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Ross Simmonds judges content by four E's: it should educate, engage, entertain and empower. Listen

Ross admits doing all four is hard, but says content that does is very successful. He defines each one: - Educate: give people information they never had. - Engage: get people talking, possibly through controversy or a contrarian angle. - Entertain: make people feel an emotion. - Empower: make readers feel they can go and do something special.

“The best content does what I like to call the four E's. It educate, engages, entertain and empowers people. Now it's hard to do all four.”

From How to Get 10X More Traffic From Content You Already Have (with Ross Simmonds, Foundation Marketing).