

We live in an age when many marketers seek to remove all subjective thought behind their work, asking will-this-be-on-the-test-style questions about ideal word counts, whether humor converts to leads or how many images, exactly, should be used in a blog post. It’s not like we aren’t trying, since I suspect nearly all of you have led or joined such a meeting, but we keep ignoring the science and the data behind idea generation to establish a best practice for content marketing brainstorming.


Ask a hiring manager about the marketing team’s approach to brainstorming, and what he’ll tell you could be captured in this headline: “Brilliant, Cohesive Team Creates Amazing New Ideas to the Delight of Millions Everywhere – High Fives Ensue.”īut in reality, the vast majority of group brainstorm sessions fail to do anything but waste our time and our employers’ money.
