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The Power of Participation Creation

One great way to build relationships is not by knocking on doors but, rather, by opening your own. Reach out to the people you want to build relationships with and involve them in the creation of content that speaks to them and to their audience.

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The Food Thinkers Themselves, Part 2

In Part 1, I talked about the type of content appropriate to the Food Thinkers platform in its current state and the types of contributors we look for. Today, I discuss how we find contributors and create the content. As … Continued

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The Food Thinkers Themselves, Part 1

The Food Thinkers platform is not merely a blog in the singular sense. It is meant to be a site with a growing number of contributors and content targets. “FoodThinkers is an online stream of simple moments of brilliance from … Continued

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Measuring the Success of a Slow-Growth Model, Part 1

It’s disappointing and demoralizing to see low (or high) numbers at first; so much so that success can seem hopeless, intangible, and ultimately not worth the effort and resources being expended. But in the development of any web channel or platform, traffic will come, provided that quality comes first.

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Food Thinkers: Content that Tastes Just Right

Food Thinkers is a content platform we built for Breville a few months ago. As a home for long-tail food content that resonates with Breville’s core audiences, it is growing steadily and has already seen some great successes. Slow and … Continued

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