In this edition: Coming soon to The Cutting Room Nailing the first 3% of your content Want to do a writer's workshop? A quote I know you've been misused On-demand webinars outperform live SEMRush correlates ranking factors Let's do this. Is This Why Your Content Strategy Isn’t Getting More Executive Buy-In? Does your content strategy feel like it's always under attack?Like, at any moment, an executive who's been spending too much time reading LinkedIn bros, "how to do content" advice can...

In this edition: Wix's head of branded SEO joins us live Writing Inner Conflict A popular marketer throws down Why thumbnails come first How to find a good idea Ways to write better hooks Let's do this. Coming Soon to The Cutting Room We're starting the year off STRONG with some of the content marketing space's heavy hitters. Joe Pulizzi - January -30th Devin Reed - February 6th​Johnathan Dane - February 13th Ross Simmonds - February 27th​Join us as we discuss their content marketing...

In this issue: F*ck cancer How to create personal conflict Making newsletters less marketer-y Engaging every age group on social Multiple personalities for AI Establishing crediblity Oh! And I'm developing a course. Reply to this email to ask me more. ​Let's go. One of our own needs our help! This one's more serious than usual. ​Devin Bramhall, the former CEO of Animalz, needs our help. ​She was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and many members of our community of pitching in to...

In this issue: What's missing in B2B content. A framework for discovering intent The state of content marketing A customer persona workbook Dan Levy stresses the importance of word choice Let's go! Top of mind: A story is made of two elements: objectives and conflicts. A character wants something; something gets in their way. Konstantin Stanislavski, the father of method acting, says to get to the heart of a character, you must understand their Super Objective: the simple, singular goal that...

In this edition: ​​ What is the role of conflict? Internal vs External conflict Progressive complications Story structure in public speaking. Jacob McMillen edits. Let's go! Top of mind: We are at a crossroads. On social media and in my private conversations, B2B creators all seem to feel a bit... lost. The old ways are working less, the new ways aren't apparent, and in the meantime, we have to stay on the hamster wheel while we figure it out. This newsletter is really only 14 issues old, and...

In this edition: ​​ Considering the stakes Why the forces of antagonism hold us back Content on writing better intros Why specificity matters A reminder on what you should do after you get the click How Katelyn Bourgoin made $14,950 in 57 minutes with two emails and a Google Doc​​ Katelyn Bourgoin is the founder of Customer Camp, author of the wildly popular “Why We Buy” newsletter and co-founder of ” The Un-ignorable Challenge” a cohort-based program that shows entrepreneurs how to create...