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
Your unique point of view is your brand’s truth, the belief that you want to scale. Your key premise represents the non-negotiable story of your view of the world – what the organization believes. It is your answer to an overall question.
Robert Rose • How To Use POV Architecture To Create Trust | Content Marketing Institute
Before you make a claim or argument, ask, “So, what?”
Your whole audience and your ideal customers are asking, What's In It For Me? Why should I care?
Anticipate and address skepticism or disinterest from readers, and write and edit with the skeptical reader in mind.
How do you get them to listen to you? Why should they?
If you were arguing with them
It is when you begin expressing your ideas and turning your knowledge into action that life really begins to change. You’ll read differently, becoming more focused on the parts most relevant to the argument you’re building. You’ll ask sharper questions, no longer satisfied with vague explanations or leaps in logic. You’ll naturally seek venues to
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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.
{D} 119: Yes but what's your question
- Who? Who is the audience for each piece of content (fill in the blank, i.e., blog)? Who is the specific buyer persona you are targeting with this platform?
- Why? Why are you doing this? What is the behavior change that you must see to call this content initiative a success? (Do you need to drive sales, save costs, or drive customer loyalty?)
- Outcome?
Joe Pulizzi • If Your Content Marketing is for Everybody, It's for Nobody
What we control are (A) whether or not we pay attention to and pursue our curiosity, (B) whether or not we create consistently, and (C) whether not we approach our work with confidence, so we can stop holding back from what we're trying to say and how we're trying to say it.
Jay Acunzo • Do Your Ideas Pass the Permanent Ink Test?
Under this definition, quality is not stated preference or value judgment, it is revealed preference. It is not an inherent property of a product but an emergent outcome of how consumers implicitly weigh its attributes in a particular context.