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
Narrative-market fit is that intersection between:
Questions your audience is asking
Questions you can credibly answer
Topics that are valuable for your business.
When you have that figured out, you know which topics to write on and which to decline.
Successful content aims to provide one single type of value—tactical or strategic
Cassie (former VP Operations at Animalz) • The Content Value Curve - Animalz
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
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 root of amplification is caring. People don’t engage-with, and platforms don’t amplify things they don’t care about. That caring almost exclusively comes from an emotional place, not a logical one. The process isn’t: “ is this high quality and reputable? If so, I shall share it. “
Instead, it’s, “ that made me feel something powerful, and I want... See more
Instead, it’s, “ that made me feel something powerful, and I want... See more
Rand Fishkin • Who Will Amplify This? And Why? - SparkToro
“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
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