research-sources

When the user wants to find information sources for content ideation, competitor monitoring, or industry tracking. Also use when the user mentions "research…

INSTALLATION
npx skills add https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills --skill research-sources
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SKILL.md

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Category

Format

Use

News

Real-time, daily

Breaking news, announcements

Blogs

Company, analyst

Deep dives, product updates

Newsletters

Curated, weekly/daily

Trends, summaries; low effort

Events

Conferences, webinars

Industry pulse, networking

Data

Layoffs, market cap, funding

Quantitative signals

Community

Forums, Q&A

Real questions, pain points

Archives

Wayback, Internet Archive

Historical content, competitor changes

Selection criteria: Authority, freshness, coverage, language/locale. Prefer 10–15 high-quality sources over 50+ low-signal ones.

Example Sources (Generic)

Category

Examples

News

TechCrunch, VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review

Blogs

Google AI Blog, OpenAI Blog, company blogs

Newsletters

TLDR AI, Ben's Bites, The Batch (DeepLearning.AI)

Data

Layoffs.fyi, Crunchbase, Companies Market Cap

Archives

Internet Archive, Wayback Machine

Community

Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow; regional (e.g. Qiita for Japan)

Note: Add locale-specific sources via localization-strategy; avoid long URL lists.

By Use Case

Use case

Source types

Content ideation

News, blogs, newsletters, community (Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow)

Competitor monitoring

Competitor blogs, review sites, social, funding databases

Industry tracking

News, newsletters, events, layoff/funding data

Avoid: Long URL lists that go stale. Use category framework + a few examples; update periodically.

Integration with Skills

Skill

How research sources feed in

keyword-research

Newsletters, community for long-tail and question keywords

competitor-research

Competitor blogs, review platforms, funding data

content-marketing

News, blogs for topic ideas; events for timely content

content-strategy

Industry trends for pillar/cluster planning

Output Format

  • Use case (ideation, competitor, industry)
  • Category selection (news, blogs, newsletters, etc.)
  • Source shortlist (5–15; name + purpose)
  • Cadence (daily scan, weekly digest, event calendar)

Related Skills

  • keyword-research: Keyword discovery; research sources inform topics
  • competitor-research: Competitor analysis; sources for monitoring
  • content-marketing: Content planning; sources for ideation
  • content-strategy: Topic clusters; industry signals for pillars
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