The fastest way to lose at AI visibility
The fastest way to lose at AI visibility is to start with AI visibility.
Getting Found ≠ Getting Chosen
A couple of weeks ago a VP of Marketing asked me this after they learned a direct competitor was posting 4(!) videos every day on YouTube.
Your content is doing too much (and yet, not enough)
Let me take you inside a conversation I have, in some form, from time to time...
You don't have a content strategy (you just have a content person...)
Early in my consulting work, I'd occasionally get pulled into a client engagement with a quiet secondary assignment.
Stop asking your internal SMEs to write (do this instead)
Almost every company I talk to has the same instinct right now.
How to write a newsletter people reply to
A client sent me this Slack a message last week...
2 big additions to every editorial calendar I work on
Two things I’ve added to the editorial calendar this year that have made a big difference.
Your story is the strategy
A few weeks ago, Sylvia LePoidevin sent me this picture from her Pavilion talk...
Blogs are broken...
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What if most of the stuff we’re trying to optimize AI for are dead ends?
I was on my way to pick up my kids from school yesterday, ruminating on an idea I couldn't quite articulate.
You're different from everyone else...
Every agency says they’re going to drive revenue, increase pipeline, power growth, etc.
What's in your drafts folder?
Here’s a fun, quick exercise: What’s in your drafts folder right now?
You're skipping the best content
I know it’s the popular thing to crap all over, but I have no beef with AI or even SEO. No direct beef, that is.
The silent killer(s) of actual thought leadership
"This is working just like you said it would..."
The end of a (golden) era for SEO?
The way some people are trying to explain away this trend is more concerning than the trend itself.
It’s not just you. Organic is down for (almost) everyone.
Last week my old boss, Pete Caputa (CEO at Databox), called me to catch up and talk shop.
Why you’re having such a hard time finding good writers
One of my biggest observations from working with clients in ’24 was just how difficult it still is for them to find and execute good writing.
What do we do with our blogs?
Just this week I was talking with a prospect and realized...
It's not you...it's me (but really...it's you)
For years we were told to focus on the customer.