The Definitive Guide to Lead Generation

CHAPTER SEVEN: SOCIAL MEDIA AND LEAD GENERATION
SLIDESHARE
Readers are inundated with text, which means marketing professionals can’t rely solely on whitepapers and blog
posts to reach prospects and customers. It’s now vital to include visual elements in all of your marketing campaigns.
SlideShare is a service that hosts
your slide decks and presentations
online, but it’s also much more—
it’s an essential part of any
successful content marketing
strategy, and a powerful social
community with a reported 60
million monthly visitors.
Creative Topics and Visuals
Content marketing through SlideShare
can help you establish yourself as an
expert in your field, using highly
consumable visual elements. When it
comes to lead generation, SlideShare
can help you attract audiences who
might ordinarily skim past your
content. Some people might want to
read a 10-page ebook, while others
want to consume their information
quickly and visually.
Optimizing for SEO
Creating slide presentations that rank
for certain keywords can be much
easier than ranking a post on your
blog. To give your presentations a
fighting chance in the world of search
engines (as well as in SlideShare’s
own search results) include keywordrich
titles, descriptions, and tags.
Write your titles and descriptions with
SEO in mind.
SlideShare presentations are easily
embedded into other sites, which will
also drive SEO results. Each time
someone embeds your presentation,
it serves as an inbound link to
your content.
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