Chris Karl
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The Most Expensive Sentence in Marketing
Your marketing may be explaining your product perfectly while still leaving customers with an important unanswered question: Why should I care?
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When Expertise Gets Lost in Translation
Most communication problems don’t come from a lack of expertise but from having so much of it that you forget what it’s like to be new.
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What Is Your Content Supposed to Do? (And How To Figure It Out)
Businesses tend to pick their content formats first and figure out the point later. Spoiler: there isn’t one. But what if you reverse-engineered the whole process?
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9 Practitioners on the Worst Content Advice They Ever Followed
Content advice doesn’t come with a warning label, but maybe it should. Nine industry indsiders share their cautionary tales.
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The Unwritten Rules of Thought Leadership (According to People Who’ve Built It)
Anyone can publish. Not everyone has something to say. Seven practitioners on what separates the two and what it really costs to close that gap.
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Why Your Blog Feels Useless and 7 Things That Are Probably Broken
Does your blog feel like busywork instead of a business asset? Something deeper in the structure could be quietly holding it back.
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The Misconception That Your Brand Has Nothing to Say
If I had a dollar from every brand that told me, “We know we need content, but we have nothing to write about,” your next coffee would be on me.
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How To Project Brand Authority as a New Player
Startups don’t get to walk into a market with years of credibility behind them. So how do founders build authority while the receipts are still catching up?
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Using Founder-Led Content To Build Trust Without Building Dependency
Founder-led content is “all the rage,” as the kids used to say. But what do real-life founders say about what works and what ultimately falls flat on its face?
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How Often Should You Publish Content?
Publishing frequency isn’t universal. But do you need the entire Dothraki army assembling your content calendar to make a splash? Spoiler Alert: Not in this game.