Brief the next blog post

Creative briefing is the most important part of the content production process. It’s the key thing you need to get good at when transitioning from your founder doing all of your writing, to outsourcing and scaling content marketing with freelancers. With a bad creative brief your writer will spend far too much time on research and coming up with new angles, which they will find naturally a lot harder to do, not being involved with the company or industry full time. If you write good creative briefs, that spell out the approach to take, you can focus their efforts on delivery, saving yourself time and money.

There is no one standard template for creative briefs, but one of the first things to do is select your primary and secondary keywords. For SEO purposes it’s important that there is just one blog post on each topic on your website, because Google likes there to be one definitive answer to give someone searching on that topic. Related to that keyword there are usually 5-10 secondary keywords that don’t have as much search traffic, but should be included within the post, sometimes as headlines. Most importantly you should review the search results page and brainstorm what creative angles you can take that are different from what’s already ranking, and better to some segment of the audience. Finally write an outline of bullet points to give direction on how you are picturing the topic could be tackled.