2019 Content Marketing Trends

2019 Content Marketing Trends

Hey Everyone,

Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!

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1. 2019 Content Trends Gleaned from 160+ Sales Calls

There’s a common challenge in the content marketing world that creates some friction between content creators and their managers. The creators are heads-down working on new content while the managers wait impatiently for results. One party sees trees, the other sees a forest. The result is dissatisfaction on both sides.

I’ve run 168 sales calls over the 18 months or so and had the chance to hear both sides of this story. Here are some things I’ve observed.

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2. Ideas That Changed My Life

Yes, this is another Morgan Housel post but it’s too good not to share.

Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. People believe what they’ve seen happen exponentially more than what they read about has happened to other people, if they read about other people at all. We’re all biased to our own personal history. Everyone. If you’ve lived through hyperinflation, or a 50% bear market, or were born to rich parents, or have been discriminated against, you both understand something that people who haven’t experienced those things never will, but you’ll also likely overestimate the prevalence of those things happening again, or happening to other people.

3. Here are few cool job openings:

You can check out more job listings in my Slack channel and even chat with the people hiring.

4. Tweet of the Week

I’ve found this heuristic to be helpful and I hope others do too.

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5. Random Links

Have a great weekend!

Jimmy

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