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I was walking along the Croisette in sunny Cannes, on my way to my fourth meeting of the morning, my thumbs rapidly typing a Tweet.

It was day two of MIPIM, the international property trade show held every March, and already I felt like my phone was part of my hand and might have to be surgically removed at the end of the week.

Tweeting was par for the course, something you slotted in while hurrying to the next event or one to one. It was about mopping up the sights, sounds and hot topics of the show to give a flavour of what was going on and what it was like for those not there.

It was also a way of showing what you were up to and that you were ‘all over the show’.

But it was only a small part of the output.

My work on MIPIM usually started in December, coming up with content ideas and commissioning the features for the supplements that would go out with the ‘MIPIM issue’.

Planning ahead with content

Supplements usually had an eight-week production schedule. However, because of the volume of content going into what was our biggest issue of the year, preparation started earlier so I could drip-feed articles through to the production desk for subbing and layout.

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Creating brand new B2B content is time-consuming, particularly when you have a website and social media channels to fill. How can you get the maximum bangs for your content bucks with repurposing?

In February’s It’s a B2B Comms Thing, with co-host Ayo Abbas and guest host Susie Lober, we discussed saving time with repurposing content.

Here are some edited highlights; the full video is at the bottom.

Why repurpose your B2B content?

Ayo: Repurposing is about saving time. We put so much effort into a piece of content, so how do I get the most bang for my buck? As I’ve got busy, it’s harder to keep posting every day, so it’s great to have a vault of stuff that you can go into and just adapt.

Also, you think that people are bored of your messaging and what you’re saying, but people are so busy have they even registered your content in the first place?

Susie: Yes, it’s going to save you time, it’s going to save you money. And don’t forget that it is also good for SEO as well.

Me: If you are putting content out on LinkedIn and Twitter. That doesn’t mean to say that all your connections and all your followers have seen that content. So repurposing and re-pushing your content out is about reaching a wider audience.

How should you repurpose your content?

Me: There are many different ways, but here are a couple of examples. If you think of a content pyramid or a hero piece of content, this could be an article, an event, podcast episode, all sorts of things but let’s take an event.

I wrote a 900-word article from a 10-minute interview. So if you have had a 45-minute panel discussion with three or four panellists, how much content, how many words can you get out of that panel?

And you don’t just have to do one article, you could do a series.

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