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Are you one of the 69% of companies who use an editorial calendar for their blog content? It’s a great way to store ideas, plan upcoming content, and keep your entire content team on the same page.
…But committing to publishing content various times per week or month means you’re bound to run out of ideas.
We wanted to know how marketers resolve that problem. So, we asked 64 marketers to share their techniques for filling their editorial calendars with highly relevant topics.
(You know, the ones their audience actually want to read.)
We distilled everything we learned into 20 essential tactics for building out an effective editorial calendar. But first…
Simply put, an editorial calendar is a document that organizes all of the content your team has published, is currently writing and plans to write in the near or distant future.
They allow content and marketing teams to forward plan the topics they plan on writing, the audience they’re service, as well as all the necessary dependencies for getting the content written.
The terms editorial calendar and content calendar are often used interchangeably, and while they are very similar, there are also some subtle differences between the two. An editorial calendar, as highlighted above, is a guiding framework used by marketers to plan content in advance. They can include topic ideas, templates for different types of content, desired output and similar.
On the other hand, content calendars are more specific, and dive deeper into the daily management of your team’s publishing schedule and monthly content plans. With content calendars, teams are able to flexibly change things in a timely manner and stay consistent day in and day out.
Whether you choose to combine the best of both worlds is up to your team, hence the coined name: editorial content calendar.
There are a number of editorial calendar tools marketers use to stay organized, including (in no specific order):
Project management tools:
Content calendar (management) apps:
Spreadsheets
1. It helps you stay organized and aligned with your goals
Having an editorial calendar allows you and your team to plan and organize your content ahead of time. By being able to see what topics you have planned out for the week or month, you can easily fine-tune your topics and publishing schedule to ensure your content is closely aligned with your content marketing strategy and business goals.
2. Fosters team collaboration
With an editorial calendar, your team is encouraged to contribute actively and collaboratively to the content ideation process. Additionally, it helps keep everyone on the same page on content tasks, deliverables, deadlines, and so on.
3. It helps with consistency
One way to guarantee that your you and team members never slack in creating content is by having an editorial calendar. By scheduling content way ahead of time, you can be sure to stay consistent in publishing content and also in driving engagement on your social media channels, especially on days when you’re drenched with other work priorities.
4. Easily identify content gaps
Not only does an editorial calendar allow you to stay organized, but it also helps you to see what topics you already covered at a glance, and other topics/themes you need to branch out to. Additionally, you’ll also be able to schedule content themes on par with certain holidays.
5. Measure the effectiveness of your content efforts
A content editorial calendar can help you spot unique patterns or trends in the kind of content you publish. Do certain topics perform better than others? What time of the day do you see the most engagement? Use this information to inform the kind of content you produce as well as post frequency, optimal post times, etc.
If you’re new to using editorial calendars, and you’re not sure how to create one, take a look at 3 editorial calendar templates and examples to help you get started and inspired.
1. Editorial calendar template by HubSpot
2. An example of Digital Authority’s editorial calendar on CoSchedule
3. An example of Get Mintent’s Editorial Calendar
Before we dive in with blog post ideas, let’s take a step back and consider what makes a good piece of content.
Paul Ronto of RunRepeat thinks “the main goals of your content should be to add value for your users, create brand authority in your niche, and possibly to drive converting traffic to your product pages.”
“The best way to add value is to either create posts that fill a void in the current landscape of your niche, answer a specific question searchers are typing into the search bar, or create content on a topic that’s covered that’s leaps and bounds better than what’s currently out there.”
Now we’re clear on that, here’s how our experts find golden nugget topics to fill their editorial calendars with.
Related: 30 Ways to Come Up With Great Blog Topic Ideas For Your Editorial Calendar
Now that we’ve level-set on what an editorial content calendar is, how can marketers fill them with great and relevant topics? We distilled everything we learned into 20 essential tactics for building out an effective editorial calendar:
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Research is often one of the first things you’ll do in this process, right?
Not necessarily. Alexandra Zelenko of DDI Development thinks you should “focus on your content marketing goals.”
“Without an editorial calendar in place, you will find it challenging to deliver regular, varied content that is relevant to the needs of your audience.”
“However, the first thing you should do is to consider your goals and identify your target audience, their wants and needs. Think about what you want to achieve: more engagement from users, more brand awareness, or generating more leads, conversions?”
Zelenko continues: “Having that in mind, you can fill your editorial calendar with highly-relevant content.”
Pain points are objections, challenges, or problems that your target customers are suffering with.
Crediful‘s Chane Steiner thinks “the key [to finding good topics] is finding one strong pain point that will appeal to your readers and your service.”
“Once you select a pain point, you can schedule several blogs to help flesh the idea out in more detail. This will also help build a relevant cluster of keywords that revolves around each major pain point.”
Steiner continues: “In my experience, this has done much more for keyword rankings than using the same keyword repeatedly in unrelated blogs.”
Andrew Ruditser of Maxburst, Inc agrees, and thinks “it is important to know what your audience is interested in to get the most out of your blog posts.”
“Knowing your target audience and their persona will give you a better understanding of what your audience is looking for and what type of posts will spark their interest. You want to make sure you are posting content that your users want to read and knowing your type of audience will help you do so.”
However, HELLO Marketing Agency‘s Renee Bauer thinks you shouldn’t limit yourself to one buyer persona or pain point: “Especially for B2B marketing, you probably have multiple personas in your target audience.”
“Learning as much as you can about each persona’s wants and needs ensures that your content topics, themes, and campaigns are not just relevant but interesting to the people you want to reach,” Bauer says.
A marketing funnel shows the typical touchpoints people have before they hit “purchase”.
Tony Mastri of MARION Digital Marketing thinks you should use this as content for your editorial calendar: “My strategy for populating a blog editorial calendar is to layer in topics segmented by product/service focus, and funnel position/searcher intent.”
Mastri uses a plastic surgeon’s blog, for example:
However, Mastri mentions that “while scheduling these different topics on my editorial calendar I make sure to rotate through topics about different services and funnel position.”
“In the end, you will need a larger volume of top-of-funnel, educational content to attract relevant searchers and create more opportunities for your business,” Mastri explains.
Good read: How to Create & Measure Your Content Marketing Funnel
“Don’t put yourself in a position to be the only source of idea generation,” writes Matt Solar of nDash.co. “Enable other team members or freelance subject matter experts to help you with the ideation of content marketing.”
Solar is one of the 44% of marketers who doesn’t take sole responsibility for filling their editorial calendar.
So, who should you involve in the process?
Anne Hays “asks friends and coworkers in real life” to find content ideas for BestCompany‘s editorial calendar.
Hays runs a “car shopping blog and everyone has questions or things they don’t understand about the process, whether it is financing, vehicle selection, or the actual purchase process. Then I just research to find their solutions to their real-life questions.”
However, Mary Ann Hegvold of 30degreesnorth.com recommends asking your in-house sales team: “When writing blog content, you can easily do some Google searches to see which topics are most sought after. But there could be questions out there that potential customers have that no one is answering.”
“That’s why it’s important to loop in the sales team and the customer service team as part of the editorial calendar development process. They are on the frontlines, talking to potential and current customers and answering questions.”
Hegvold continues: From your data collection process, see if there are any themes or really interesting questions that could turn into a blog post that explains a topic in-depth. THEN head to Google and see what kind of content is out there to address these topics.”
“From one of these emails or team meetings, you can often come up with several topics that can be broken down into several individual blog posts. Depending on how often you post blogs, one of these meetings can potentially fill the calendar with several months of content,” Hegvold summarizes.
Emma Valentiner always asks LeadCrunch‘s sales team for help with their editorial calendar: “Since they’re speaking with prospects and current customers every day, they know what common questions people have, what things they’re worried or excited about, and what kinds of problems they’re looking to fix.”
“A solid SEO keyword strategy is still important and will help you prioritize your content needs – but listening to your audience will enable you to finely tune your content development so that it resonates more strongly with your target audience,” Valentiner says.
Wondering what questions to ask–those which will spark content ideas you can actually add to your editorial calendar?
Shelby Rogers asks Solodev‘s team: “What are the biggest concerns or hesitations you hear from clients about our company?” and then we create content that directly answers those general questions.”
As a result, Rogers says: “We’ve created hundreds of code tutorials from questions our clients have asked about our platform. We have long-form pieces in the works that address more in-depth questions about our industry and what it takes to build a successful website.”
“As content marketers and creators, we don’t become experts in our respective fields by espousing these grand “thought leadership” ideas,” Rogers continues.
“We become experts because we show our clients we can answer their questions, be there for them, and serve as a reliable platform for their digital customer experience needs. No one cares about what you know until they know you care.”
Fancy putting this into practice?
“Look at the questions people ask you in email and website chat,” writes Chris Handy of ClosedWon.com. “Then, look at the way you responded. Now expand on that and hit publish.”
This is a major advantage: “Next time, you will not need to answer the question from scratch, and you can provide more detailed and thorough answers that keep on giving.”
9Sail‘s Bryan Pattman thinks you should be ”monitoring what your competition is doing and then figuring out a way to do it better. Allowing them to spend the time doing the research and you spend your time writing more informative content that is better for the user.”
But what exactly should you be investigating?
You should “look at their best-performing blog posts in terms of social shares and backlinks, what topics performed very well for them on their social media, and you may also get inspiration for blog topics on their YouTube channel that got a lot of engagement and views,” according to Social Catfish‘s Johnny Santiago.
*Editor’s note: Wondering where your competitors perform, SEO-wise? Grab our Moz Competitor Overview dashboard. You’ll be able to sync your Moz data to view your important information about your competitors’ SEO activity–including linking domains, Domain Authority, and Page Authority.
The topic cluster model is a content marketing strategy originally created by HubSpot.
MarketMuse‘s Stephen Jeske thinks the topic cluster content strategy is a great source of content ideas: “Start thinking about clusters of topics, as opposed to individual topics. Build out a plan that includes all the related topics that address the main issue from as many different perspectives as possible.”
“In that way, every piece of content you publish helps increase your expertise, authority, and trustworthiness,” Jeske explains.
Zach Lemmer uses this strategy to fill their editorial calendar, too: “At HIVE Digital Strategy, we use topic pillars to determine which of our services could use more content to help drive more website traffic.”
“Each topic pillar has its own set of keywords that are relevant to the topic, which allows us to optimize our search engine results and educate our client base.”
BestCompany.com‘s Carlee Linden also uses Buzzsumo because “their search feature is highly intuitive and allows you to search for topics that are trending now and you can easily see what your competitors are writing about. Plus the ability to see how well the article is trending on social media is a huge plus.”
As COFORGE‘s Eric Melillo explains: “Finding relevant topics to blog about doesn’t have to be a chore once you know where to look. So, before you write on any topic you’ll want to know if there’s an audience already searching for your content.”
“Otherwise, you might be writing for an audience of zero – and what’s the point of that?”
Just like it’s great to get opinions from your internal team, it’s smart to ask your audience directly–as PHLEARN‘s Seth Kravitz explains: “One of the easiest ways we have learned to consistently create content that is a hit with our community was to simply poll them on a regular basis about what they would like to see us cover next.”
“Community members love to be engaged and feel like they had a hand in the creation of your content. Plus, it’s a win-win for you as the brand since you create content you have verified they are going to enjoy and they are more likely to share it after you publish,” Kravitz writes.
Tim Stobierski of Pepperland Marketing also takes a look at “the same question from a number of prospects, leads, or clients over and over again, we work those questions into our editorial calendar.”
Stobierski’s team says this works for two reasons: “First, it saves us time. Instead of answering the question over and over again each time a client or prospect asks us, we can just send them a link to the blog post.”
“Second, if we’re getting the same question from multiple people who are either:
…it’s a good indicator that the topic is one that’s highly relevant to the kind of people we’re trying to attract to our site.”
Catalyst Marketing‘s Ollie Roddy adds that “not only will speaking to customers give you highly-relevant content, you can also let them know they inspired you to write the piece.”
“This will move your relationship forward and make them a part of building your business, creating an attachment to you they otherwise wouldn’t have had.”
You could get customer feedback by surveying them–a tactic used by Travis McKnight at Portent: “Polling users with one-question surveys is a quick, cost-effective way to know exactly what type of content your team should be producing.”
“You can use free tools like Google Forms and Survey Monkey to create a poll, and then promote the survey on social media platforms, your newsletter or elsewhere,” McKnight continues.
“For faster results, use a tool like Hotjar to present users with a pop-up poll while they’re actively browsing your website, or use a user research platform like Usability Hub to poll random people who align with your customer demographics.”
McKnight continues: “If you’re not sure what questions to ask, here’s an example: “If you could write about any topic for our blog, what would you choose?” This question, presented to current customers as a pop-up poll or social quiz, will spur plenty of user-focused ideas and quickly fill up your editorial calendar.”
You’ve likely already got a backlog of content.
Chhavi Agarwal of Mrs Daaku Studio has a smart trick for finding new ideas based on old content: “Go to your top performing posts and check out the comment section for ideas [because] this is the place where your actual audience is talking, asking questions and sharing the problems they face.”
“You can pick up ideas from there and fill out your editorial calendar,” Agarwal continues. “I do this regularly and it has helped me get a few viral posts. My audience love it because they told me they wanted to read it.”
Now you’re in the process of looking through old content, Anastasia Iliou of Medicare Plan Finder notes that you could use it as inspiration for new ideas: “The best way to fill your editorial calendar is to constantly update and improve your old content.”
“You can publish 1,000 words one day and then in one month realize that there are another 1,000 words on the same topic that you can add,” Iliou explains.
“The more you update, the more amazing and comprehensive your content will be. Plus, you’ll never run out of articles to add to your calendar.”
Google Search Console is a goldmine for marketers. You can see which keywords are driving traffic to your website, the average positions for each, and your average click-through rate–all free of charge.
Crimson Vine Marketing‘s Tracy Iseminger recommends using this data to keep your editorial calendar full.
“Take a deep look at the queries people are using in search that are already generating impressions under your performance tab. If a particular keyword is getting good impressions but has a low CTR, figure out how to create a blog post centered around that keyword that is relevant to your audience.”
Iseminger continues: “Answer questions built around these keywords that are already getting impressions and generate new interest in your website.”
“For instance if I see “SEO for Wineries” is getting good impressions but very little clicks, I might generate a blog post titled, “10 SEO Tips for Wineries” to build more awareness of the services we offer,” Iseminger summarizes.
Marilyn Heywood Paige does the same. For Inciting Marketing, Paige goes to Google Search Console to “find the topics people search for, for which I want to rank and for which I have the best shot at ranking.”
“I take these topics and put them into the content calendar. The first month is the topic that will be easiest for me to improve my ranking in search. The second month is the second easiest, and so on.”
*Editor’s note: View the most important Search Console data all in one place with our Google Search Console dashboard template. You can customize the dashboard with the metrics that are most important to you.
Do you have a search bar on your website?
MediaSesh‘s Christina Brodzky explains how you can use this for ideas: “When visitors are using your internal site search functionality, they are telling you exactly what they want to find and read.”
“This type of information can also assist in influencing new product ideas, services and features that you haven’t considered offering before. You can even use this information to consider adding new navigation/sub-navigation categories.”
“For example, let’s say you’re an insurance company and you noticed there’s been an unusual influx of internal searches revolving around ‘what is hurricane insurance’. Whether your company offers hurricane insurance or not, it might be a good idea to create a blog post on this topic,” Brodzky explains.
This could even be a win-win situation: “This could help reduce the number of customers that contact your call center (saving you money from having to hire support staff), possibly persuade you to add a new offering, or help to promote your other products and services.”
Keyword research is a long-standing SEO tactic.
Sandra Clayton of ConversionMinded uses “social research and keyword research to discover topics that are popular with my audience.”
“Then I filter those topics based on competition and relevance to my business. Topics that have ranking potential and pre-sell my products are the ones that make it onto my calendar.”
Geek Powered Studios‘ Matt Benevento looks at the estimated traffic volume for each keyword: “Estimated traffic will help you refine and prioritize blog topics, as well as narrow down targeted keyword sets to include in your content.”
“A well-researched keyword list will make your blog more likely to be featured in relevant, organic search results and ultimately drive more traffic.”
Benevento uses SEMRush to find estimated traffic, but says: “The more topic and keyword research you put into the foundation of a blog, the more likely you will see end results.
Jennifer Lux encourages the team at LyntonWeb to “use both Moz and Google to identify search queries that are question-based.”
“Not only has this been the direction search is moving over the last few years, it increases the chances of landing a rich snippet, which can significantly boost organic traffic. And, using common questions that personas are asking about can accelerate their journey to purchase,” Lux explains.
Megan Flanagan’s team at 609Media, on the other hand, use Answer The Public: “We have used this tool successfully to guide one of our top clients to create more engagement around their following of over 500k people.”
“In nine months, we have seen their engagement grow from 5% to 10.8% just by answering the questions that the general public is asking around popular searches.”
…But once you’ve got your list of keywords, how do you know which phrases are worth creating content for?
McCall Robison of Best Company thinks you should “fill your editorial calendar with blog topics that are based around long-tail keywords. For example, instead of relying on a broad keyword such as “home warranty,” delve further and focus on a long-tail keyword such as “home warranty complaints.”
“Researching and analyzing relevant keywords will tell you that people aren’t just wanting to know more about home warranties; they’re wanting to know about complaints that people have with home warranties, which would lead you to other long-tail keywords such as “home warranty reviews”.
“A great way to fill up your editorial calendar with highly relevant blog topics is by looking at Google related searches,” explains Jonathan Aufray’s Growth Hackers.
“Go to Google and type keywords about a topic you want to write about. Look at the related searches at the bottom. You might find some great gems and awesome ideas for your next blog posts.”
Similarly, you can use Google Trends to find content ideas.
You’ll see whether the topic is increasing or decreasing in volume, therefore understand whether it’s worth creating content for.
Steve James thinks these “Google Alerts are a very valuable resource. Delivered free to your e-mail inbox every day, you can read and understand more about breaking news, fashions and trends in your given industry.”
James notes that “a list of 5 alerts will give you 15 – 20 alerts per day that you can read, distribute, and re-engineer for your own content,” but that Google Alerts “also shows writers of and influencers within your niche that you can collect, contact and trade links and content.”
When creating content for Getsongbpm, Joe Bailey begins by “scouring Quora for Q&As can reveal plenty of questions users are asking around our niche.”
Bailey then advises to “make a list of the questions in a spreadsheet and then go deeper by using a tool such as answerthepublic.com to find sub-topics around the question to build out an in depth article.”
Josh Gallant shares the process used at Foundation Marketing:
It’s a tactic also used by Christopher Hornak of Blog Hands: “If you’re the subject matter expert you should consider going on Quora a few times a week and answering relevant questions. Then keep a list of your answers that could be used to create blog topics.”
…And Marsha Kelly of Best 4 Businesses: “On Quora.com start by searching with your niche topic keywords, then scroll through the answers, noting the ones with the greatest number of interactions and answers, then harvest tons of relevant blog post ideas your readers will love.”
But can you do this outside of Quora?
The short answer is yes.
When we polled our pool of experts, social media was ranked as the fourth-most frequent method for coming up with new blog topics:
Twitter is one of those tools that you use everday, but probably don’t make the most out of.
Sky Alphabet Social Media‘s Steve Yanor thinks you could use find content ideas through it by mastering “Twitter’s search feature which is a bit arcane.”
“If you’ve ever delved into the next level of Google searches using search modifiers such as “inurl:” or “site:”. Twitter offers similar capabilities, it’s just that no one ever talks about them.”
Yanor puts this into practice:
“This list is a great starting point because people on your new keto diet Twitter list will often post content related to other sources mentioning keto diets. Add those people, too,” Yanor continues.
“Before long, you’ll have more content than you know what to do with, so you can be selective about what it new, relevant and smart to incorporate into your calendar.”
Content Cucumber‘s Kristine Cameron agrees, but thinks you should expand your approach to the whole of social media: “Any social media platform will show you what your followers are currently talking about, any common problems your clients are facing, and other popular trends related to your business.”
“You may also interact directly with your audience to ask them what they would personally like to read about,” Cameron explains.
Duckpin‘s Andrew Clark follows a similar concept–only this time, Clark looks at the trend of each topic: “Each month my team and I begin by having a brainstorming session where we list out upcoming holidays that could be tied back to digital marketing.”
“A great resource to help streamline this process and provide inspiration has been Sprout Social’s Hashtag Holidays calendar. An example of this coming to life is our recent post titled “May the Source Be With You: 4 Ways Google Analytics Helps Your Business,” which was inspired by the popular holiday of May 4th aka Star Wars Day.”
Chantelle Stevenson of ClearPivot does the same: “For an e-commerce client that we have, we like to pull out national holiday calendars and relevant news articles that pertain to the topics that are planned to be covered each month.”
“Very often, national holidays or special days coincide with different sale items or recipes that are archived and provide methods for fresh content that can be covered in a fun way,” Stevenson says.
“To generate ideas I look at the calendar to see if there are any natural opportunities based on the season or activities like taxes, graduation, holidays and also keep a running list of topics I get asked about by my clients and other business owners,” explains Mavens & Moguls‘ Paige Arnof-Fenn.
“If you take note when you read or hear about something new you might want to explore further, a trend, theme or idea that catches your attention, an issue that affects your business then it is likely to be a topic that impacts others too. “
To make the most out of this opportunity, Seniorly‘s team use a tactic called #hashtagholidays.
Andrew Barrett explains: “We review Twitter trending top 10 in the US every morning and make note of the hashtag holidays that pop up every day. For instance, did you know yesterday, May 28th, was #NationalHamburgerDay?”
Barrett notes “there are plenty of resources online that can alert you well in advance of these more humorous and sometimes huge social trending holidays. So, if you don’t have the bandwidth to create content in real time when they appear on the Twitter top 10 list that day, you can rely on these other resources that will estimate all of these holidays.”
You’ve probably thought about guest posting on other websites to build your authority. These experts think you should be one of the 57% of business bloggers who outsource posts from contributed content:
“If you have the interest from your audience, it’s highly effective to create a guest author program,” writes Clutch‘s Riley Panko. “Many people are game for creating high-quality articles for other websites for the brand exposure and SEO benefits.”
However, Panko’s advice comes with a warning: “You should be careful to thoroughly vet and edit any guest author articles to ensure they match your brand voice, contain truly original and accurate content, and will help you meet your marketing goals.”
“While this does take up significant time, it can still be more time efficient than writing the articles yourself,” Panko explains.
Deciding to open a guest blogging program?
Codal‘s Sean McGowan has some words of advice: “If you’re going to be allowing guest posts, or your blog is solely contributor-based, come up with a few general topics you’d like to feature, then reach out to your writers roster and see who’s interested in writing about them.”
“You’ll find many of them already have strong opinions and ideas on these topics, and likely even a few more focused ideas and pitches in mind,” McGowan explains. “It’s a great way to get the calendar filled up with all sorts of creative and unique ideas.”
“We love interviewing our customers and the people who inspire us,” says Vrinda Singh of Paperform. “They don’t have to be executives or “influencers”; we genuinely just love talking to people who have mastered their craft and have something valuable to share with our community.”
(It’s a tactic we use at Databox, too. We interviewed the experts we’ve featured here, and bundled their answers into this mega post.)
Singh continues: “Once we interview them, we either decide to publish the entire interview as it is or we decide to incorporate it within a larger story and use their responses as examples of real life wins.”
The Paperform team have “had great success with both strategies, with our posts regularly being shared and upvoted by readers on curation platforms like Growth Hackers, Designer News and Web Designer News.”
“Ultimately, we’ve come to realise that readers enjoy real stories – whether those are about success, failure or lessons. Readers would much rather hear about strategies that actually worked out in real scenarios, as opposed to generic, one-size-fits-all “best practices”,” Singh summarizes.
Perficient‘s James Gardner does the same thing, noting that their team have “had terrific success reaching out to industry thought leaders and asking for brief interviews that I publish on our website.”
Gardner thinks this is a win-win situation: “The [thought leaders] are flattered to be interviewed and love the opportunity to share their perspectives on industry trends, recent successes/challenges, etc. My readers love “meeting” these high profile experts and learning what’s on their minds.”
…That’s a tough question to answer. The best option often depends on how often you publish new content.
So, how often should you publish new blog posts? For the majority of marketers, that’s several times a week:
The team at Colibri Digital Marketing “used to decide on an editorial calendar eight to twelve months in advance, every time we had cause to refresh our keyword research.”
Andrew McLoughlin says: “Put simply, it wasn’t the best system. It didn’t allow us to dynamically react to new information, questions, industry changes, and so on as quickly as we would have liked.”
“Our solution was to plan out one post per week based on our keywords, but leave one or two other posts as wildcards which we would come up with on the fly.”
“That way, we always something concrete to fall back on (and a wealth of future ideas to borrow in slower weeks) but we were always encouraging ourselves to keep our ears to the ground to come up with the next topic, usually with a pretty quick turnaround. We had the benefits of both stability and dynamic response,” McLoughlin explains.
Brimming with ideas of content you could add to your editorial calendar?
All that’s left to do is start researching and fill in the blanks with topics your audience are interested in.
As Pointy‘s Lisa Sills says: “Ultimately, everything you create has to pass the “who cares?” litmus test. You can have all the data in the world but if what you’re creating isn’t interesting, no one is going to be interested.”
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