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Old content marketing: - Find high-volume keywords in your industry - Write articles starting with the lowest DA - Make sure your Yoast light turns green - Post a link to the article on all socials New content marketing: - Understand your audience and their pain points - Find product- and pain point-focused keywords - Take time to learn the searcher's true intent - Write great content with distribution in mind - Embed a content upgrade to capture emails - Turn the article into your next email newsletter - Create videos to promote on TikTok/YouTube/Instagram - Write a Twitter thread and promote the blog at the end - Screenshot the Twitter thread for a LinkedIn carousel - Extract and write 5+ LinkedIn posts from the article - Extract and write 10+ Twitter posts from the article - Repurpose and redistribute every 3+ months Do new content marketing in 2025. 1 long-form → 20+ short-form 1 channel → Multi-channel distribution Publish → Promote and repurpose forever

How many times have you logged on to Linkedin and found yet another email that starts with: "Hey [First Name]," followed by a generic pitch that does not concern your interests or needs. Sound familiar? We've all been there. And it's frustrating. As a fractional CMO/Consultant, I've seen this happen repeatedly. Businesses think they're doing personalization right but need to do better. It's not enough to use someone's name or company. 👉🏾 True personalization is about understanding their challenges, goals, and needs. For example, on LinkedIn, scroll through their feed and see what they post, talk about, like, and comment on. This helps as a starting ground on how to approach them and what to discuss. So, instead of sending a LinkedIn message that says: "I'd love to connect and learn more about your business," try something like: "I noticed you're working on [specific project]. I have some ideas on how you could [achieve a specific goal]. Would you be open to a quick chat?" See the difference? It's not just about being personal; it's about being relevant. And when you're relevant, you're not annoying — you're helpful. 👉🏾 So, think about this the next time you craft a personalized outreach campaign. →"Would I find this message valuable? →Does it address my specific needs and interests?" If the answer is no, it's time to return to the drawing board. 👉🏾 Also, tools like Crystal Knows help you fine-tune your message and tone when reaching out to maximize the impact of every conversation. Let's aim for genuinely helpful messages, not just another annoyance in their inbox. What do you think about personalized outreach? #b2bmarketing #demandgeneration #leadgeneration #ABM

Incrementality testing is crucial for evaluating the effectiveness of marketing campaigns because it helps marketers determine the true impact of their efforts. Without this testing, it's difficult to know whether observed changes in user behavior or sales were actually caused by the marketing campaign or if they would have occurred naturally. By measuring incrementality, marketers can attribute changes in key metrics directly to their campaign actions and optimize future strategies based on concrete data. In this blog written by the data scientist team from Expedia Group, a detailed guide is shared on how to measure marketing campaign incrementality through geo-testing. Geo-testing allows marketers to split regions into control and treatment groups to observe the true impact of a campaign. The guide breaks the process down into three main stages: - The first stage is pre-testing, where the team determines the appropriate geographical granularity—whether to use states, Designated Market Areas (DMAs), or zip codes. They then strategically select a subset of available regions and assign them to control and treatment groups. It's crucial to validate these selections using statistical tests to ensure that the regions are comparable and the split is sound. - The second stage is the test itself, where the marketing intervention is applied to the treatment group. During this phase, the team must closely monitor business performance, collect data, and address any issues that may arise.  - The third stage is post-test analysis. Rather than immediately measuring the campaign's lift, the team recommends waiting for a "cooldown" period to capture any delayed effects. This waiting period also allows for control and treatment groups to converge again, confirming that the campaign's impact has ended and ensuring the model hasn’t decayed. This structure helps calculate Incremental Return on Advertising spending, answering questions like “How do we measure the sales directly driven by our marketing efforts?” and “Where should we allocate future marketing spend?” The blog serves as a valuable reference for those looking for more technical insights, including software tools used in this process. #datascience #marketing #measurement #incrementality #analysis #experimentation – – –  Check out the "Snacks Weekly on Data Science" podcast and subscribe, where I explain in more detail the concepts discussed in this and future posts:    -- Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gKgaMvbh   -- Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gj6aPBBY    -- Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gcwPeBmR https://lnkd.in/gWKzX8X2 

Is Your 2025 B2B Content Strategy Underway? A solid content plan is essential for aligning with your business goals and driving real results. That's why we created our B2B Content Planning Guide for 2025—packed with actionable insights to help you set measurable goals, deepen audience understanding, and refine your strategy across key channels.  Here's a look at what's inside: SMART Objectives: Lay out goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound—from building brand engagement to increasing website traffic. Audience Insights: Adapt and evolve buyer personas to better address your audience's changing needs and priorities. Content & Competitor Audits: Regularly assess your content performance and analyze competitors to pinpoint fresh opportunities and audience preferences. Channel Strategy: Identify the best platforms, formats, and posting times to maximize your reach and impact. Key Performance Indicators: Define KPIs that track your progress, ensuring your content strategy is on the path to growth. Ready to make 2025 your best year in B2B content? Download the guide and start planning today. #B2BContentStrategy #2025ContentPlanning #B2BMarketing #ContentMarketingGuide #SMARTGoals #AudienceInsights #ContentAudit #CompetitorAnalysis #ChannelStrategy #KPIs #MarketingGrowth #BusinessGoals #ContentPerformance #DigitalMarketing #ContentStrategy2025

Personalization isn't about sending more emails with someone's name in the subject line. It's about understanding the secret language of your buyer's motivations. What if the most effective personalization tactic was to speak to the buyer's biggest fear, rather than their biggest desire? 🤔 Reflect on this: 1️⃣ What are the unspoken concerns that keep your buyers up at night? 2️⃣ How can you use personalization to address these concerns, rather than just trying to appeal to their aspirations? 💡 Tips for marketers: 👉 Use data to uncover hidden patterns: Analyze buyer interactions, preferences, and behaviors to identify subtle patterns, revealing their motivations, pain points, and interests, enabling targeted and personalized communication. 👉 Craft messages that speak to pain points: Tailor messages to address specific fears, concerns, and needs of each individual, demonstrating empathy and understanding, and fostering trust and connection. 👉 Measure success by conversation depth : Evaluate effectiveness by the quality and depth of conversations sparked, rather than just surface-level metrics like open rates, to gauge true engagement and relationship-building. The goal of personalization isn't to manipulate, but to connect. To show up in the buyer's world with empathy and insight. To speak their secret language. What's that one thing you could change in your personalisation strategy today to start speaking your buyer's secret language? #b2bmarketing #saas #abm #contentmarketingstrategy #thoughtleadership #thethoughtleaderway

If your website isn’t driving engagement, attracting clients, or positioning you as a trusted authority, chances are it’s missing one thing: valuable content. A static website is just an online brochure - it sits there, waiting to be found. But when you add useful, well-researched content, it transforms into a powerful business development tool. Here’s how to do it right: 1. Build a Strategy That Works: Great content doesn’t happen by accident. Your plan should align with your audience’s needs, your expertise, and your resources (time, people, and budget). A content calendar keeps you consistent, so you’re always top of mind. 2. Prioritize Research-Driven Content: Opinion pieces can be interesting, but data-backed insights and original research build credibility. If you want your content to get shared, bookmarked, and cited, focus on providing real value such as new information, deep expertise, and actionable takeaways. 3. Use Multiple Formats to Reach More People: Not everyone consumes content the same way. Some people prefer in-depth articles, while others engage with videos, podcasts, or infographics. Repurpose your best ideas across different formats to maximize reach and impact. 4. Curate, But Add Your Expertise: Sharing industry news, expert interviews, and event takeaways is a smart way to add value—but don’t just repost. Layer in your own insights to make it meaningful for your audience. Thoughtful curation strengthens your brand as a go-to resource. 5. Never Publish Without Editing: Typos and unclear messaging can hurt your credibility. Take the extra step to review your work (or have someone else do it) before publishing. Professionalism matters. 6. Publish With Purpose: A great piece of content means nothing if no one sees it. Optimize your posts with search-friendly URLs, embed videos strategically, and make sure everything is easy to find. Then, share it where your audience is - on LinkedIn, in email newsletters, and beyond. Content builds trust, and trust leads to business. If your website isn’t actively helping you attract opportunities, it’s time to rethink your content approach. Done right, it can position you as the go-to expert in your industry. Let me know what you think of these tips in the comments below! #contentmarketing #personalbranding #legalmarketing #bestadvice

Most companies don't need more content. They need better, more strategic, value-driven content. 🚀 👉 Copying your competitors? It only adds to the noise — it doesn’t differentiate you, and it definitely doesn’t drive pipeline. Here’s what to do instead if you're serious about scaling content the smart way: → Audit your existing content — identify what's driving outcomes (not just traffic). → Align your strategy with your Sales, Product, Success, and Support teams — integrate real customer feedback into your content plan. → Map your content to the full buyer journey — awareness → consideration → decision → expansion. → Focus on intent over volume — not every high-volume keyword matters to your funnel. → Identify opportunity gaps where you can genuinely add value, not just "rank." → Build content clusters around your core solutions to strengthen topical authority. → Refresh and optimize existing content regularly to keep it aligned with evolving customer needs. → Treat SEO as a distribution channel, not a content strategy. → Prioritize formats that match intent — blogs, webinars, guides, comparison pages, customer stories. → Measure what matters: influenced pipeline, sales velocity impact, time-to-value reduction — not vanity metrics. Content marketing isn’t about churning out more. It’s about building a real growth engine — one piece of strategic content at a time. Need help turning your content into a revenue-generating machine? Drop me a DM and let's get talking! 👋 #contentmarketing #b2bsaas #b2bmarketing #saasmarketing #seostrategy #b2bcontent

Today, David Edelman joins the Outthinkers Podcast to discuss how to use personalization as a competitive advantage in the age of AI. David is a Harvard Business School Fellow and Executive Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He spent over 30 years as a chief marketing officer at Aetna/CVS, as well as building consultancy businesses in digital and marketing transformation while with McKinsey, Digitas, and BCG. He now teaches marketing at Harvard Business School and serves as an advisor to top executives in startups, private equity, and larger enterprises. In the episode, we dive into David’s book, "Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI", coauthored with Mark Abraham, which helps executives learn how to put personalization at the center of their #strategy, accelerate growth, and capture their share of the value personalization creates. He shares:  -> How #personalization has radically shifted in the past decades to create unique value for customers, going beyond just marketing.  -> How #data and #AI play a pivotal role in this shift, governed by ecosystems where companies collaborate to deliver solutions rather than just products  -> The five promises businesses should focus on to seize the personalization advantage: empower me, know me, reach me, show me, and delight me  -> How to measure your solutions’ effectiveness with a custom Personalization index tool Listen here: https://lnkd.in/etxGUTEN

This tactic saved our company. Just like you, I was lied to about marketing. I scrolled LinkedIn and read posts from endless gurus who told me that if I just shared content on social media, leads would flood into our funnel. So that's exactly what we did. We built personal brands, started sharing on the company page, and generated millions of views for ourselves. Yet what all of the gurus promised, the new leads, the pipeline... It was a lie. Then we used a tactic that genuinely changed our business. Most B2B companies expect prospects to go directly from "never heard of you" to "buying your expensive service." That's way too big of a jump. Instead, you need a simple next step for prospects to take when you've got their attention. Make it free, high-value, and bridge that gap between knowing you exist and buying your services. Here's what we did: Step 1: Shared valuable content around the problems we solve Step 2: Created free lead magnets that gave immediate value Step 3: Followed up with targeted outreach about our services That simple addition of a new step in our funnel completely revolutionised our company. (We now average ~1500 new email leads every lead magnet we launch.) This carousel breaks down everything you need to know around the concept and how to implement it. --- Follow for more Niall Ratcliffe

Content marketing isn't a numbers game. It's not about churning out 40 blogs a month. Think 4-8 meaningful pieces, consistent each month. What does a good blog look like? Plan it: The content should align with the company's trajectory. Know where you're heading. Keyword it: Think about the words that matter, those that match your growth plans. Visualize it: Images, infographics, visuals that tell a story. Craft it for value: Content should be EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness). Good for SEO, great for readers. Link it: Internal links, external backlinks, references. Connect it: Have a ‘cluster’ page (or a pillar page) that readers can explore if they're interested in your product/ service.
 And once you've got that blog?
 Multiply its reach: ➡️ Break it into a newsletter. ➡️ Share it on socials. ➡️ Founders, employees, get on board: spread the word.
 Not everyone will find you directly. So, plan a proper distribution: 
 📌Turn blogs into carousels, videos, graphics. 📌Share those snippets in communities, on Quora, Reddit, Discord groups.
 In my seven years in content marketing, I've learned: Organic brand growth is the cozy, dependable kind. It's an investment that pays long-term dividends.
 Case in point? Blogs we crafted for a BFSI company 5-6 years ago. They still rank, still draw traffic. We haven’t actively managed them for years, but they keep working for the brand. That’s the enduring power of content.
 #Contentmarketing isn't fancy. It's fundamental. And that's its charm.