Welcome back to another edition of Unthreaded.

Content is one of the easiest things to push to the backburner when you're running a business.

I've done it myself.

You have customers to take care of, a team that needs you, and a list that was already too long before you added something to post.

And when you finally make something, it can feel like you've only bought yourself a day. Tomorrow, you need another idea.

That's a lot of pressure to put on yourself when one useful idea could give you several things to publish.

So this week, I want to talk about how to get more content out of the ideas you already know how to explain.

You want to start with a problem your buyer is trying to solve.

Pick one you can explain well enough that someone walks away knowing what to do next.

That becomes your core idea.

Give yourself enough room to explain it properly in a video. Talk through the problem, why it happens, and what you'd tell someone to do about it. Include an example so they can see what you mean.

Now you have material to work from the next time you sit down to publish.

Say you help businesses improve their websites. One question you hear is, “People visit our site, but nobody gets in touch. What should we change?”

You could record a video walking through three things to check: 

Each of those checks can become a short video of its own. Someone should be able to watch one and know what to look for on their page, even if they never see the full version.

The three checks together can become a carousel that walks a reader through reviewing their own site.

And your newsletter can take the same lesson further with an exercise: open your homepage, answer these questions, and choose the first thing to fix.

That's six pieces from one question you already answer in your work.

There's still editing and writing involved. You have to make each piece useful in the format someone is seeing it in. A clip that starts halfway through an explanation needs enough context to make sense on its own.

But you've already done the thinking. You've picked the problem, explained your approach, and given people something they can use.

The message stays consistent while each piece gives someone another way to understand it.

And you can keep coming back to that problem. 

Another customer question might give you a different example, an exception, or a part of the process that needs more explanation.

Start with the channels where your buyers already spend time and the amount your team can handle. 

One video, a few useful pieces from it, and an email is plenty to work on first.

The next time you're about to start from a blank page, start with a question your buyers often ask. 

There may be several pieces of content in it you haven't built yet.

This week, take one question your buyers ask and turn your answer into six pieces you can finish and publish.

Copy the prompt below and paste it into Claude (or ChatGPT, or whatever AI tool you use).

Pick a question you've answered this week. Get the full answer down once, then see how much of next week's content is already there.

We'll keep building on this next week.

Hear the conversations behind the lessons. Heavy on Brand is the podcast hosted by Brian Fitch where he sits down with founders, operators, and people building incredible brands to talk about what it actually takes to grow a business people remember.

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