How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? We can tell from traffic the answer is “sometimes” for many of you. The daily alert went to my work inbox, which I monitored on the weekend only for urgent communications. Our new publishing frequency Instead of posting to the blog every day of the week, we’re moving to a Monday through Friday schedule. Now, you’ll also get a digest of the other content published that week. Doing as we say, now as we do For years, Joe has encouraged companies to get strategic about their publishing frequency decisions. CMI Editorial Strategy Advisor Michele Linn led the charge in asking questions about our publishing frequency – the same questions all content marketers should think about: Are we publishing the right amount for our audience? And the extra time in our schedules will help us further optimize our best articles to make sure people can find them through search. Days attracting most email signups We didn’t want to jeopardize the growth of our subscriber list, so we checked those numbers carefully. We work Monday through Friday (most of the time) just as most of you do, so the need for time to pause and reflect resonates.
How often do you read the weekend posts on Content Marketing Institute the day they’re published? We can tell from traffic the answer is “sometimes” for many of you.
Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. The daily alert went to my work inbox, which I monitored on the weekend only for urgent communications. Most of the time, as valuable as the CMI articles are, they didn’t qualify as urgent.
Instead, like many of you, I reviewed them when my attention shifted back to work.
So, it should come as good news that starting this month we’ll help free up your inbox on the weekends.
Our new publishing frequency
Instead of posting to the blog every day of the week, we’re moving to a Monday through Friday schedule. Our daily alerts will continue to land in subscribers’ inboxes every weekday morning, but we’ll leave space on the weekends for you to pause and reflect.
Some of you might be wondering about two weekend stalwarts – the PNR: This Old Marketing podcast and the Content Strategy for Marketers newsletter.
Following the send-off episode on Dec. 11, PNR goes on hiatus. If you read A Content Marketing Love Letter, you know that CMI founder and PNR co-host Joe Pulizzi is setting off for some well-earned family time in early 2018 and “non-marketing writing projects (and other shenanigans)” thereafter.
If you subscribe to the Content Strategy for Marketing newsletter, you should have received the revamped version in your inbox today. You still got an exclusive column from Chief Strategy Advisor Robert Rose and a link to our latest content strategy article. Now, you’ll also get a digest of the other content published that week.
Doing as we say, now as we do
For years, Joe has encouraged companies to get strategic about their publishing frequency decisions.
Attendees of Content Marketing World 2017 heard Jay Baer explain “how to get promoted by creating less content, not more.” (You can read about strategic changes made subsequently to the publishing schedule at Jay’s company, Convince and Convert.)
And just a few weeks ago, in PNR Episode 207, Joe and Robert talked about the latest research from Orbit Media, which shows a decline in publishing frequency (and an increase in post length) among individual bloggers.
In the podcast, Joe points out that companies like About.com are getting great results…
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