A ready-to-use 2025 planning template

It’s FY25 planning time. In an ideal world, you are planning your full content strategy for 2025, knowing much of it will change––specifically the details.  Dates will be pushed, forward and back. Product launches will move. SMEs will drop out. New channels or tactics may prove more effective, and you’ll shift. But what shouldn’t change,…

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The 4 types of content you need in your strategy in 2025

I’ve spent my first week back at work catching up with the team, and doing an audit––what is working for us now, and what are our competitors doing. It is 2025 planning season after all.  I’ve audited 6 different competitors, looking at their content types, formats, and UX. One thing is incredibly clear: written content…

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9 Reforge artifacts I’m finding useful 

If you aren’t familiar, Reforge is a fantastic place to find courses and “artifacts” from senior and executive-level marketers just like you. Artifacts are simply templates, decks, etc. that folks used at their companies. I find the artifacts specifically helpful for gut checks on how to approach something, how to organize it, and how to…

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11 content marketing truisms

Everyone judges a book by its cover, which is to say that the look & feel of your content matters. Design matters. Readability matters. Work closely and well with designers. Elevate their work. Support their careers. Make sure they know that your success and theirs are tied. They are.

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The 3 types of edits

I perform 3 types of edits on every piece of content that comes my way. The first edit is the largest and most extensive. The final edit takes into account how people read on the internet, and makes sure that our content can stand up to those standards.  I break it out into these three…

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 Does anyone read blogs anymore?

A decade ago, when I left the media world to join tech as a content marketer, the internet was a different place. People frequented the homepages of their favorite publications––whether that was Mashable or a tech site’s blog like Shopify.  Back then, blogging was what turned regular folks into influencers––and millionaires. Glossier went on to…

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