Creating content worth publishing
Resonance: The sudden urge to act created by a message or experience which aligns so closely with your beliefs or identity that your thoughts, emotions, and abilities feel amplified.
Jay Acunzo • Differentiation Isn't About Topics: How to Find Actual Whitespace to Stand Out
The point of an awareness strategy is not to capture dollars by selling a thing. The point of an awareness strategy is to capture attention by selling an idea adjacent to that thing.
By capturing attention with ideas you own that idea. By owning the idea, you own the audience.
By owning the audience you can tell the audience what to pay attention... See more
By capturing attention with ideas you own that idea. By owning the idea, you own the audience.
By owning the audience you can tell the audience what to pay attention... See more
Steve Bryant • “You don’t get it. You aren’t the point.”
The secret to a truly impactful content strategy lies not in the individual blog posts, videos, or social media updates you churn out. It's the overarching idea that guides and connects all those pieces. When you treat content as a vessel for distributing a central idea rather than a series of one-off pieces, you unlock a new level of impact and... See more
Distribute Ideas, Not Content - Animalz
“So what?” is the common refrain of writing teachers. “Why should your reader care?” A key way that good writing achieves connection is by creating stakes, or engaging the reader by showing them why your ideas matter.
Fiction creates stakes through establishing consequences — what does the protagonist stand to lose in their journey? Argumentative... See more
Fiction creates stakes through establishing consequences — what does the protagonist stand to lose in their journey? Argumentative... See more
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
Message, Market, Method: These ideas could be interesting if I deliver it to these people in this way.
[Matt Church]
Every next question you ask and every next thing you publish is a chance to further develop your IP and become known for your ideas. Those ideas and that IP supersede every project or offering for your business. In other words, upstream from what you're selling and the content you create is the premise you wish to own and the surrounding material... See more
Jay Acunzo • A Prompt from John Mulaney: How to Come Up with Better Ideas for Content in Less Time
Pressing your curiosity through a premise
Three questions to ask yourself before posting anything ever:
Why am I posting this?
Why do I care?
And why does my audience care?
Why do I care about these topics ?
What is it about these topics that’s interesting to me ?
Whatever the answer is, that’s where your writing begins.
You’re just trying to find readers who have the same questions you do.
Which means that the act of writing for a reader is the act of trying to find those answers—those further questions beyond—together.
What is it about these topics that’s interesting to me ?
Whatever the answer is, that’s where your writing begins.
You’re just trying to find readers who have the same questions you do.
Which means that the act of writing for a reader is the act of trying to find those answers—those further questions beyond—together.