For a Better Long-Term Content Strategy, Find a Purple Audience

“The stock market is not the economy.”

When the stock market is up, it doesn’t always follow that the economy is great. When the stock market crashes, it doesn’t always mean the economy is bad.

That’s as true today as it was 25 years ago when I first got into marketing. And it’s a great reminder to avoid basing business decisions on faulty connections.

Over the years, I’ve learned an adjacent lesson about content and audiences: Popularity isn’t a sign of differentiation. People don’t necessarily regard what is popular among online audiences or the media as high quality – or even true.

If you successfully chase trends and feed popular content to audiences, you have not necessarily differentiated your content. On the other hand, differentiating by taking a contrarian or highly niche view of what’s popular doesn’t always work either. How do you blend popularity and differentiation?

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Stop Writer’s Block, Imposter Syndrome, and Other Content Fears

Yes, writing is hard.

When writing for content marketing, the process becomes even more challenging. You have no time to sit and wait for inspiration or the muse to help you craft engaging text. You have content plans to follow and deadlines to meet.

That’s when fear arises.

Raise your hand if one of these whispers creeps into your mind when you try to write:

  • “A better article exists already. My content is a pathetic copy.”
  • “I’m not good enough. I can’t write better than [your guru’s name here].”
  • “So much info! Can I structure all of it? I’ll miss something essential.”
  • “What should I write?”
  • “They won’t like it. I’ll get rejected.”
  • “My draft sucks; it’s boring.”
  • “Johnny writes 1,000 words every day. I’m too slow.”

Writing fears fall into two categories: doubts about your abilities or concern over others’ judgment of your work. You can tame blank-page syndrome,

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Editorial Calendar Instruments and Templates for Content material Advertising and marketing

Fast: Identify the device most important for successfully managing your content material advertising and marketing program.

Regardless of your position or tasks, the reply ought to be an editorial calendar.

Why? Content material creation includes one million small duties. A dependable system retains monitor of all these processes and every content material piece’s standing because it strikes via them.

However content material advertising and marketing editorial calendars can do far more than that.

They’ll streamline strategic collaboration, monitor advertising and marketing efficiency, and establish content material repurposing alternatives.

With a considerate strategy and correct configuration, editorial calendars can improve crew productiveness and add readability at each stage of your model’s content material advertising and marketing journey.

Discover ways to construct a custom-made content material advertising and marketing editorial calendar – and how you can maximize its advantages – with the following pointers, examples, and templates.

1. Set the inspiration for

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