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In 2024 to date, 412 tech companies have laid off more than 134,000 employees. Some of it is due to AI taking over jobs formerly done by humans. Other layoffs are the result of the obsession with “efficiency” (read: cost-cutting to promote shareholder value) that has lately consumed the industry. Laid-off content marketing writers and editors…
The two biggest roadblocks to generative AI usage are often how to create prompts that get the desired results faster, and finding ways to use AI that can help you and your team do more. That’s what makes prompt libraries such a game changer for organizations looking to use AI. Prompt libraries are carefully crafted…
You’ve worked hard to build your business—and your brand represents its reputation and its promise. And as important as logos, fonts, graphic styles, and color palettes are, your brand is about more than just these visual elements. Your brand begins with the messaging you want to convey to your audience, and the voice you communicate…
Growth marketing has become one of the few bright spots in marketing of 2024. It’s a rapidly growing discipline: Companies that are otherwise shedding jobs are doubling down on go-to-market and growth. Content distribution is increasingly competitive—it takes much more effort to find the right marketing channels to get eyeballs on your content. Among the…
Crafting compelling content without a clear picture of your intended audience is like shouting into the void. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: To create impactful content, you’ve got to know who you’re writing for (and why), so you can tailor your message for maximum impact, engagement, and retention. Understanding your people…
As Wordsmithie kicks off our new AI newsletter, The Big A.I.dea, I wanted to share our agency’s AI origin story. Although we’d been toying with AI for several years (including building our own walled garden with GPT-3), the “big bang” for generative AI came on the last day of November 2022, with OpenAI’s public release…
Although most people are now familiar with the concept of using GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney to create written content and images respectively, the rise of AI video generation hasn’t had quite the same impact in the mainstream. And there’s a good reason for that. Historically, AI-generated video just…wasn’t very good. In a previous…
What are some fresh and unique content ideas for a video, a white paper, or a blog post? And how can you and your team, amid your busy working life, come up with them? We’ve talked before about some of the tips and tricks of the writing trade, and how to cut through the noise…
As marketers, we know that dreaming up short, punchy marketing slogans is just as difficult as churning out well-researched long-form copy. The fewer the words, the more impactful they need to be, which is why brand positioning can be so darn tricky. Slogan creation is an integral part of brand identity, so whatever you come…
The Earth’s population has just topped 8 billion people—and 7 billion of those people are writing content online. Or so it seems. With newsletters, Substacks, blog posts, tech manuals, long-form copy, and threads on social media, there’s a lot of copywriting competition out there. Your company’s brilliant content has to fight for attention with influencer…
