Marketing & Sales

The Joe Pulizzi Framework

Content Inc. & Audience-First Marketing

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Joe Pulizzi moved markets by understanding the specific psychology of attention and offer. Joe Pulizzi's commercial thinking — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The content inc. & audience-first marketing framework distils Joe Pulizzi's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Joe Pulizzi made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Joe Pulizzi's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Joe Pulizzi's thinking.

Core Philosophy

The most profitable path to business success is building a loyal audience around your expertise before you have anything to sell. Content is not marketing—it's the foundation of a media company that happens to sell products and services.

Five Mental Models
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  5. 05

Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

What's your content tilt—the unique angle only you can own?

4 more questions in Joe Pulizzi's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Joe Pulizzi Would NOT Do · sample
Launch products before building an audience to buy them

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Joe Pulizzi actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Joe Pulizzi's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Joe Pulizzi, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • joe-pulizzi.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • joe-pulizzi-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Joe Pulizzi. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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