Don’t Hide — Mine Your Brand’s Flaws for Storytelling Gold
January 30, 2024
Robert Rose
Your brand strives for perfection, whether it’s the company’s public image, a seamless campaign message, or flawless email distribution. But your brand has flaws, and that’s a lesson every brand storyteller must learn.
Owned Media Demands This New Content Role for Long-Term Success
January 23, 2024
Robert Rose
To grow a flourishing content garden of owned media properties, your company needs a person or team up to the task. And that’s an editorial product manager.
Build This New Framework for Agile Content Ops in Talent-Starved Times
January 16, 2024
Robert Rose
Budget pressures, unaligned teams, and a stew of content, tech, data, and AI integration challenges have marketers looking for help. Consider a talent cloud approach, which uses external assistance to build internal skills.
For Better Content Leadership, Don’t Blame – Try Cultivating Instead
January 9, 2024
Robert Rose
Don’t sabotage your year by blaming yourself or your team for something that isn’t working well or punishing everybody with an “improvement” plan. Instead, take this less-traveled path to success.
Beyond Resolutions: What’s Your Word for 2024?
January 2, 2024
Robert Rose
Selecting a word for 2024 can work better than making resolutions. The word becomes a theme or intention rather than a set of rules you will likely break. Here’s an option for marketers in 2024.
How To Ditch the Rocks in Your Content Stocking
December 19, 2023
Robert Rose
Are you headed into this holiday season feeling unfinished or uncertain? Here’s how to ditch those gnawing feelings and head into 2024 stronger than ever in your professional life and brand’s marketing.
The Marketing Mandate for 2024: Build Stronger Bonds With Your Audience
December 12, 2023
Robert Rose
If you want to develop and keep your customer and audience relationships in 2024, you will need to strengthen those bonds. Here’s why that’s marketing’s new mandate – and how to make it happen.
Before You Start an AI Strategy, Make the Case To Stop
December 5, 2023
Robert Rose
Generative AI’s integration in your marketing usually doesn’t save your team time. It just adds new items to the workload. So, if you truly want to succeed, you must identify what you’ll stop doing to start the other thing.
3 Questions About AI in Content: What? So What? Now What?
November 21, 2023
Robert Rose
Getting your arms around the disruptions of generative AI presents an extreme challenge. A 20-year-old framework for self-reflection may help. Ask these three questions in proper succession.
Do You Treat Your Audience Like Your Marketing Database? That’s a Mistake
November 14, 2023
Robert Rose
Modern marketing teams recognize the value of building an audience. But what does that really mean? Haven’t content marketers already been doing that? Well, not always, because too many treat a marketing database as an audience.
Is Speed, Not AI Technology, the Real Enemy in Marketing?
October 31, 2023
Robert Rose
Marketers are due for an epiphany. Speed is the name of the tech game. But what won’t you delegate to technology in the name of successful marketing?
Why Your Team Needs Content Rule Makers – and Breakers
October 24, 2023
Robert Rose
Content teams often resist creating rules because they don’t want to operate in a box. But that’s a mistake. Without rules, you lose the ability to benchmark the standard – and learn from the creative rule breakers.
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