If you want to create social content fast, it doesn’t have to be that painful. Here’s three ways you can take control.

Tip 1: Curate content on-the-go.


Look no further than yourself. Yes, YOU are the best content creator and it can be fast and painless if you work it into your daily routine.

Content curation involves cherry picking high quality content written by others and using it yourself. If you find an article that you think your audience would like then use a curation tool. Simply clip a summary along with an image and a link back to the original full article and that’s it.

Collect 5 or 6 of these articles and build a mini digest of curated content and you’re done. You get a useful marketing piece and the content owner gets traffic back to their site when people click through to read the full article.

It’s a really fast way to generate content.

Here’s some tools:

 

  • Create a curated blog post using PressIt, WordPress’s native curation tool.
  • Share a curated digest of articles on Twitter, Facebook etc.
  • Send a curated newsletter to your email list, using a bookmark tool like, the Chrome Clipper.


Here’s some more on the newsletters example. It can be very time consuming to create content for your weekly newsletter, right?  It doesn’t have to be, just start using content you curate throughout the week and things will go very quickly.

We know about FlashIssue  (a curation platform for newsletters) but not so many know about the neat curation tool that installs into your Chrome browser. When you’re reading an article online, simply click and bookmark the article with the Chrome Clipper.

The Clipper sends your clipped articles to the web app where you can quickly access them for use in your newsletter. Once you’ve created your newsletter, send it your Mailchimp mailing list or embed it in any email template you’re using with your email service provider.



So it’s simple, creating social content can be very fast and have a great impact on your content marketing activities.

 

Tip 2: Create a digital flyer

The good old fashioned poster has gone digital.

Instead of creating a bland landing page on your blog to announce an event or a product launch try creating a digital flyer and push that out through your media efforts.

So you’re not messing around with formatting HTML and all that time consuming stuff, use one of the new products that let you do everything in a few minutes. Take Smore.com for example. In just a few minutes you can create a compelling digital flyer for use in a Twitter or Facebook campaign.


 

Especially, check out the banner creation feature.

Tip 3: The Infographic (a story in pictures).

I’m sure you’ve seen these before. The good ones take complex information and tell a story with pictures and graphs.

Traditionally, they were hard to create and you needed a full-on design effort (read expensive agency) to get anything done.

Usain Bolt, the Olympic sprinter, is the star of the most awesome infographic I’ve seen recently, showing how his 9.63 Olympic record compares to other Gold medal sprinters over the years (he is lightening fast).

You will need to do some work of course. But when it gets down to it, this doesn’t take much longer than a regular blog post, so the next time you sit down to write a post why not give an infographic a try instead.

There’s a couple of stand out products that streamline the whole process of creating Infographics. I marginally, prefer infogr.am over piktochart, mainly because i like the data feature in infogr.am that lets me create visual charts with my own data.

Once your infograhich is complete you can embed it in your blog / website and share it through Twitter, Facebook and yes, Pintrest. They become really great for SEO when others start embedding your Infograph in their websites.


So there you go,  3 Tips on How to Create Social Content Fast.

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