Creating content worth publishing
His point was that there’s always a bigger story to be told that we alone cannot observe. Great reporting, or a great point-of-view, often requires the thoughts, experiences, and insights of others.
John Bonini • How to Create Content With Your Audience — Content Marketing Education & Consulting | Some Good Content
Delightful
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Successful content aims to provide one single type of value—tactical or strategic
Cassie (former VP Operations at Animalz) • The Content Value Curve - Animalz
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.
Doug Shapiro • Quality is a Serious Problem
- 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
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.”
Writers need to become researchers first and writers second. Successful writers are researchers who write on the side.
As a writer, your goal isn’t to become an expert, but rather to report on or write to them. Hence, your knowledge base is better built around citation instead of internalization. You don’t need to memorize; you need to link.
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