by listening to Henry Rollins. Rollins, of course, gave the closing keynote at Authority Rainmaker. He then spoke at Boulder Theater the next night. Jerod was in attendance for both.

In this episode, Jerod and Demian recount their first Rollins live experiences and share what stood out most:

• What made Henry Rollins such a perfect choice for the Authority Rainmaker closing keynote ‰ÛÓ whether people realized it beforehand or not
• Why Henry Rollins is, much to Demian‰Ûªs chagrin, a perfect embodiment of ‰ÛÏchoose yourself.‰Û
• Jerod‰Ûªs impressions of two-and-a-half more hours of Rollins the next night in Boulder
• The importance of placing periods and exclamation points at end of your plans ‰ÛÓ not question marks.
• How Henry Rollins is, in his own words, like a frozen yogurt machine.
• Demian‰Ûªs two favorite quotes from Rollins‰Ûª closing keynote
• Why Henry Rollins‰Ûª example is one to follow for anyone who wants to build an authentic, long-term connection with an audience
• How Rollins prepares for each presentation

And then Demian ends the episode with ‰Û_ a poem about skinny jeans? You‰Ûªll just have to listen to find out the connection.
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The Show Notes

• The Iron ‰ÛÓ by Henry Rollins
• HenryRollins.com

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In this podcast we talk to Kaspar who has worked in the industry for 9 years and used to be on the search team at Google. In 2013 he joined forces with Fili Wiese and created searchbrothers.com performing risk analysis and penalty recovery and assistance.
Kaspar talks about what to do in the event that you are penalised by Google and the processes you must take to get your penalty lifted. He tells us how Google sees user experience, infrastructure, server speed, quality of content, community building and interaction as particularly important. After you have had a penalty lifted, will your site ever recover fully? Listen to the podcast to find out!
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Authority Rainmaker came and went two weeks ago, but its impact is still being felt. In this episode, Demian and Jerod go back and forth delivering quick-hit takeaways from the conference that stuck with them once they left Denver.
Among the speakers who Jerod and Demian discuss:

• Dan Pink
• Scott Brinker
• Pamela Wilson
• Sonia Simone
• Ann Handley
• Bernadette Jiwa
• Chris Brogan
• Sally Hogshead
• Danny Sullivan
• Michael King
• Joe Pulizzi
• Sean D‰ÛªSouza
• Joanna Lord
• Scott Stratten and Ryan Deiss

And, of course, Henry Rollins ‰ÛÓ though we save the majority of the Rollins talk for next week‰Ûªs follow-up episode.
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Simon Swann has been working in digital for 11 years with start-ups in mostly the sports/retail sectors. He now works in the publishing sector. In this podcast Simon talks about youtility marketing and the importance of building something that is helpful and useful to your audience. Brands are realising that broadcasting and promoting is becoming very noisy, therefore breaking down barriers and drawing a bridge between the brand and their audience is imperative. How is this done? Embrace your digital team and build conversations, don‰Ûªt be too corporate, build on the sociable angle and engage.
Simon talks about differentiating your brand in a crowded sector. He discusses blue ocean vs red ocean, crowdsourcing and brand aspiration. How do you build authority? You need to understand your USP, have a trust element, be consistent and have brand transparency. Then you need to measure it, focusing on key metrics.
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Kitbag.com
Threadless in the US
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What does a boy band pop group called Jerod Morris and the Sponge Bags have to do with content marketing? More than you might think.
In this episode of the Lede we introduce you to the perfect illustration for understanding content syndication.
Content syndication is nothing more than circulating the same article, video, or podcast across multiple pubs. For example, our host Demian Farnworth could take a Copyblogger article he wrote and try to get it published on Business Insider, Fast Company, and Huffington Post.
How could this be a good thing? Easy: it broadens your reach and exposure to new audiences without demanding you invest more time in creating new content.
You can do the same thing on new social media sites, too, like Medium and LinkedIn. These platforms give you a publishing opportunity without the gatekeepers at big media sites.
But there are risks involved. Our hosts focus on Medium first.
In this 22-minute episode Demian Farnworth and Jerod Morris discuss:

• Number one reason Demian failed on Medium
• The curious 130-year history of content syndication
• Do this to actually grow a responsive audience on Medium
• Publishing on Medium: the good, bad, and ugly
• The man who figured out how to make Medium work

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The Show Notes

• The Ultimate Content Marketer‰Ûªs Guide to Syndication and Licensed Content
• Coffee Time Sean Smith‰Ûªs Medium Collection
• Content Marketing for Startups
• Demian Farnworth on Medium

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Today we are joined by Alex Hepworth, who is digital content and PR Manager here at SiteVisibility, she has recently spoken at the Etsy group to pass on blogger outreach tips. She explains that her talk was based on the ways in which people, who have an Etsy shop, can work with bloggers to build brand awareness, increase traffic to their site,åÊ imagery and social channels to their site. Etsy is an online marketplace where creative entrepreneurs sell their hand made creations to people that are looking for unique objects that they most often won‰Ûªt find anywhere else.
Alex draws from experience when contacting and using a blogger for a client content marketing campaign, which had to lead to bigger and better opportunities; it‰Ûªs not just a blog post, you can get more from it. From Alex‰Ûªs experience of using bloggers she has witnessed the great imagery that it can create for a business and what it can do for a company.
Alex was asked, what‰Ûªs the best approach to getting a great blogging strategy? Alex believes that you need to figure out what you aim to achieve out of the blogging campaign and the content from brand awareness. She also believes that it important utilise the bloggers social channel and approach the blogger with a story in order for the blogger to create a journey with the brand. It will allow the blogger to also reach to their target audience which will then have a knock on effect with the client‰Ûªs campaign. In the podcast Alex further drops techniques that will help business approach a blogger and gain a blogging strategy. For example:

• Give aways
• Seasonal periods
• Events
• Getting blogs to create look books
• Instagram takeovers ‰ÛÒ get a blogger take over your accounts and on their profile
• Pintrest

How do you decide to know which blogger to go for?
Alex believes that relevancy and quality level of their copy on their blog posts are important features as they will help attract the audience and produce suitable content, along with their social channels. Moz authority ranking toolbar can allow a wealth of data on blogger outreach, as it can help give an idea of the page authority and a domain authority.
Throughout this podcast Alex enthusiastically shares hints and tips that will help you reach bloggers to help your marketing campaigns and ways to build on collaborating pieces of work.