Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable (i.e. change)

Gartner’s prediction that organic search traffic to sites will decrease by 50% by 2028 got a lot of critiscism on LinkedIn. And the conversations on LinkedIn among content and SEO folks are pretty divided between if Google will release SGE and why some folks are convinced they never will.  It doesn’t really matter, though. Google’s…

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Content marketing resources at the ready

The #1 thing I hear from folks about this newsletter is that they’ve used something from within it in a deck, in a conversation with a boss, in something that just plain and simple helps them do a better job in their role.  That was always the goal for this newsletter. It is here to…

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Do you have enough time to create thought leadership?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how content marketing is changing, and I know so many of you are, too. I think, and this LinkedIn post really explained it well, that demand marketing is about to become what growth marketing and SEO have been for the last decade.  Now, I know that demand marketing has…

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A content audit template

I’ve been thinking a lot about content audits. For one, I try to do one at least every year –– typically during the holiday season since things are slower. And two, holy heck there has to be a better way to do this.  Did I spend an insane amount of my time off this holiday…

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Content is changing––but 3 pillars remain

Distribution, less is more, and looking to the past to understand the future Content is changing.  Sure, AI is part of that. But, content has been commoditizing for a while now. Heck, I was even part of its commoditizing, creating one of those SEO playbooks people dreamed to copy––generating more than 1M organic sessions a…

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