Content Governance
The rules and roles that keep content accurate over time: who owns each page, how changes are approved, and when old content is retired.
- Price
- From $6,500.00 per month
- Free trial
- One 800-word piece, researched and sourced, no card, no commitment.
Part of Content Strategy. How the work runs and what it costs across the family are set out in the content strategy guide.
What Content Governance covers
5 services under this heading. Each is priced for the work it actually involves rather than averaged into one rate.
Style Guide Development
A practical style guide covering voice, grammar, formatting and word choices, with real examples so writers and reviewer...
Priced per project
Terminology Management
A controlled list of the terms your organization uses, with preferred spellings and definitions, so products and concept...
Priced per project
Review & Approval Workflow
A clear path from draft to published, defining who reviews for accuracy, brand and legal, and how long each step should...
Priced per project
Ownership & Accountability Model
Assigning a named owner to every section of your site, responsible for keeping it accurate, so outdated pages stop being...
Priced per project
Retirement & Redirect Policy
A written policy for when content is updated, merged or removed, and how every retired URL is redirected so links and ra...
Priced per project
Rates and common questions for this work are on the Content Strategy page.
How we approach this work
Articles from the journal, written by the people who do this work. More on this subject →
How to Get Content Governance Right
Compare centralized, hub-and-spoke and distributed content governance models, score them against six criteria, and pick the right one for your organization.
Content StrategyHow to Get Content Strategy Fundamentals Right
Learn the five decisions behind any content strategy: audience, purpose, ownership, lifecycle and measurement, plus how to rescue a library that grew unplanned.
Content StrategyEditorial Calendars: The Decisions That Matter
A phase-by-phase playbook for editorial calendars: define purpose, measure real capacity, build in review time, reserve reactive space and review what shipped.
Content Governance vs the alternatives
Side-by-side on price, turnaround and what you actually get back. Written for the decision rather than for us.
Content Governance vs Content Performance
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — content governance compared with content performance.
Content Governance vs Content Planning
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — content governance compared with content planning.
Content Governance vs Content Production
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — content governance compared with content production.
Content Strategy by industry
What the work involves in your sector, what it costs there, and the US rules that apply to it.
- Agriculture and Agtech
- Auto Parts and Aftermarket
- Beauty and Cosmetics
- Construction and Contractors
- Consumer Electronics
- Dental Practices
- E-commerce and DTC Brands
- Education and E-learning
- Energy and Solar
- Events and Venues
- Fashion and Apparel
- Financial Services and Fintech
- Fitness and Wellness
- Food and Beverage
- Furniture and Home Goods
- Government and Public Sector
- Healthcare Practices
- Hotels and Hospitality
- HVAC and Home Services
- Industrial Equipment
- Insurance
- Jewelry and Watches
- Law Firms
- Logistics and Freight
- Manufacturing and Industrial
- Marketplaces and Aggregators
- Media and Publishing
- Music and Entertainment
- Nonprofits
- Pet Products
- Real Estate and Property
- Regulated Retail and Cannabis
- Restaurants and Food Service
- SaaS and Software
- Sports and Outdoor
- Staffing and Recruiting
- Toys and Games
- Travel and Tourism
Often combined with Content Governance
The work that usually sits either side of this one. One team handles all of it, under one brief.
SEO Content Strategy
A plan for what content to create, update or remove, based on what your audience searches for and where your site can re...
Priced per project
Content & Authority
Publishing what only you can say.
From $750.00 per month
Brand Strategy
Deciding who the brand is for, what makes it different and how it should sound, before any design work starts.
Priced per project
Email Strategy
A plan for what you send, to whom and how often, tied to customer lifecycle stages and measured by revenue rather than o...
Priced per project
Conversion Rate Optimization
Research first. Testing without a hypothesis is just guessing slowly.
From $2,200.00 per engagement
Video Background Editing
Green screen, rotoscope and masking — frame by frame where it matters.
From $1.50 per frame
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