We publish for 68,000 subscribers with a small team. The calendar survives because it plans around what we can actually produce in a bad month.
## Plan capacity, then fill it
One substantial piece requiring original reporting or data. Two derivatives from it. One interview, booked a month ahead. One slot left empty for whatever the month actually raises. Ideas queue outside the calendar and only enter when a slot exists.
## Decide in advance what gets dropped
When the month goes wrong, the derivatives go and the substantial piece stays. Writing that rule down in advance is what stops a busy quarter from producing four thin posts instead of one good one.
Where this applies
- Content Marketing
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