{"id":4251,"date":"2020-02-13T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2020-03-07T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:12:54","slug":"content-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/content-for-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Content for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/reforge\/\">Reforge<\/a> published this piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAB90R8BfqyyUOFNIQJYTN1yOuqQZTKKQxI\/\">Lauren Bass<\/a> on what growth practitioners in top companies are reading and I wrote about the list they shared few weeks back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>There is not running away from the fact that there is a lot more content out there than we can possibly consume. Even sifting through is a major challenge. While 300% more content, with 100% longer by word count, sharing of content has decreased by 90% in the past two years &#8211; the piece quotes a Profit well study.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07155859\/410.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07155859\/410.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07155859\/410.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07155859\/410.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Diagram from original article in Reforge Blog<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So what do you do when channel saturation is the reality?  <br>1. Focus as much on the format as the topic <br>2. Barriers to entry and usability drives content engagement <br>3. Dark Social has replaced broadcast sharing\u201d &#8211; writes Lauren.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Content is part of your growth strategy this quick read could be vital.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this #410 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What Growth People at Top Companies (actually) Read <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reforge.com\/blog\/growth-reads-content-marketing-saturation\">https:\/\/www.reforge.com\/blog\/growth-reads-content-marketing-saturation<\/a> <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reforge published this piece by Lauren Bass on what growth practitioners in top companies are reading and I wrote about the list they shared few weeks back.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/content-for-growth\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-sales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-16z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}