Curate Content the Smart Way - Smart Curation Skills Review

Be the Source for Your Niche Audience

A few years ago one of the gals in my mentor group created a product to help people find, organize, and curate content. Her tagline is “Be the Source”.

For whatever topic you are known for, be the source for your audience. You want people to say “Oh, Angela knows all about designing WordPress sites” or “Shelly, is a trained hypnotherapist, she knows all about the latest trends” or “Jackie is the queen of beauty tips.”. You get the idea right?

What is your topic of expertise? What do you want to be known for?

Until recently I was known for crocheting, in fact, my moniker was “mom with hook”. I held that name until February of 2015. No matter where I was online, people knew me as the mom who crochets.

Now, I am known as the “to-do list annihilator”.

How do I get ‘stuff done’? I use systems and processes to streamline my work. Hint: Smart Curation Skills is a system I use.

Let me share another story with you. For many years, I participated in blog challenges and wrote numerous articles. I was a content machine. Some of the posts were spot on and useful, but the rest was just rubbish. The rubbish was simply writing to get words on a screen and to hit the publish button.

Now I ask you, who did that help?

• My audience? NO, they just ignored it or stopped following me
• Me? No, it just burned me out
• Google? Yes and No. There was a time when Google ranked anything considered ‘content’, but not anymore.

Curation: The Next ‘Buzz’ Thing

Around the same time that curation started buzzing around the internet, sites like StumbleUpon, BizSugar, Flipboard, Evernote, Pocket, and RebelMouse and more made it easier to curate quality content.

Before I get into the specifics about this product I want to clarify the difference between quality curation and sloppy [spammy] curation.

Quality Curation:
Sifting through content, organizing it, and presenting it to your audience in a way that is meaningful to them and respects the copyright of the author. Your audience is the focus.

Key point: You are not Plagiarizing or stealing content.

Sloppy [Spammy] Curation:
Grabbing the RSS feed of top bloggers and adding it to your blog in order to grab Google’s attention and hack their system for penny ads. THIS IS NOT CURATION, IT IS THEFT.

Copying the content from another site and adding it to your blog [and not citing the source] is PLAGIARISM.

Copying the content from another site and adding it to your blog is PLAGIARISM. Click To Tweet

Now, on to the review.

Product: Smart Curation Skills

What’s Included:

• Smart Curation Skills Guide
• 2 Curation Skills Webinar Replays

You’ll learn the simple twist Kelly adds to her content curation strategy. It’s brilliant and is what sold me on this product.

Both the guide and the webinar replays work together. You can see her do what she shares in her guide. For those [like me] who need to see something done as well as know why it is done this is a fabulous package.

Price: $37.00 BUY NOW

Here are a few key lessons you’ll learn:

1. How to get and stay in the ‘know’
2. How to monitor a large number of sites without wasting time
3. How to monitor and engage with thought leaders in your niche
4. How NOT to get sucked into the information vortex

Before Smart Curation Skills

• Brainstorming ideas
• Creating outlines
• Writing content
• Trying to maintain a daily blog habit
• Stressed
• Overwhelmed
• Enjoyment of writing and blogging sucked out of you
• Little time for ‘social media’ because you’re writing and publishing content all the time

After Smart Curation Skills

• Whip up a post in under 5-minutes
• You are no longer a slave to your blog
• You can interact with influencers without feeling the tug of your to-do list
• You become the source people turn to when they think of your topic
• More traffic to your blog
• More eyeballs on your opt-in offer
• Less time writing

Are there any disadvantages to Smart Curation Skills?

I’m hard pressed to find a disadvantage other than you actually have to pay for Kelly’s research and time.

Sure you can curate content all by yourself, it’s pretty simple. Just locate the content, grab the link, and share with your readers.

The thing about Kelly’s product is the added touch she adds to it. She shares it in the guide and shows you in the over-the-shoulder videos.

She also shares how she organizes her content in Feedly. This is priceless information that helps me save time for my clients.

How I use SCS? Sara’s Awesome Finds

I curate content under ‘Sara’s Awesome Finds’. This is content that my readers and followers enjoy reading. You can see some of the items I’m keeping an eye on HERE on my Pinterest Board.

I will read the article or use the application (resource), and then write a little blurb about the points that stood out to me. I link back to the source and create my own image for the post.

Here’s how Kelly does Curation

Still overwhelmed with all the content you need for your business?

Let me take care of it for you. I actually enjoy this stuff!

Book a Strategy Call today so we can discuss how you can delegate this [Hint: The Call is FREE plus I never Bully my Clients into Buying]

Brilliant, isn’t it?

Let’s Recap:
- Be the Source for your audience in your niche [your topic].
- Stop overworking yourself and implement systems [like curation] into your business game plan
- Don’t do sloppy [spammy] curation instead practice quality curation - your audience will thank you for it

Take One Small Action:

Buy Smart Curation Skills for you or for your assistant [*Affiliate Link* Thank you by purchasing through my special affiliate referral link which brings in a small commission.]

And Now, I invite you to watch me curate content for my social media sites.

P.S. Smart Curations Skills is also a perfect gift for your virtual assistant. I use this system for my own clients. It will add one more tool to his/her ‘tool belt’ plus you’ll receive quality content and traffic to your blog.