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Repetition is great leadership
The basics matter. I took a leadership course years ago as part of leadership training at a company I worked for. One thing I think about a lot from that course is this: “It takes repeating yourself roughly 7 times for your team to really internalize what you are saying. If you aren’t repeating yourself…
Read MorePerpetual: My Take on theSkimm’s acquisition
Why theSkimm Mattered In 2012, theSkimm launched with a simple yet powerful idea: making news digestible for young millennial women. Founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, both former NBC News producers, struck what seemed like gold almost immediately.Within their first year, they landed a spot on the Today Show. By September 2014, Reese Witherspoon was…
Read MoreAI is great, but it needs an editor.
AI usage is up across the board––and all I think about is water every time I use it. Nonetheless, a VP even asked me to run a report through ChatGPT today to see what insights it pulled out. I told her, “I already did,” and then we reviewed the outputs. It’s commonplace at this point.…
Read MoreIf you write it, they won’t come.
The online discourse about content marketing is all over the place. SEO works. SEO is dead. Webinars work. Webinars are dead. Long-form content works. Long-form content is dead. Most of these takes are, well, takes. There’s little data backing them up, and even if there were, the larger questions around website information architecture and interlinking,…
Read MorePerpetual: The Major Shift of Media
The Next Media Shift Is Here Every decade, media goes through a massive shift. What worked before stops working. The best operators see it coming and adapt before it happens. The next shift? It’s already here, and if you’re not preparing, you’re already behind. The Last Big Shift Almost 10 years ago, I met with…
Read MoreHow to strategically prioritize content creation
Your product marketing team is your #1 input to your content strategy. In fact, at many orgs, content marketing and strategy teams live on product marketing. But even if yours doesn’t, your content strategy needs to align with your product roadmap. Marketing’s main job is to create a narrative and tell a story around how,…
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