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
Content adds strategic value when it equips the reader with a new conceptual framework, a new first principle, or a new perspective.
Cassie (former VP Operations at Animalz) • The Content Value Curve - Animalz
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
It's time we reframed this work to see it more clearly. We're not creating content. We're developing IP. We are not an experts. We are investigators.
Jay Acunzo • A Prompt from John Mulaney: How to Come Up with Better Ideas for Content in Less Time
Why do we want to speak to people?
Who are the people we want to speak to?
What do they need?
How is what they need connected to what we sell?
How can we help them see our value by helping them realize theirs?
Who are the people we want to speak to?
What do they need?
How is what they need connected to what we sell?
How can we help them see our value by helping them realize theirs?
Delightful
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?
Meaning and point of view are essential for anything worthy of our attention. It’s about a sense of purpose and personality that goes beyond mere information transmission. It’s about paying attention, and not outsourcing observation. In a world increasingly populated by auto-generated content, the combination of substance and style will rise above
Carly Ayres • On substance with style
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.