Brand, Web & Presence

How do I turn one piece of content into ten so I'm not writing from scratch every week?

A starting point

Write one solid pillar piece, then chop it into a LinkedIn post, a thread, a short video, an email, and a couple of standalone articles on its sub-points. Repurposing beats endless net-new writing and reinforces the same message. A starting point: for every big thing you make, plan five smaller things from it before you publish, so distribution is built in, not an afterthought.

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Why we picked it Reading the model is one thing, watching the team actually run it is another, and this DailyVee episode takes you inside the room where one pillar piece gets sliced into many. It turns the abstract pyramid into a repeatable workflow you can copy at a smaller scale. Treat it as a look at the habit, not a checklist you must match tool for tool, since a solo founder will run a lighter version of this.

Rethinking the GaryVee Content Model With Team Gary Vee (DailyVee 664)

On YouTube (GaryVee) by Gary Vaynerchuk about 12 minutes

Rethinking the GaryVee Content Model With Team Gary Vee (DailyVee 664)
  • Repurposing is a workflow with owners and steps, not something you do in a spare hour, so decide who or what handles each slice.
  • Watch how they mark the strong moments in a long piece first, then build the small pieces around those.
  • You can shrink the same system to one person: one pillar, a handful of clips and posts, scheduled across the week.
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✍️ Essay
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Why we picked it This is the source essay everyone else is summarizing, written by Gary Vaynerchuk himself, so you get the model straight instead of second hand. It lays out the reverse pyramid: make one substantial pillar piece, then cut it into many platform specific pieces rather than starting from a blank page every week. Read it as a starting point for the mindset, then adapt the specifics to what you actually have time to produce.

The GaryVee Content Strategy: How to Grow and Distribute Your Brand's Social Media Content

From garyvaynerchuk.com by Gary Vaynerchuk about a 15 minute read

  • Start with one pillar piece (a talk, a long video, a Q and A) and treat everything else as a slice of it, not a fresh idea.
  • Each slice should be shaped for the platform it lives on, so the same core idea reads native on LinkedIn, Instagram, and a blog.
  • Volume comes from documenting what you already do, not from inventing ten new topics a week.
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Use

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Why we picked it The GaryVee model tells you what to do, this gives you a reusable sheet so you do it the same way every week without re deciding the steps. It is a plain checklist with checkboxes plus per platform notes on text, image, and video specs, which is exactly what turns repurposing from effort into routine. Copy it into your own Google Sheets and trim it to the two or three platforms you actually post on.

Content Repurposing Checklist (Google Sheets)

From writerzen.net by WriterZen about a 10 step checklist

  • A checkbox list per pillar piece means you never lose track of which slices are still owed.
  • It carries platform specific format notes, so you are not looking up Instagram versus LinkedIn specs each time.
  • Because it is a sheet, you can duplicate it per week and build a simple running log of what you shipped.
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