Ryan Law
Recent articles
Strategy
Content Arbitrage: Shopping at the Thrift Shop of Ideas
The core risk of content marketing is creating something that nobody cares about. You pour time and energy into a topic that your audience ignores. You focus on the wrong angle. You take a bet, and...
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8 min read
01/25/22
Writing
The Problem with “Writing is Thinking”
Writing is an incredible tool for furthering your own understanding. It challenges you to articulate ideas in a coherent way. It highlights gaps in your logic. It functions like an analytical...
Ryan Law
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9 min read
11/24/21
Writing
The Four Forces of Bad Content
Most blog posts suffer from the same problem: they feel like content marketing. The reader is never allowed to forget that what they’re reading is, first and foremost, a marketing asset.This is...
Ryan Law
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15 min read
09/22/21
Strategy
The Search Singularity: How to Win in the Era of Infinite...
Weird things happen in the heart of a black hole.Huge stars collapse under the strength of their own gravity to become one-dimensional points. Spacetime reaches infinite curvature. Matter is...
Ryan Law
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14 min read
08/03/21
Strategy
You’re a Content Marketer, Not a Writer
Most content marketers have a “writer brain.” It’s the part of them that appreciates beautiful, clever writing. It’s instilled in them by years of reading fiction, writing essays, and aspiring to...
Ryan Law
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9 min read
04/29/21
Writing
Persuasive Writing In Three Steps: Thesis, Antithesis,...
Great writing persuades. It persuades the reader that your product is right for them, that your process achieves the outcome they desire, that your opinion supersedes all other opinions.But spend...
Ryan Law
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9 min read
04/14/21
Podcasts
Hyper-Competitive Content Marketing With Buffer’s Ash...
Ash Read, Editorial Director at Buffer, talks through: how to compete in an industry saturated by content marketing; finding your unique differentiator; the power of brand and vision in content;...
AI, Twitter Marketing & The Creator Economy with Blake...
Blake Emal, Chief Marketing Officer at Copy.ai, explains how AI can help small content teams, how to get great at Twitter marketing, and why Copy.ai encourages its team to embrace side projects.
Product-Led Content & Thinking Like a Strategist with...
Dr. Fio Dossetto, editor-in-chief of contentfolks and former Senior Editor at Hotjar, talks through “product-led” content, writing search content without becoming a copycat, and levelling-up your...