What’s old is new again
When I first started content marketing, I was a news-jacking pro. After all, I came from the news industry, and I knew how to take a piece of news, interview a couple experts, and layer over a point-of-view relevant to the brand I was working at. In fact, this is what had Verizon once send…
Read More11 content team values and expectations (that lead to team success and personal career growth)
I have a lot of little content and career mantras I’ve developed over the years. I’m not always the best at abiding by them. I listened to a Hidden Brain podcast recently that talked about the importance of discipline to keep fighting the good fight. It said even Winston Churchill ignored his own advice after…
Read MoreHow to create content for the funnel
Content is the lifeblood of an organization. After all, our lives are stories––and every decision we make is done based on the story we believe, that we tell ourselves. And content marketing is about telling one story to folks over and over and over again, so as to have them tell it to themselves. This…
Read MoreA content career pathing rubric
Content marketing, like most marketing roles, is often a victim of scope creep. So many content marketers are also social media marketers, email marketers, ABM leaders, etc. This is no more evident to me than with social media marketing. For instance, I talk a lot about content repurposing, and when I talk about it on…
Read MoreHow to scale production without sacrificing quality
In my welcome email for this newsletter, I ask new subscribers what their biggest content marketing problem or conundrum is. And I get a ton of answers back to this, y’all! In fact, I’ve started making a Google Sheet to house them so I can see if I can track trends. More on that another…
Read MoreHow to master the art of interviews
Interviewing is an art, and it takes time and practice to get good at it. I could honestly end this week’s newsletter here by typing, “Just do it more often,” and overtime, you’d develop those skills naturally. That said, I’ve gotten two main tips in my career around interviewing that I think can be helpful.…
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