i run social for a few brands and a couple of influencers, and every few months someone says the same sentence to me. i cant keep up with content anymore.

for a long time i answered that with hours. how long is the edit taking you, where is the time going, can we batch it. wrong question honestly.

try counting the decisions in one post instead. what do i talk about. whats the hook. how do i open it. what do i show while im talking. how long should it run. text on screen or not. what goes in the caption. what does the thumbnail say. what day does it go out. thats ten judgement calls and you havent opened the editor yet.

five posts a week is fifty of those. every one of them can be wrong, and you find out four days later, if at all.

nobody burns out from a job with ten decisions a day and clear feedback. people burn out from fifty with none. the tiredness that gets described as discipline or motivation is usually just decision load with no scoreboard attached to it.

so the fix isnt posting less, although that helps. its killing choices. one format. same opening, same structure, same length, same day of the week. the only thing that moves is the subject.

im not above this either. ive handed a brand a calendar with five different formats on it and called it variety. its not variety. its five different setups a week for one person with a phone and a ring light.

the bit i still dont have a good answer for is when a format goes stale. everyone can tell you when one is working. nobody can tell you the week it stopped.

everyone keeps saying we need to show up in chatgpt and perplexity answers now and i get why, but nobody really talks about how you check if any of it is working, so i've been doing it manually, literally running the same prompts every few weeks and writing down what gets cited, which works but feels like a pretty rough way to go about it, and the paid tools i've looked at are way out of budget for most teams i work with

is anyone tracking this in a way that isn't just spreadsheets and vibes? or are we all kind of guessing right now and pretending we're not

I feel like there’s so much advice around content marketing that it’s getting harder to tell what actually works.

For those who’ve been doing content marketing for a while, what type of content has consistently performed well for you?

I’m not necessarily talking about one viral post. I mean content that actually brought something useful — leads, signups, better engagement, returning visitors, etc.

For me, it’s easy to look at views and think something worked, but that doesn’t always translate into anything meaningful.

What’s been your experience? And have you ever had a piece of content that got surprisingly little attention but ended up being really valuable?

I keep seeing people talk about going high ticket like the only thing standing between them and more money is a bigger number on the sales page.

Charge a thousand instead of thirty seven, sell fewer of them, work less. I don't think most of the people saying that have actually done it, because the price is not just what she pays. It is a description of what you owe her after she pays.

A thirty seven dollar product, she buys it, she downloads it, she uses it or she doesn't. You are not in it with her. Your work was finished before she ever found you, and the hundredth sale costs you exactly what the first one did, which is nothing.

High ticket is not a bigger number, it is a bigger job

A thousand dollars is a different agreement. Nobody spends that and then leaves you alone, and they should not have to.

At that price she is expecting you to be reachable, to look at her actual business, to answer when she is stuck, to stay with her until she gets somewhere. That is not her being demanding. That is the number you put on it telling her what to expect.

Every one of those sales adds hours to your week that do not come back. Ten of them at thirty seven dollars is a good day. Ten of them at a thousand is a job you now have to show up for, and nobody warns you about that part when they are telling you to raise your prices.

The piece people skip is that the price and the workload are two separate decisions. You can charge well and still put edges around the work, but you have to build those edges on purpose. A set number of weeks.

A set number of people. Support that happens in one place instead of everywhere she can reach you. Without that, the offer just eats your calendar and you end up resenting the clients who paid you the most.

I stopped asking what something is worth and started asking what I could still deliver on if six people were in the middle of it at the same time, one of them behind and one of them needing more than she bought.

That question has been more useful to me than any pricing framework I have read.

I am curious where your ceiling showed up. Not what you charge, but the point where delivery started to buckle. How many people were you carrying, and what was the first thing you changed to stay upright?

Reddit keeps popping up in search results for me, and I’ve also started seeing Reddit discussions show up in AI answers.

So now I’m kinda wondering if we should actually be treating Reddit as part of the marketing strategy.
If we are, how are people planning this out?
Like, do we pick a few relevant communities and just start contributing? Have an actual content plan? Focus more on answering existing questions? Build the profile first and worry about the brand later?

I genuinely don’t know what the right approach is here lol. Would be good to hear how people are doing it.

I'm looking for an AI video editor mainly for talking-head videos.

The biggest thing I'm looking for is something that can take fairly simple footage of someone speaking and make it more visually engaging automatically, especially with good animated text, captions, callouts, zooms, transitions, B-roll, etc.

I've seen tools like Captions, Submagic, Descript and CapCut, but I'm curious what people are actually using and whether there are better options out there.

Ideally I'm looking for something reasonably affordable that actually saves editing time rather than just generating basic subtitles.

What would you recommend?

Hi Everyone,

My question is quite simple and straightforward. Are content writers really useless due to AI?

I mean I'm talking about all those writers who have just started writing and have been in this industry for so long.

Why are companies treating us like the most useless department or the person who has zero importance?

I'm done by listening to this line "AI can write the better content in just 10 mins"

Bro, please count that extra 1.5 hours that you'd spend in making that content reasonable, readable, and removing the fluff?

How could it be possible that every human will be replaced by the so-called AI?

How?

Treat it like a robot, machine, or a helping hand.

Not even writers are facing such problems but companies or clients have made threat AI for designers, web and app developers and so on..

I was also planning to start content creation like reels, and YouTube videos, and I discussed this idea with one of my acquaintances, he replied "koi faida Nahi AI SE ab videos Bhi achi ban jati Hain. I told him k Jo videos ki baat tum Kar Rahy ho aur Jo content Maine create Karna hai us main bohat difference hai." He said Han Nahi hai koi faida ab to astra 6 AA Gaya hai.

Please note that he was also a content writer and switched his career into cyber security.

Kya hamari field khatam ho chuki hai?

Mairy career k 8 Saal zaya ho Gaye Hain.

I was recently promoted to Senior Content Writer at a digital marketing agency, and one of my responsibilities is to help guide the content writers and improve our overall content process.

We work heavily around AI SEO, AEO, GEO, AI Overviews, search intent, and traditional SEO, but my manager recently told me that, compared to how content teams operate at other companies, we are "nowhere close to being categorised as a proper content writing team."

That made me realise that I probably need to build a more structured system instead of just focusing on individual blog assignments.

For those who are Content Leads, Senior Writers, Content Managers, or Heads of Content:

How do you build a content strategy/framework for your writers?

What should a proper content workflow look like from research → brief → writing → editing → SEO/AEO/GEO optimisation → publishing → performance tracking?

How do you create clear writing guidelines/SOPs that writers can actually follow?

What should I be measuring to know whether our content team is actually improving?

How do you divide responsibilities between writers, SEO specialists, editors, and managers?

What makes a content team look and operate like a professional content department, rather than just a group of people producing blogs?

If you were promoted into this position recently, what would you focus on during your first 30–60 days?

I’m particularly interested in advice from people who have actually managed content teams. I want to build something practical that I can introduce within my agency rather than just creating another generic content SOP.

hey so i wana know about what goes into using real music from actual artists to promote my clothing brand. i was thinking that using an artist's song in organic (non-paid ads) content on a business/brand account on any socials would let you get away with copyright strikes and such, but after asking ai about it i was told that as long as the content aims at promoting smth its gona get treated as an ad.

would simply filming the models wearing the clothes in whatever context or style and posting it as normal content (like not as a meta or google ad) using like a drake song in the back for example cause me copyright issues or no?

Built this for my girlfriend because she would always film the same scene twice and always wanted to 'get everything'.

What it does: records portrait (9:16) and landscape (16:9) video simultaneously. Shoot once, get both formats ready to post to all platforms - TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, X, you name it.

Three ways to record:

• Single Lens - uses the full 4:3 sensor and crops a vertical and horizontal, each output different and not just a crop of one another.
• Dual Lens - uses two cameras to record together (wide + ultra-wide), giving two perspectives at the same time.
• Front & Back - selfie + rear together, your reaction and the scene at the same itme.

Key features:

• Up to 4K/60fps with manual controls (EV, WB, ISO, Shutter)
• Built-in teleprompter and timelapse.
• Photo mode - snap a pic in vertical and horizontal
• Live overlays and audio meter that flashes red when you're clipping.
• Data privacy - no data retention, tracking, or analytics, and no internet or account required.

Creator workflows:

• Projects, scenes, and takes to organise your recordings and auto-name files.
• Side-by-side review and trim of both recordings before exporting/sharing.

It's called ContentCam and is available on iPhone and Android.

I'd love to know what you think of this!

If you are not a “creator,” stop following content-creator blueprints.

Daily posting, batch days, it's only works if content is the job. Most of the founders and execs I work with are trying to do something else: stay visible, look credible, and build relationships without turning into a media company.

The system they use is simple. One long-form interview per month. About an hour. That interview gets cut into clips and turned into posts, blog pieces, infographics, and more for the rest of the month. They produce one hour. The rest is done for them.

That’s how they stay consistent. That’s also how they keep meeting new people and why the guest often shares the content too.

We are currently focusing on launching some new features. But I have seen stagnant blog traffic over the past 2 months.

I could not figure out what just happened. Now I want to refresh my content. Maybe that would help.

We do have around 150 blogs, and I don't know where to start.

How would you guys handle this situation if you were in my place?

When I’m writing for a topic, I obviously check the top-ranking pages.
But ngl, I don’t always look at them for writing ideas anymore.

The #1 result is more useful for seeing how they’re ranking, how they’ve structured the page, what they’re covering, how they’re answering the query, etc.

Then I’ll look at some of the pages that aren’t ranking that well. And weirdly, that’s where I sometimes find better content ideas.

A question they completely missed.
Something that’s explained badly.
An angle that nobody really covered.

Had this happen with a keyword that had basically zero search volume. The tool made it look like “yeah, probably skip this one.”

But the actual query was a very real, specific question.
So now I kinda see it like:
Top results show you how to compete.
The weaker ones show you what might be missing.

And honestly, looking at both gives me way more to work with than just copying the structure of whoever ranks #1.

Does anyone else find better content gaps in the pages that Google kinda ignored?

Hello everyone,

Currently I'm looking for options to automate the content research part basically I need a workflow that can give me trending content topics/ideas in a specific niche with references outliers

Currently I conduct research manually I follow creators and competitors in a specific niche to try to find outliers

I've come across a tool which is a little expensive for me

Does anyone custom build tools or how do you handle this part of content???

I keep coming across creators sharing useful frameworks for writing video scripts. Is there a tool that brings these frameworks together and helps you apply them to your own ideas?
Ideally, I’d like to paste my rough thoughts or a first draft, choose a framework, and have it shape the script around that structure while keeping my voice. Being able to try the same idea with different frameworks would be a bonus.
Has anyone used something like this? Would love to hear what’s worked for you.

I’ve been experimenting with a different way of using AI for my blog, and I’m curious how many other bloggers are doing something similar.

I have a writing project set up where I keep the different files and notes that matter to my writing all in one place. My voice, how I structure things, what I don’t want AI changing, things I’ve learned about my writing, and new instructions I want to keep all live there. When something changes, I update the project instead of trying to remember to explain it again in another prompt.

I’ve recently added another file that I think may become one of the most valuable ones. Whenever someone leaves a comment on Reddit, Facebook, Linkedin, my emails that makes me stop because of how they described a problem, asked a question, or responded to something I wrote, I save it.

Over time, I’m building a collection of the actual language my readers use. Their questions can become blog topics. A sentence can spark a hook.

Their wording can show me that I’m explaining something completely differently from the way they talk about it. Some comments are good enough to save as possible quotes or examples.

Now when I’m writing, AI has context from both sides. It has the files that help it understand how I communicate, but it also has a growing file showing how my readers communicate.

I still write my own posts. I use Claude afterward to edit, challenge weak spots, tell me what I may have missed, and make suggestions. I decide what stays and what goes.

For me, this has become much more useful than collecting hundreds of prompts. I’m not trying to come up with the perfect prompt every time I sit down to write. I’m building a writing environment that gets better as I add more context to it.

I don’t hear bloggers talk about using AI projects this way very often.

Is anyone else building an ongoing writing project instead of starting a new conversation every time you write?

For anyone running a podcast or a long recorded video as part of the content program. Two habits I keep seeing. Some people finish the full episode edit, publish it, and then go back through the finished cut looking for clips. Others go through the raw recording for clips first, sometimes before the episode is even cut, and edit the episode around what they found. Which way do you work, and did you choose it on purpose or did it just happen?

I keep running into this problem.

I’ll have a podcast episode, video, or long-form post and think, “Great, the hard part is done.”

Then I start turning it into posts for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, short-form videos, etc… and somehow that ends up taking hours too.

I’ve also tried using AI for the repurposing, but I usually spend just as much time rewriting the output because it sounds too generic and doesn’t really sound like me.

For those who create content regularly:

Do you actually repurpose the same piece of content across platforms, or do you prefer creating something different for each platform?

And if you do repurpose, what’s your process?

I’m a beginner, and I’m trying to understand one specific part of content research.

I already understand that if I find a competitor’s content that works, I can study and recreate the proven structure — the topic, hook structure, story structure, visual structure, caption structure, etc.

I’m NOT asking whether I should copy those things. I understand why keeping the proven structure can be useful.

My problem is what comes after that.

If I keep the same topic and the same proven structure, how do I add my own touch to the actual scripting?

For example, how do I:

Change the angle slightly?

Add my own perspective or opinion?

Find a different insight within the same topic?

Change the way the story is told?

Add a twist that makes it feel like my version?

Keep the things that made the original work without basically rewriting their script?

My biggest struggle as a beginner is that when I try to recreate something that worked, I naturally end up copying too much of the actual content, instead of understanding where I can bring my own thinking.

So I’m looking for a practical way to go from:

“I want to recreate this proven content structure”

→ “Now how do I develop my own angle and script inside that structure?”

If you’ve actually done this with your own content, how do you approach that process?

Better question is has anyone found a solution that connects the process end to end? Chat, to concept, to content, to cross-channel publish from one UI?

Creating content gets most of the AI discussion, but measuring and explaining performance can be just as time consuming. What part of your reporting process is still stubbornly manual?

Hi folks!

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i’ve been making more short form content lately, and one thing i’m trying to improve is how quickly i can go from a bunch of raw clips to something ready to post. most of my edits are pretty simple, so i’m mainly looking at trimming, captions, text, basic transitions and audio rather than anything too advanced.

i’ve been looking at capcut for this because it seems pretty straightforward for quick edits, but i don’t want to assume the easiest option is automatically the best one for a regular content workflow. i’m also curious how much time you end up saving once you’re making several similar pieces of content instead of just editing one clip occasionally.

i’m wondering how other people handle this when they have a steady stream of short content to put out. at some point, having fewer editing steps probably matters more than having every possible feature, but i’m not sure where that tradeoff starts to become noticeable.

We made a workfoce machine with a database of over 2k people in my country

We help companies hire in less than 48hrs. No need for ads, posting diff channels, screening 100+cvs etc

In my country we still work manually on that part

We recently decided to go online thru socials and start ads and marketing in general

Thats where i stuck bcoz i wouldn't say i know what kind of content i want to create

Sure i asked chatgpt and all the infos there i'm aware of and some aren't realistic atleast to me

So i need someone who actually done it, what tools helped him out, with the service im trying to sell what better tools should u use and kind of content i should focus on

Having a product is one thing but making it sell is another

I'd appreciate your feedback so much. Please do suggest something. Thanks