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Content Amplified

A Masset Podcast

418+ episodes of conversations with marketers, sales leaders, and brand builders on how to create content that actually drives results.

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How to build trust that turns prospects into partners with Tamara Asselta

with Tamara Asselta·Founder, Stratis Consulting

Tamara Asselta, founder of Stratis Consulting, argues that trust is the most crucial skill any revenue team can work on, because it is the foundation that turns prospects into partners and protects the relationship long after the contract is signed. In this Content to Close episode, she walks through her 'listening to understand' framework — listening for the real problem, the keywords the client uses, the pressure they are under, what they have already tried, and what success actually looks like — rather than waiting for your turn to talk. Tamara explains why the right discovery question is never 'what tool do you want?' but 'what is keeping you up at night?' and why a templatized intro deck should be a starting point you are willing to abandon the moment the client signals something different. She shares a real client story where she rebuilt a broken sales-to-services handoff by mapping what services could actually deliver and co-creating a tiered service model that gave sales flexibility while protecting delivery quality. Her closing argument is that every revenue org needs a 'bridge' role — sales engineer, solutions architect, whatever you call it — to carry context from the sales process into delivery for the first month, because the orgs that skip that role consistently see lower client satisfaction and worse retention.

May 8, 202615 min
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Why marketers need to know how the whole race car is built with Mike Madden

with Mike Madden·VP of Marketing, Boomi

Mike Madden, VP of Marketing at Boomi and a veteran of Marketo, Adobe, and Vista-era demand gen, argues that marketing exists to generate pipeline and create bookings, full stop, and that everything else is an art project that gets cut when the budget tightens. He uses a race car analogy with his team: you do not want a driver who has never seen the car built, because the marketer who knows how every system, definition, and process fits together can tell you exactly what kind of content the engine needs and where, even if that content is an unglamorous paid-search infographic designed only to move a lead from a score of five to eight before the score decays back to zero. Mike traces this conviction to an embarrassing moment early in his Adobe tenure when CEO Shantanu Narayen questioned the Marketo numbers and Mike, put in front of the global head of sales, could not articulate how his team's work tied to pipeline and bookings. His advice for getting unstuck is not to read more reports but to find the right mentor, the person who can tell you what they would do with a million dollars and how much it would book, and to put yourself in pressure positions where you can be embarrassed and learn the rest of the picture. On AI, Mike is direct: it will not replace your brain, it cannot learn your business for you, and the marketers entering the field today should still master Excel, Salesforce, and marketing automation, because hard skills paired with good soft skills are what actually let you influence a business.

May 7, 202615 min
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Why experience design is the only edge left when AI commoditizes content with Julio Ramirez Berroa

with Julio Ramirez Berroa·Marketing Operations Leader, B2B Architectural Lighting Manufacturer

Julio Ramirez Berroa, a marketing operations leader at a Connecticut-based B2B architectural lighting manufacturer, argues that AI is collapsing content quality into a commodity and that experience design is the only durable differentiator left for B2B marketers. He traces AI through four stages (machine learning, generative, agentic, and what he calls directive) and explains why every business is now drowning in tool sprawl, where 15 disconnected tools accumulate in two years and none of them talk to each other. Once AI can replicate the formulas that enterprise teams use to produce 'good enough' content, brand differentiation has to move from output to experience: turning prospects from spectators into participants through 3D product visualization, WebGL environments, projection mapping, and tools like Twinmotion (free under a million in revenue) and TouchDesigner (free for most small businesses). Julio warns that AI also crystallizes operational gaps, so an immersive website that outruns a real-world experience (late shipments, broken handoffs) will accelerate churn rather than prevent it. For marketers who want to break into experience design, his order of operations is start with hard close-rate data, justify spend in real dollars, then walk up the totem pole from content to customer service to revenue, designing for the hours your office is closed (when architects are at home making decisions at 11pm) so the brand still works without a human on the other end.

May 6, 202617 min
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How to run social media like a real-time testing ground with Austin Price

with Austin Price·Director of Social Media, H&L Agency

Austin Price, Director of Social Media at H&L Agency in Oakland, frames social as the real-time nervous system of the market and runs every campaign as a portfolio of hypothesis-driven tests where creative is the question and data is the answer. He uses engagement rate as a default metric while warning that every metric eventually gets gamed, so the right measure depends on the campaign goal — impressions and engagement for awareness, lower-funnel signals for conversion. Austin gives a piece of content roughly 24 hours, not 30 days, to reveal whether to pivot or lean in, using prior content samples as his baseline so he can recognize an above-line or below-line read fast enough to redirect spend. He pushes back on raw reach as a vanity metric, pointing to a campaign that hit 100 million impressions against a 5 million addressable market as the cleanest tell that targeting is broken, and warns that giveaway-driven engagement can stall purchase intent because prospects pause buying to see if they won. He reframes quality versus quantity as a consistency problem (cell phone or full crew, the channel rewards on-message posting at a cadence you can sustain for a year) and treats the comment section as the missing context layer behind every dataset, the source that tells you why a piece of data happened rather than just what happened. His closing claim is that social is now the testing ground for every other channel: Hulu's Chad Powers began as a Manning brothers YouTube video, the Dr. Pepper jingle clip became a national TV ad, and authentic social formats are now mimicked in CTV and traditional advertising.

May 5, 202617 min
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How to use AI across sales, marketing, and customer success with Richmond Taylor

with Richmond Taylor·Founder, AI Automation and Education

Richmond Taylor, founder of an AI automation and education business and the startup promptanything.io, uses the Feynman technique to collapse the entire go-to-market motion into a frame a five-year-old could repeat: sales is how you speak, marketing is how you look, and customer success is how you get the second date. Inside that frame, AI now handles roughly 80 percent of the work in each function, from custom outbound and meeting booking on the sales side, to scripts, frames, videos, tone, voice, and brand on the marketing side, to inbound responses and tier-one customer support. The unlock is prompt engineering, which Richmond compares to landing in a small Japanese town with no shared language: without it, you cannot navigate the AI world. He breaks prompts into four categories (system, user, developer, assistant) and explains why one big detailed prompt outperforms a long thread of short follow-ups, where each new message burns tokens, bloats context, and pushes the model toward contradictions and hallucinations. His closing recommendation is to start by mastering the prompt itself, because every other AI capability (agents, automations, web apps) is downstream of how clearly you can communicate with the model.

May 1, 202614 min
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Why more AI content is not the same as more pipeline with Amanda Landsaw

with Amanda Landsaw·CMO, Endeavor B2B

Amanda Landsaw, CMO at Endeavor B2B (a marketing, media, and intelligence organization spanning 90+ brands across 16 verticals), argues that increased supply and volume of AI content does not increase relevance, differentiation, or trust, because speed is not strategy. She frames the work as 'crap input equals crap output' and explains that getting useful AI work back requires an almost intimate relationship with the model, layered prompts that peel back the onion, and a willingness to feed the system your own talks, papers, blogs, and podcasts so it can ghostwrite in your voice without losing the human review layer. Amanda also walks through how buyer behavior is shifting as people use ChatGPT and Claude as their new search, why personalization is really just relevancy in disguise (anchored in privacy-first behavioral and intent data), and how to give sales reps smarter openings so discovery starts a step or two ahead of ground zero. She makes the case that the one thing AI cannot replicate is point of view, which is why the human element, tone, and bias have to stay in the loop. The takeaway: produce less noise, sharpen the input, keep the human review, and design content so AI surfaces it on the consumer side too.

April 30, 202619 min
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Why customer marketing is a growth driver, not a content function with Antu Buck

with Antu Buck·Customer Marketing Leader, Gigamon

Antu Buck, who built the customer marketing pillar from scratch at Gigamon and previously led programs at McAfee and Intel, argues that most teams misdiagnose customer marketing as a content function when it should be run as a growth driver. She breaks the discipline into three pillars: customer advocacy (testimonials, case studies, reference programs), community engagement (executive briefings, advisory boards, social), and customer lifecycle management (onboarding, renewal, expansion in partnership with customer success). To keep voice-of-the-customer authentic, Antu refuses to let brand teams script customer quotes and instead asks open-ended questions like what keeps you up at night and what you would tell someone in your position six months ago. She walks through how voice-of-customer research drove Gigamon to shift its messaging from public cloud to hybrid cloud, and how a customer advisory board vote led the company to launch precryption. Her credibility loop runs on visible internal communication: an executive dashboard tied to business outcomes that shines the same light on the team that the team shines on customers. Her starter playbook for new customer marketers: align to business goals first, get a tool in place inside the first 30 days, build the case study and reference program, then layer in win-loss research and advisory boards as you go.

April 29, 202619 min
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Why sales enablement stops driving revenue when it becomes a service desk with Christa Fisher

with Christa Fisher·Head of Sales Training and Development

Christa Fisher, Head of Sales Training and Development with more than two decades in sales, enablement, and L&D, argues that enablement stops driving revenue the moment it gets treated like a service desk: sales requests training, enablement delivers training, everyone feels good, and the needle never moves. She uses a race car driver analogy to separate the two functions: training teaches the driver how to drive strategically, while enablement keeps the car fueled, the track clear, and the win achievable. The diagnostic question that flips reactive into proactive is not what do sellers need but what has to change in live deals to drive more revenue, which forces enablement to align to pipeline health, conversion, and quota instead of content volume. Christa pushes hard on observable deal behaviors as the unit of measure: deeper discovery questions, value tied to business impact, multi-threading, and clean stage progression rather than completions and attendance. She explains why reps revert to old habits under pressure (the new behavior never became the practiced default), why late-stage surprises like procurement stalls are really upstream discovery failures, and why the first place to look for insight is not the dashboard but the call recording. Her closing rule: feel-good training is nice, but sticky training, embedded by sales leaders into real deals, is what changes behavior.

April 28, 202617 min
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Why sales enablement is really a revenue execution system with Robin Schweitzer

with Robin Schweitzer·Revenue and Sales Enablement Executive

Robin Schweitzer, a Revenue and Sales Enablement Executive with a background spanning sales, marketing, and enablement, argues that most teams misdiagnose enablement as training and content when it should operate as a revenue execution system. She installs three pillars when she walks into a role — rep readiness, pipeline management, and deal execution — and refuses to let content volume masquerade as impact. Robin shows how a lopsided discovery-to-proposal ratio (roughly one week of discovery against four weeks of proposal) surfaced a hidden three-part discovery problem that, once broken into sequenced conversations, lifted close-won rate by 12 percent at a prior B2B SaaS employer. She watches threading, stage duration, talk-to-listen ratio, and stall clusters as her early-warning signals, and uses a four-quadrant stakeholder mapping exercise across C-suite, sales leadership, and reps to build credibility before she recommends change. Her rule for SKO is the tell: training only sticks when it's followed by micro-trainings tied to real open deals, not a calendar event that decays inside a month. The closing frame: stop chasing the number, change the behavior, and bring product and market problems back upstream when they belong there.

April 24, 202614 min
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Finding a job in the age of AI (and what marketers should do differently) with Katie Fortunato

with Katie Fortunato·EVP Platform and Innovation, Co-Founder of Hire Innovations (Jobstream)

Katie Fortunato, EVP of Platform and Innovation and co-founder of Hire Innovations (Jobstream), explains that 70 to 80 percent of jobs never make it to a job board and over 65 percent of hires still come through networking and referrals — which means the mass-apply, 'bot on bot' activity dominating LinkedIn is a dead end for both sides of the table. For job seekers, she recommends using the Ikigai framework (passion, skill, market demand) to define a target and then running account-based marketing on your own career — building a named target list of companies and working referral paths in. For employers, she argues every company now needs a clearly articulated employer value proposition (EVP) and a recruitment marketing engine that treats candidates like a consumer audience, including creator-driven video content that is future-friendly for AI search and LLMs. Katie also makes the case for the 'chief work officer' — the convergence of HR, marketing, and operations around human capital — and shares a Pokemon case study where rejected applicants are being reframed as the brand's most loyal fan base. Her closing advice: get creative, bring humanity back into hiring, and build for the channels AI actually surfaces.

April 23, 202621 min
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How to tie content to revenue, retention, and real customer outcomes with Justin Chappell

with Justin Chappell·Head of Digital Strategy, CX and Operations

Justin Chappell, Head of Digital Strategy, CX and Operations, argues that most content programs are stuck measuring vanity metrics — opens, clicks, awareness, and engagement — when they should be tied to financial outcomes like gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, renewal rates, and time to value. He outlines the three places content programs typically break down: content gets created in isolation without cross-functional ownership, it gets delivered on rigid time-bound drip campaigns instead of predictive signals, and success is measured too early on easy numbers instead of 30/60/90-day behavior. Justin contrasts the 'peanut butter' health-score approach — where one red/yellow/green model gets spread across every customer — with predictive engagement models that use product telemetry, psychographic, and firmographic data to meet each customer individually. He introduces a long form / short form / micro-learning framework that turns content into a roadmap every department can contribute to, with program managers, tech writers, and marketing each owning a role. He closes with a case for self-service as a friction-removal strategy, arguing the next evolution is AI-enabled systems that anticipate what a customer needs before they ask — so content finds them, not the other way around.

April 22, 202620 min
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How to turn your best digital content into physical mail that closes deals with Kris Rudeegraap

with Kris Rudeegraap·Co-CEO, Sendoso

Kris Rudeegraap, Co-CEO of Sendoso and a decade-long operator in the direct mail and gifting automation space, argues that marketers are sitting on a pile of high-performing digital content that could double as their best physical outreach — they just never think to mail it. In this Content Amplified episode, Kris walks through how to triangulate top-performing assets using three data sources (sales enablement platforms like Highspot or Seismic, web/CMS analytics, and paid-ad conversion data), then repurpose them into formats worth opening — Mad Libs books, scratch-off insight cards, workbooks, video mailers, trading cards, and quarterly printed magazines. He maps physical mailers to the full buyer's journey, from top-of-funnel SDR plays to stage-three air cover in competitive deals to post-sale onboarding kits, and explains how AI now drives personalization, print-on-demand, smart delivery to home addresses, and signal-based automated workflows. He closes with a dead-simple starter plan: pick your best asset, print 50 copies, split them across 25 in-pipeline deals and 25 target accounts, write a note, and ship.

April 21, 202617 min
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How to Operationalize Discovery So Buyers Sell Themselves with Nick Lopez

with Nick Lopez·Learning & Development Leader | Sales Enablement

Nick Lopez, a sales learning and development leader with a background spanning marketing and multifamily sales, argues that most discovery calls fall apart for the same reason: sellers ask surface-level questions, bounce between topics, and default to pitch mode the moment things get quiet. In this Content to Close episode, Nick walks through a 'pillar' framework for discovery where every question drills deeper into one topic before moving on — so sellers actually uncover pain instead of skimming past it. He explains the 80/20 listening rule (sellers talk 20%, clients talk 80%), why personal pain matters more than company pain, and the specific questions that get prospects to sell themselves on the solution. Nick also shares a practical handoff model from sales to customer success — document everything, run an internal prep meeting before involving the client, and preserve the rapport that was built in discovery so the client experience stays consistent through the full lifecycle. His closing take on content: during discovery, keep it minimal, but use diagnostic checklists and relatable collateral as leave-behinds to build trust and prepare prospects for the next meeting.

April 17, 202621 min
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How to Turn Data Into Narratives People Actually Remember with Kirsten Von Busch

with Kirsten Von Busch·Director of Product Marketing, Experian Automotive

Kirsten Von Busch, Director of Product Marketing at Experian Automotive, shares how her team turns one of the richest datasets in the auto industry into content that marketers, dealers, lenders, and OEMs actually use. Kirsten walks through her 'treat it like a science experiment' approach: start with a hypothesis about what you think the data will say, drill in to confirm or kill it, then build a narrative people can act on. She argues brand messaging still matters early (credibility is a prerequisite to being heard), but after that, data-driven content wins — as long as you speak in the audience's language, not yours. Kirsten explains why partner-led stories add proof that first-party data alone can't deliver, why every insight should be published in multiple formats (white paper, LinkedIn clip, video, data deep-dive) because different audiences consume differently, and why the biggest trap in data storytelling is 'burying the lead' in pivot tables. Her closing advice on metrics: vanity metrics (opens, downloads, time spent) matter, but the real signal is whether someone asked a 'so what' follow-up question — and she still treats conference hallway feedback as one of her most valuable data sources.

April 16, 202618 min
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How Search and Discovery Are Changing in the Age of Generative AI with Rich Missey

with Rich Missey·20-Year SEO Veteran | Hyatt, Cars.com, Groupon, Whirlpool

Rich Missey, a 20-year SEO veteran who has led search at Hyatt, Cars.com, Groupon, and Whirlpool, argues that the playbook most marketers have been running for two decades is breaking — and the fundamentals most teams skipped are exactly what matters in the new world. Rich explains 'query fan out,' where generative systems expand a user's basic question into follow-ups the user hadn't even formed yet, and guides them to the answer without ever leaving the search ecosystem. That means informational content is getting swallowed whole inside AI overviews, and the old SEO-to-conversion handoff (rank, land, pop-up, convert) no longer happens. Rich's answer: structure. He makes the case that heading hierarchy, internal linking, sentence-level clarity (he literally brings up junior-high sentence diagramming), and tables/bullets — not prose walls — are what determine whether generative systems surface your content. He also pushes marketers to rethink measurement (scroll depth, micro-interactions, and conversion funnels, not just views) and to dismantle silos between SEO, social, editorial, and press teams so the brand experience is consistent wherever the user encounters it. His closing bet: within a year or two, generative systems will create their own subtasks and agents on the fly, and the marketers who invested in clean content structure and technical infrastructure (APIs, database access) will be the ones still getting picked up.

April 15, 202617 min
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How to Be Creative in a "Boring" Industry with Logan Freedman

with Logan Freedman·Global Head of SEO, ManyChat

Logan Freedman, Global Head of SEO at ManyChat, has built a career out of standing out in industries everyone else calls boring. In this episode, Logan defines creativity as figuring out how to stand out in 'a sea of gray' — and his definition starts with fun. If you're not having fun yourself, your audience won't either. Logan explains how to spot when your team has stalled out (hint: stress, boredom, and overload are the telltale signs), and why the best ideation sessions are the ones that start with completely off-topic conversations about cults or weird hobbies and then loop back into work. He walks through his most famous campaign at LawnStarter: after getting denied a FOIA request about grass damage at Austin City Limits, he talked the CMO into walking the festival with swabs, tested six locations for fecal matter in a lab, pitched the results as an exclusive to every Texas news outlet, and got banned from ACL for life — while generating 100+ high-authority backlinks. Logan also breaks down his playbook for turning these campaigns into backlink-generating studies: build a full methodology page, use data snippets and simple graphs (not full infographics, which media outlets hate), password-protect the page, pitch it as an exclusive to one top-tier publisher, then watch lower-tier outlets pick it up for free. His closing advice for building creativity into a regular workflow: hold ideation sessions every two weeks, treat no idea as bad, and maintain a running database of crazy ideas you can pull from when a campaign slot opens up.

April 14, 202617 min
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Don't Be Afraid to Create Less with Jessika Ward

with Jessika Ward·Sales Enablement Leader | 13 Years in SaaS

Jessika Ward, a 13-year sales enablement veteran who has built programs from scratch at multiple SaaS startups, argues that the biggest shift enablement teams can make is redefining their function — from content and training generation to performance management. She explains why seller attention is a commodity that should be protected at all costs, and why the best enablement content feels like a shortcut, not homework — showing up when sellers are stuck rather than waiting for a calendar event. Jessika introduces an 'air traffic control' model for enablement where one curated signal per week replaces the noise of competing teams fighting for seller attention. She also challenges the industry's reliance on engagement and course-completion metrics, arguing that observable behavior change and revenue outcomes — deal velocity, pipeline generated, time to close — are the only metrics that matter. Her closing advice: start with the business problem, respect seller attention, and don't be afraid to create less.

April 8, 202615 min
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What Publishing a Book Taught a 20-Year Marketing Veteran About His Own Craft with Frank Pasquine

with Frank Pasquine·Marketing Director, Americas | DoubleVerify

Frank Pasquine, Marketing Director at DoubleVerify with nearly 20 years in the field, shares what promoting his debut novel The Prince of New York taught him about his own marketing craft. Despite spending his career advising on content strategy, platform fragmentation, and audience targeting, Frank discovered that doing it for his own product — with his own money and no approval process — was a fundamentally different experience. He explains how the fragmentation he talks about daily at DoubleVerify hit differently when he was a one-man team choosing between TikTok, Instagram, and BookTok. Frank reveals that his most successful content strategy mirrors what works in his corporate role: in-person activations (like a book signing at a St. Mark's Place bookstore) amplified digitally for FOMO and social proof. He also shares how AI video tools like Sora are enabling him to create teaser content in minutes that would have cost thousands at NYU Film School, and offers a practical playbook: start planning 100 days before launch, know your audience, identify your differentiation, and build anticipation through micro-moments and hooks.

April 9, 202625 min
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Find Your Superpower, Then Build a Team Around the Gaps with Allison Myers

with Allison Myers·Director of Marketing & Communications | Fives Intralogistics Corp.

Allison Myers, Director of Marketing and Communications at Fives Intralogistics Corp. with 25 years in B2B marketing, shares her framework for identifying your professional superpower and using it to build both a standout personal brand and a stronger team. She offers three diagnostic questions: What problems do people trust you with when it really matters? What type of work energizes you even on your worst day? And when do you reliably move the needle? Allison explains how to blend personal and professional branding on LinkedIn without oversharing — using a 'thin but intentional' line that reinforces trust and credibility. She addresses how to cut through AI-generated noise by leading with point of view over presence, arguing that consistency beats cleverness and that you don't need a viral moment to stand out. She closes with a powerful team-building philosophy: once you know your superpower, hire people who fill your gaps — don't hire another you. The collective output of a complementary team is always greater than any individual effort.

April 8, 202619 min
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Why More Content Isn't Working and What to Do Instead with Natalie Cunningham

with Natalie Cunningham·SVP of Marketing | Data Axle

Natalie Cunningham, SVP of Marketing at Data Axle, explains why producing more content each quarter without seeing a lift in pipeline is a symptom of a deeper problem: most marketing teams spend all their energy on production and none on the intelligence work that makes production successful. She introduces the concept of 'audience intelligence' — understanding the whole human inside the buying committee, not just their job title and firmographics — and shares how first-party research at Data Axle revealed that generational influences on buying behavior transfer directly from consumers' personal lives into their B2B purchasing decisions. Natalie also addresses AI's role as a 'marketer frenemy,' arguing that AI should be repositioned from a content production partner to a thought partner that accelerates research and insight generation. She closes with a strong take on measurement: content should never be measured against pipeline generation metrics, because doing so sets content teams up for failure.

April 7, 202618 min
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Sales Enablement Is a Revenue System, Not a Training Function with Jason Gwilliam

with Jason Gwilliam·Sales Enablement Practitioner | 25 Years in Healthcare & Med-Tech

Jason Gwilliam, a 25-year healthcare and med-tech sales enablement veteran, makes the case that enablement must be treated as a revenue system — not a training function. He explains how to shift executive perception by anchoring on measurable metrics like time-to-competency and sales cycle compression, and why enablement is best understood as an ecosystem of cross-functional stakeholders all feeding into a central hub. Jason draws on his experience at Abbott and other companies to illustrate how an aligned enablement program drives faster ramp times, shorter sales cycles, and reproducible selling behaviors. He also addresses the coaching-vs-managing distinction using sports analogies, shares why marketing alignment is critically undervalued in enablement, and explains how AI coaching tools should be introduced carefully — as development tools, not punitive grading systems. He closes with an emerging trend: fractional enablement roles on company boards.

April 3, 202619 min
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Content Is King, but Distribution Wears the Pants with Leslie Bartley

with Leslie Bartley·Lifecycle & Customer Marketing Expert | Squire

Leslie Bartley, lifecycle marketing expert at Squire, makes the case that content strategy is inseparable from distribution strategy — because the greatest content in the world still falls flat if it shows up on the wrong channel at the wrong time. She introduces a practical framework for matching message urgency to channel type: transactional messages warrant multi-channel redundancy, while discovery and education content belongs in reference-friendly formats like email and notification centers rather than high-interruption push and SMS. Leslie shares how she uses customer.io and documented workflows to keep complex multi-channel messaging organized, and makes a nuanced case for the symbiotic relationship between automation and human touch — arguing that automation should handle the 90% of routine touchpoints so human CSMs can focus their 10% on high-value conversations. She closes with her 'core four' metrics framework (reach, conversion/engagement, revenue, disinterest) and a forward-looking vision of centralized, AI-curated B2B content digests.

April 2, 202618 min
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Bringing a Broadcast Mindset to B2B Marketing with Roisin Hunt

with Roisin Hunt·Senior Director of Product Marketing at Great Place to Work

Roisin Hunt, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Great Place to Work, draws on a decade of Irish television and radio production to show how a broadcast mindset transforms B2B marketing. She explains why every piece of content should be built like a segment — with a hook, pacing, and a clear audience experience — and how the COVID era permanently raised the bar for digital events. Roisin breaks down the biggest mistakes brands make in virtual events (audio/visual quality, lack of audience energy, no pre/post personalization plan) and pushes back on the false belief that great production requires a big budget — her most successful event ran on Zoom Webinar with 2,500 attendees. She also shares how she turned her company's annual conference into a year-round content pipeline, using the conference stage to vet and produce case studies, digital event segments, and written content for the rest of the year.

April 1, 202617 min
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Why People Connect with People, Not Brands with Marisa Lather

with Marisa Lather·Content Marketer & Brand Strategist | Marketer Marisa

Marisa Lather, content marketer and brand strategist known as Marketer Marisa, explains why the rise of AI-generated polished content has paradoxically made raw, human-first content more valuable. She traces the 'anti-AI aesthetic' — messy bathroom sink product photography, unpolished social media — to a fundamental truth: people are hardwired to connect with other people, not brands. Marisa breaks down how to close the trust gap through creator partnerships (internal and external), employee advocacy, user-generated content, and radical transparency. She introduces the concept of a creator hub — a centralized enablement resource for creators — and explains why the biggest brands succeed by trusting creators to create rather than enforcing rigid messaging. She also shares practical advice for measuring creator campaigns: personality-based campaigns track sentiment, engagement, and loyalty, not just conversion, and the channel strategy should follow the audience, not the brand's preferences.

March 31, 202616 min
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How Seller Curiosity and Continuous Discovery Drive More Closed-Won Deals with Claire Scull

with Claire Scull·Founder at Ordo Consultants

Claire Scull, founder of Ordo Consultants, explains why seller curiosity is the single most underrated driver of closed-won deals. She walks through two essential sales frameworks — BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline) for early qualification and SciPAB (Situation, Complication, Implication, Position, Action, Benefit) for deeper proposal-stage discovery — and shows how each maps to different stages of the sales cycle. Claire emphasizes that discovery is not a one-time event: the best sellers practice continuous revalidation throughout the opportunity lifecycle, using Customer Verifiable Outcomes (CVOs) to confirm deal health at every stage. She shares a cautionary real-world story of a committed forecast deal lost because a seller stopped asking questions after initial qualification, and discusses how content — from onboarding resources and enablement flashcards to customer references and thought leadership — plays a critical role across the entire sales process.

March 27, 202622 min
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Marketing Org Design, Content Strategy, and AI's Impact on the Modern CMO with Justin Steinman

with Justin Steinman·Chief Marketing Officer at ModMed

Justin Steinman, CMO of ModMed, delivers a masterclass on marketing organizational design and how it fuels a powerful content engine. He structures his marketing team like a free market economy — product marketers aligned with product managers, specialty marketers with general managers, and demand gen managers with sales segments (with bonuses tied to sales quota achievement). Corporate marketing serves as the unifying brand voice and final filter to market, ensuring consistency across all campaigns. Justin introduces his 'steak and sizzle' framework: product marketing delivers the substance (positioning, differentiation, business benefits) while the content team in corporate marketing adds the voice and brand consistency. He also explains how AI is reshaping content demands — LLMs consume information differently than search engines, press releases are back in vogue because LLMs love them, and he positions AI as an 'intern' that accelerates his content team's output without replacing them.

March 26, 202618 min
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Using AI for Mega Trend Research and Smarter Content Strategy with Tuesday Hagiwara

with Tuesday Hagiwara·Marketing Strategist at Nonprofit (Research-focused)

Tuesday Hagiwara reveals a side of AI that most marketers overlook — using it for high-level strategic research and trend analysis rather than just content creation. She walks through her process of identifying mega trends using the PESTLE framework (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental), leveraging tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Miro to consume and synthesize massive amounts of research — including 160+ pieces of thought leadership and 60+ reports. By grounding LLM conversations in deep research, she produces dramatically better campaign ideas and content strategies than those relying on generic AI prompts. Tuesday emphasizes using AI for what it does best — summarizing and pattern recognition — rather than writing content directly, and validates all AI-generated insights through real-world conversations.

March 25, 202616 min
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Why Trust-Driven Content Comes from People, Not Brands with Tiffanie Reynolds

with Tiffanie Reynolds·Owner at MARCOM Consultants

Tiffanie Reynolds, owner of MARCOM Consultants, makes a compelling case for why trust-driven content must come from real people — not polished corporate messaging. She cites research showing storytelling is 20 times more memorable than corporate messaging and consumers trust subject matter experts 63% more than corporate brands. Tiffanie explains why companies are often hesitant to promote individual personalities (fear of employees leaving), but argues this approach backfires because audiences crave human-centric, personality-driven content. She highlights Tampa International Airport and Wendy's as brands doing human-centric social content right — using humor, micro-stories, and cultural relevance — while calling out the professional services industry (Big Four consulting firms) for producing excellent research content but lacking brand personality. On AI, Tiffanie praises its value as a research tool with citations but warns writers to always verify sources and never use AI to write content directly.

March 24, 202616 min
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How Can You Build a Scalable Thought Leadership Engine Using 15-Minute Employee Interviews?

with Laura Pursley·Senior Marketing Director at US Signal

Laura Pursley reveals how to turn quick 15-minute employee interviews into a scalable thought leadership content engine — blog posts, social content, and more — without burning out subject matter experts. The fuller lesson is that 15-minute structured interviews with SMEs can generate enough raw material for 4-6 pieces of content across multiple formats The key to avoiding SME burnout is making the process effortless for them — prepare questions, record everything, handle all production The page now frames the episode as a practical, transcript-backed reference for marketers who need the key idea, the reusable examples, and the next-step guidance without listening to the full recording first.

March 12, 202619 min
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How do you build a content strategy that actually supports sales?

with Katie Robinson·Chief Marketing Officer at LS3P

Katie Robinson explains why most content strategies fail sales teams and provides a practical framework for building content around the buyer journey that reps actually want to use. The fuller lesson is that Sales teams ignore most marketing content because it's built around product features rather than buyer objections and questions at each deal stage The highest-impact sales content maps to specific moments in the buyer journey — not generic 'awareness' or 'consideration' buckets The page now frames the episode as a practical, transcript-backed reference for marketers who need the key idea, the reusable examples, and the next-step guidance without listening to the full recording first.

March 11, 202616 min
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How Does Content Create Growth and Scale?

with Billy Cripe·Global Vice President of Marketing at Solifi

Billy Cripe, Global Vice President of Marketing at Solifi, explains how does content create growth and scale. Billy Cripe joins Content Amplified to discuss how does content create growth and scale. The episode uses practical examples from Billy's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

July 9, 202516 min
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How Does Your Content Reach the 95 Percent Who Are Not Buying Yet?

with Ryan Radcliff·Product Marketing Leader at SupportLogic

Ryan Radcliff, Product Marketing Leader at SupportLogic, explains how does your content reach the 95 percent who are not buying yet. Ryan Radcliff joins Content Amplified to discuss how does your content reach the 95 percent who are not buying yet. The episode uses practical examples from Ryan's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

July 8, 202518 min
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How Is AI Changing Search Experience Optimization?

with Luke Hayes·Digital Marketing and SEO Strategist

Luke Hayes, Digital Marketing and SEO Strategist, explains how is ai changing search experience optimization. Luke Hayes joins Content Amplified to discuss how is ai changing search experience optimization. The episode uses practical examples from Luke's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

July 3, 202516 min
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How Do You Turn One Video Into a Full Content Library?

with Sherri Schwartz·Video and Content Marketing Leader

Sherri Schwartz, Video and Content Marketing Leader, explains how do you turn one video into a full content library. Sherri Schwartz joins Content Amplified to discuss how do you turn one video into a full content library. The episode uses practical examples from Sherri's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

July 2, 202516 min
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How Do You Build Expert-Led Content That Earns Trust?

with Susan Powell·Content and Marketing Leader

Susan Powell, Content and Marketing Leader, explains how do you build expert-led content that earns trust. Susan Powell joins Content Amplified to discuss how do you build expert-led content that earns trust. The episode uses practical examples from Susan's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

July 1, 202518 min
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How Should B2B Marketers Test AI Tools Strategically?

with Jill Ransome·B2B Marketing Leader

Jill Ransome, B2B Marketing Leader, explains how should b2b marketers test ai tools strategically. Jill Ransome joins Content Amplified to discuss how should b2b marketers test ai tools strategically. The episode uses practical examples from Jill's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

June 25, 202516 min
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How Can Podcasting Build Relationships That Drive Business?

with Jeremy Weisz·Co-Founder, Rise25

Jeremy Weisz, Co-Founder, Rise25, explains how can podcasting build relationships that drive business. Jeremy Weisz joins Content Amplified to discuss how can podcasting build relationships that drive business. The episode uses practical examples from Jeremy's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

June 24, 202519 min
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What Is Anti-Marketing Content for Technical Audiences?

with Jesus Requena·Marketing Leader at Sanity

Jesus Requena, Marketing Leader at Sanity, explains what is anti-marketing content for technical audiences. Jesus Requena joins Content Amplified to discuss what is anti-marketing content for technical audiences. The episode uses practical examples from Jesus's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

June 18, 202536 min
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How Is AI Changing Content Marketing and Search?

with Carmela Fortin·AI Coach and Consultant

Carmela Fortin, AI Coach and Consultant, explains how is ai changing content marketing and search. Carmela Fortin joins Content Amplified to discuss how is ai changing content marketing and search. The episode uses practical examples from Carmela's work to show how marketers can turn expertise, customer insight, and clear positioning into content that is easier to trust and easier to use. The richer page treatment pulls the transcript into a standalone summary, specific takeaways, real quotes, reusable resources, and FAQs so the episode can serve search visitors and sales or marketing teams even before someone listens to the full recording. The practical lesson is to make content more useful by connecting the topic to audience intent, concrete examples, and a clear next action.

June 17, 202516 min
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What content you shouldn't be focusing on

with Madi Bullock·Content Marketing, PR, and Brand Communications Consultant

Madi Bullock makes a provocative argument: for most B2B companies, the content you probably should not be focusing on is broad social media content for channels like Instagram and TikTok. Her reasoning is that B2B content has to be relevant to the buyer's stage and intent, and those channels are usually places people go to relax, not shop for software or evaluate vendors. She does make an important exception for LinkedIn, where educational, pain-point-driven content can still play a meaningful role. She also argues that if you want to test social, influencer or creator partnerships are often a smarter first move than trying to build a branded social presence from scratch.

September 19, 202314 min
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How to make product-led content interesting and helpful

with Megan Pratt·Fractional Product Marketing Consultant

Megan Pratt argues that product-led content becomes far more effective when marketers stop treating it as a rushed launch announcement and start treating it as a way to connect customers to the product across the full buying journey. Her three-part framework is to get closer to the product launch process so marketing has time to be creative, use that extra time to think beyond feature briefs and map content across the customer lifecycle, and stay close to real customer questions by listening to calls, scanning LinkedIn, and talking with sales. Her message is that the best product-led content sits with one foot in the product world and one foot in the customer world.

September 12, 202311 min

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