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The Key to Sales Enablement? Teach Your Storytellers Well

How do you tell a compelling story to an audience that already knows the ending? That’s the challenge sales teams face every day. Teach them how to tell the stories you create – and you’ll both get better results.
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How Story Packages Help You Scale SME-Driven Thought Leadership Content [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Have you ever waited and waited for SME-driven content only to get 5,000 words explaining something that could have been handled in 500? Architected story packages help you avoid that – and get something you can turn into a whole portfolio of stories.
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Should Your Content Team Play to Its Strengths or Fix Its Weaknesses? [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Every content marketing team has strengths and weaknesses. Should you double down on those strengths? Or take steps to shore up the weaknesses? The answer isn’t always obvious, but one thing will help you decide.
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How To Plan a Content ‘Season’ Like a Hollywood Showrunner

An episodic approach to content planning keeps all the teams involved in producing content on track – and other teams’ ad hoc requests at bay. Robert Rose explains how (and why) to plan a season like a TV showrunner.
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Why Internal Customers Will Kill Your Content Strategy

Customers are stakeholders in your content program. But not all stakeholders are customers. Most are more like investors ¬– a key constituency, but not quite the boss of you. Robert Rose offers tips on leading with content instead of serving content.
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We Don’t Talk About Creative Burnout – This Is Why We Should [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Remarkable content isn’t limitless. It’s a precious resource only created by content teams that are treated as essential to the business. So why do most businesses run their teams ragged? And how do we make it stop?
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Content Strategy – Not Content – Can Be Your Brand’s Competitive Advantage

What is a content strategy and how does it provide a competitive advantage if the content itself does not? Isn’t the strategy supposed to define the content? Robert Rose answers.
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Marketing Tech Is So Bright, You Gotta Wear Strategic Shades

Do you approach new marketing tech from a FOMO perspective? You’re not alone. But that’s not a good way to go about it. Robert Rose says you should answer these questions first.
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What Do You Do When Inspiration for Your Content Marketing Wanes? [Rose-Colored Glasses]

While one author loses his inspiration for content marketing, Robert Rose uses his article to inspire this one. Take a breath and read on.
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Look Through These 4 Windows To Right Your Content Marketing Ship

Content marketers often lament the difficulty of doing something new because it requires stopping or changing something old. Robert Rose shares four questions to ask to keep your content strategy from running aground.
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Is Purpose-Led Marketing a Growth Killer? [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Some pundits suggest companies focus on growth marketing over purpose-led marketing in an economic downturn. But Robert Rose argues that approach won’t necessarily give the expected results. Here’s why.
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What Most Companies Get Wrong About Content Strategy (And How To Fix It)

Business leaders think about content strategy the way fish think about water. They don’t – until someone points it out to them. Here’s how to help them make the connection between strategic content and business value.