E-Commerce Content Marketing Planner 📣
Plan your content marketing strategy: discover what topics resonate with your audience, analyze competitor content, find trending formats, and generate a ready-to-execute content calendar. No API key required.
Installation
Two Modes
Supported Platforms
Usage Examples
Mode A — Build Strategy
Mode B — Audit
First Interaction
When user first asks about content marketing, mentions this skill, or gives a vague content-related request, greet them with:
Handling Incomplete Input
If user doesn't provide enough info, ask upfront:
For Mode A — Build:
For Mode B — Audit:
Which mode?
- A — Build: Creating a new content strategy from scratch
- B — Audit: Analyzing existing content and finding gaps
Mode A Workflow — Build Content Strategy
Step 1: Collect Strategy Inputs
Step 2: Customer Insight Mining
Extract buyer language, pain points, and use cases from customer reviews across multiple sources.
Review Sources to Search (in order of priority):
If product URL or ASIN provided:
If only product category (no URL):
Extract and categorize:
- Pain points: Problems customers mention (e.g., "battery dies too fast")
- Use cases: How customers actually use the product (e.g., "I use it at the gym")
- Emotional triggers: Language that shows excitement or frustration
- Feature highlights: What customers praise most
- Objections: Hesitations before buying
Compile into Customer Voice Bank:
Step 3: Trend & Topic Research
Discover trending topics and seasonal content opportunities.
Google Trends analysis:
Platform-specific trends:
Seasonal & event mapping:
Compile into Trend Opportunities:
Step 4: Competitor Content Analysis
If competitor brand name or handle provided, analyze their content strategy across ALL platforms.
Step 4.1: Discover Competitor Presence
Given a competitor name (e.g., "BlendJet"), search for their presence on each platform:
Compile their social handles:
Step 4.2: Analyze Content on Each Platform
For each platform where competitor is active:
If possible, web_fetch their profile pages or recent posts.
Step 4.3: Extract Strategy Insights
For each competitor, analyze:
- Content pillars: What themes do they cover repeatedly?
- Posting frequency: How often do they post per platform?
- Top performing content: What formats/topics get most engagement?
- Content formats: Video %, carousel %, static %, UGC %?
- Tone & style: Professional, funny, educational, relatable?
- Hashtag strategy: What hashtags do they consistently use?
- Influencer/UGC strategy: Do they repost customer content?
- Gaps: What are they NOT covering that you could own?
Compile into Competitor Analysis:
Step 5: SEO Content Keyword Research
Find keywords with content potential (informational intent).
Categorize by content type:
- How-to keywords: "how to clean portable blender", "how to make smoothies"
- Comparison keywords: "blender vs juicer", "best portable blender for gym"
- Problem keywords: "blender not working", "smoothie too thick"
- Listicle keywords: "best smoothie recipes", "portable blender accessories"
Compile into SEO Content Opportunities:
Step 6: Generate Content Pillars
Based on all research, define 3-5 content pillars:
Step 7: Generate Content Calendar
Create a week-by-week content calendar based on the strategy period.
Calendar format:
Include for each week:
- Posting schedule per platform
- Content type and format
- Topic aligned to content pillar
- Caption hook or headline
- Relevant hashtags or sounds (for social)
Mode B Workflow — Audit Existing Content
Step 1: Collect Current Content
Required information from user:
If user only provides brand name, search for their presence:
Fetch content data for each platform:
Step 2: Analyze Current Performance
Evaluate:
- Content mix: What % is education, lifestyle, promo, etc.?
- Posting frequency: How consistent?
- Platform fit: Right content for right platform?
- Engagement signals: Comments, shares (from visible data)
- Content gaps: What's missing vs. competitors?
Step 3: Generate Gap Analysis
Step 4: Generate Recommendations
Output improved content calendar (same format as Mode A Step 7).
Platform-Specific Guidelines
TikTok
- Optimal length: 15-60 seconds for engagement, up to 3 min for tutorials
- Posting frequency: 1-3x daily for growth, 5x/week minimum
- Best formats: Trends + product, how-tos, before/after, POV, storytime
- Hook: First 1-2 seconds must grab attention
- Sound: Use trending audio when relevant
- Hashtags: 3-5 relevant hashtags, mix broad + niche
- Reels: 15-30 seconds, vertical, trending audio
- Carousels: 5-10 slides, educational or storytelling, strong cover
- Stories: Daily, behind-scenes, polls, Q&A, links
- Posting frequency: 4-7x/week (mix Reels + carousel + static)
- Hashtags: 5-15 relevant hashtags
YouTube
- Shorts: <60 seconds, hook in first 2 seconds, vertical
- Long-form: 8-15 minutes for tutorials, strong intro + timestamps
- Posting frequency: 1-2x/week long-form, 3-5x/week Shorts
- SEO: Keyword in title, description, tags, thumbnail text
X (Twitter)
- Thread length: 3-10 tweets for educational content, storytelling
- Video: <2:20 for native video, vertical or square
- Posting frequency: 3-5x/day for growth, minimum 1x/day
- Best formats: Hot takes, threads, product announcements, engagement questions, memes
- Hook: First line must be scroll-stopping
- Engagement: Reply to comments, quote tweet customers, join conversations
- Hashtags: 1-2 max, or none (hashtags less important on X)
- Pin format: 2:3 vertical, text overlay, bright colors
- Idea Pins: Multi-page tutorials, step-by-step
- Posting frequency: 5-15 pins/day, consistency > volume
- Keywords: In pin title, description, board names
Blog/SEO
- Article length: 1,500-2,500 words for ranking
- Structure: H2/H3 headers, short paragraphs, images
- Posting frequency: 2-4 articles/month
- SEO: Keyword in title, first paragraph, headers, meta description
Amazon A+
- Brand Story: Lifestyle imagery, brand values, founder story
- Comparison charts: vs. competitors (without naming them)
- Enhanced images: Infographics, feature callouts, lifestyle shots
- Focus: Benefits over features, address common objections
Output Format
Limitations
This skill uses publicly available data via web search and page fetching. It cannot access private social media analytics, exact engagement metrics, or paid trend data. For deeper analytics, check out Nexscope — Your AI Assistant for smarter E-commerce decisions.
Integration with Other Skills
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