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Content strategy
Before the calendar, decide what deserves a place in it.
what we’re really solving
The job I can help with
A team can publish regularly and still struggle to explain what the content is doing. I start with the business priorities and the questions your audience needs answered.
Then we choose themes, formats, and a pace your team can support. Existing pieces get a look too: what to keep, improve, connect, or stop repeating.
what’s in the folder
What you can expect
- Review of current content and audience questions
- Content themes linked to business priorities
- Prioritised editorial calendar
- Reusable brief templates and channel guidance
- A review framework using the goals and data available
Final scope agreed before we start.
from first conversation to final full stop
How it comes together
We review existing content, business needs, and useful customer or performance information.
We choose the themes and formats the team can realistically sustain.
I turn the direction into briefs, a calendar, and a way to review progress.
We agree the scope
and price first.
Timing & investment
A fixed quote based on the pieces, research, and review involved. We agree on the deliverables, revision rounds, and schedule before work begins.
Talk through the scopegood things to know
A few questions
Is the calendar the whole service?
It is one output. The audience, purpose, and priorities give the calendar its direction.
Can our team do the writing?
Yes. The briefs and guidance are designed for your team to use. Writing can also be added to the scope.
What if we have limited data?
Customer questions, sales conversations, existing content, and business priorities are useful starting material. We choose measures you can realistically track.
the evidence is in the writing
Read the kind of work this calls for.

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04 / Your turn
What should the next piece actually do?
Tell me what the team is publishing and what you want it to help with.
Talk through the brief

