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    How to Keep Your Organization’s Content Discoverable in the Age of AI Search

    How people find information, including your site’s content, is changing—fast. AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity AI’s Deep Research, and Grok DeepSearch are redefining the way we search, summarize, and discover content. Being a “power searcher” used to mean knowing your Boolean operators. Now, it means knowing how to ask an AI to…

  • Develop a Strong Newsletter Strategy with these Survey Questions

    Email newsletters provide a vital way for your organization to sidestep the whims of social media and search platforms and connect directly with your audiences. To ensure you’re giving readers the content they want to see, you need to develop a clear picture of their interests. This tipsheet provides actual questions you can ask your…

  • How to Build a Strategic Planning Roadmap and Revamp Your Website

    Does this sound familiar? You are in a deadline-focused organization and the work to maintain and improve your website is ruled by the tyranny of the urgent. You’re constantly in reactive mode, responding to bugs, maintenance issues, and urgent feature requests. As a result, seizing opportunities to build greater value into your website go unexplored…

  • Avoid the Social Media Shell Game by Prioritizing Your Newsletter Strategy

    Attempting to build and maintain your audience as a digital publisher is like trying to walk on unstable ground. You rely on social media and search to drive users to your website, but the status of these platforms is constantly evolving. From ownership changes to black-box algorithms and the changing tastes of users, every platform…

  • Why is Protecting Accessibility So Hard for News Media Organizations?

    The challenges faced by news outlets and their teams are well documented: vanishing print subscriptions, limited ad revenue, the domineering whims of search and social media, and doing more reporting with fewer resources. Maybe these are all too real for you and your organization. But one topic rarely explored is the connection between these challenges…

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    4 questions to ask when there are tech leadership shifts in your publishing organization

    In any organization, and in the publishing industry in particular, staff changes are not a matter of if but when. Team transitions, whether due to top down restructuring or voluntary attrition, can easily disrupt your digital platform. Our newest eBook offers strategies to ensure smooth operations and continued growth during leadership shifts.  In it, we…

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    3 issues that are torching your digital revenue

    Many business leaders in the publishing industry find themselves caught in a paradox. They recognize that their technology needs to meet their business goals, yet the lack of digital performance is the very reason they hesitate to invest in a redesign. It feels imprudent to invest when you’re not generating revenue. This hesitation comes at…

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    4 digital danger zones publishing companies can’t ignore

    There are many signs that your website has reached its breaking point — some more obvious than others. While integrating new tech like a paywall can lay bare obvious weaknesses in your technology, it’s often a pileup of smaller issues that leads to a website breakdown.  In addition to causing technology problems that can directly…