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20 Ways To Repurpose Content

Repurposing, or repackaging, content is a practice that almost every content writer should engage in.  Why do we repurpose content?  We might be struggling with a case of writers block, we don’t have enough time to write a new article from scratch, or maybe we’ve written a really great article that would be suited for other content formats too.  Whatever the reason is, repurposing content is a great way to breathe new life into existing content and increase traffic and links to your site.  Here’s a quick list of 20 ways you can repurpose your existing content:

  1. Turn a blog post into an off-site article
  2. Break up large pages of on-site content into series of blog posts
  3. Convert case studies into articles
  4. Turn on-site content into a video
  5. Transform on-site content into a PDF
  6. Re-purpose content into a podcast
  7. Create an infographic out of your on-site content
  8. Turn content into a presentation
  9. Create a quick reference guide
  10. Create blog posts out of press releases
  11. Make a Squidoo lens or Hubpage out of an existing article
  12. Take several related articles and create an eBook
  13. Take content written for one market, and tweak it for another
  14. Condense a large article into multiple blog posts
  15. Turn a PowerPoint deck into an article or blog post
  16. Update old blog posts to include recent news or examples
  17. Turn a series of blog posts about a related topic into a white paper
  18. Turn white papers into seminars/webinars
  19. Write a newsletter article from a blog post
  20. Take key points of an article and turn them into tweets

Can you think of other ways to repurpose content?  Share your ideas with us!

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About Caroline Bogart

Caroline Bogart is a Senior Technical Copywriter / Online PR Strategist at Fathom. She is a graduate of Miami University and John Carroll University, with a Bachelor's degree in journalism and a Master's in communications management. Caroline's marketing background in the manufacturing and software industries allows her to craft the conversion-friendly on-site and off-site copy for clients in these industries.

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  1. avatar Kurt Krejny - January 25, 2011 at 10:23 am

    Nice list! Placing PDFs and PowerPoints on document sharing sites like Scribd and Docstoc are another way to repurpose and distribute valuable content to help with visibility.

  2. avatar Roger Hurley - July 4, 2011 at 5:35 am

    I agree Caroline that content marketers can really leverage the effect of a simple ‘idea’. You have created an interesting list with some original possiblities.

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