Creating content worth publishing
Think of narratives as a layering process:
- Start with your value propositions to clarify what makes your brand unique.
- Map these to relevant CEPs to anchor your messaging in real buying situations.
- Use consistent themes and stories to build memory links that stick.
More than (key)words: A better approach content strategy for 2025 and beyond
Research topics and angles. What are people in your audience talking about on LinkedIn? Use the search functionality on LinkedIn to search about specific topics you know your audience cares about and see what people are saying. Which posts get the most engagement? What are people saying in the comments? Who are the common players posting about it?... See more
John Bonini • How to Create Content With Your Audience — Content Marketing Education & Consulting | Some Good Content
The people with followings, or those gatekeepers at the publications, events, email newsletters, blogs, journals, broadcasts, and accounts have three unique qualities when it comes to sharing your work (or writing about you, inviting you to their event, including your link in their newsletter, etc):
- They’re driven by incentives to earn engagement
Rand Fishkin • Who Will Amplify This? And Why? - SparkToro
To find a topic that is right for you:
- Follow your energy . What topics give you energy to think about, write about, and talk about? What saps you of energy? Spend more on the former and less on the latter. This one trick will tell you a lot.
- Make sure it’s based on your real-life experience. You need to know what you’re talking about. People can
Lenny Rachitsky • 500,000
AI can't generate good taste, but it can help you transform the raw material of your taste into something beautiful.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
Good value propositions are specific, defensible, and rooted in your audience’s reality. Think beyond product specs. What’s the human impact? How does it make someone’s job easier, their results better, or their life more manageable?
More than (key)words: A better approach content strategy for 2025 and beyond
But the 95% who are NOT in-market are not up for you telling them what they need to know or do.You want to shift their thinking about the Category Problem in ways that align with your own product's unique worldview.Every product has a set of opinions baked into the design of the product about how the world works and the best way to address the... See more