
B2B Content Show: A Podcast About the How, What, and Why of B2B Content Marketing
If you do B2B content marketing, you know that Content is King ... And queen, prince, duke, duchess--the whole damn court! Bottom line, for B2B marketers, content and content strategy are crucial. In this show, we explore the art & science, the opportunities and challenges, of B2B content marketing strategy, including:-What makes some content "sticky" and other content entirely forgettable-Scaling content without sacrificing authenticity and originality-Creating content with a point of view-Producing thought leadership content that actually leads-Repurposing content-Measuring content ROIJoin me, Jeremy Shere, as I discuss these and many more important and fascinating topics with B2B marketers, demand generation and growth professionals, and content marketing leaders from across the B2B landscape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest episodes

Jan 17, 2023 • 25min
Creating content aimed at enterprises w/ Cynthia Stephens
Cynthia Stephens, Vice President of Marketing at Advisor360°, talks with Jeremy about creating content aimed at enterprises.Highlights:Three things that set marketing to enterprises apart from marketing to small accounts: personalization, perspective, partner ecosystemPersonalizing content for multiple personas within an enterprise accountHow marketers can partner with sales to build relationships with enterprise prospectsLearn more about Advisor360°Connect with Cynthia on LinkedInMemorable Quotes:"For me, there are three things that really set apart enterprise class storytelling from the content marketing and storytelling to maybe an SMB. So one is personalization, the second is perspective, and the third is really the partner ecosystem."" Think about your partner marketing ecosystem and think about ways that you can kind of help build and leverage a community of these complimentary firms, right, where they're offering complimentary services to your audience, and really help use that as a way to create thought leadership and expand brand awareness"The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, generates TONS of content, and grow revenue. Learn more at connversa.comThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 11, 2023 • 18min
Strategies for finding the best and more valuable keywords w/ Nic Straut
Nic Straut, SEO Lead/Content Creation Manager at NorthOne, talks with Jeremy about strategies for finding the best and more valuable keywords.Highlights:Why keyword stuffing no longer works to generate website trafficSearching long-tail keywords for content ideasHow to not get bogged down in trying to rank for high-volume keywordsLearn more about NorthOneConnect with Nic on LinkedInThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 10, 2023 • 15min
Creating late-funnel content w/ Rusty Bishop
Rusty Bishop, Chief Marketing Officer at Bigtincan, talks with Jeremy about creating late-funnel content.Highlights:What works and what doesn't in late-funnel content creationMarketing and sales working together to get front-line people the contentMachine learning to develop the right kinds of content that drives revenueLearn more about BigtincanConnect with Rusty on LinkedInMemorable Quotes:"There is the type of content that you would wanna provide to your customer facing teams when they are in the final stages of either closing a deal or perhaps it's renewing a client who's already a customer. So it's that late funnel, when it's getting close to being done.""What you've gotta think about, especially in late stage, is, do I have content that's addressing each of those personas that could be in that binder? I think this is something people miss quite a bit, right? They assume I'm selling to CTOs, and I've got great content for CTOs, but it turns out that I didn't have anything for the CMO and they torpedoed the deal. That's the kind of thinking that we're trying to do here in late stage"The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 9, 2023 • 16min
The value of talking 1 on 1 with prospects w/ Pam Smith
Pam Smith, Chief Marketing Officer at Globality, talks with Jeremy about the value of talking 1 on 1 with prospects.Highlights:How talking with prospects helps you understand how they thinkWhy it's important to hear how prospects talk and take note of the words they useWhy both sales and marketing should be talking to prospectsLearn more about GlobalityConnect with Pam on LinkedInThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 5, 2023 • 19min
The value of publishing data-driven industry reports w/ Cynthia Wakeford
Cynthia Wakeford, Head of Content, Brand, and Public Relations at GoodTime, talks with Jeremy about the value and power of data driven reports.Highlights:Why audiences tend to find data-driven reports so valuable and interestingUsing a 3rd party company to collect data vs. collecting data yourselfHow to package and present data in a compelling wayLearn more about GoodtimeConnect with Cynthia on LinkedInMemorable Quotes:"So, front loading the investment in getting good, clean, accurate data that really points to your prospect audience. I think it's, I think it's sort of a foundational element for a really solid data driven content strategy""Are you giving your audiences truly useful content? , is it interesting? Is it unique in some way? So spending a lot of thought and time before you even get into designing the survey or creating the survey, thinking about how this content is really gonna serve that audience, and then how you're going to get it out to that audience over and over and over again."The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, generates TONS of content, and grow revenue. Learn more at connversa.comThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 4, 2023 • 11min
Humanizing a highly technical topic w/ Ryan Raiker
Ryan Raiker, Vice President of Marketing at AYR, talks with Jeremy about humanizing a highly technical/scary topic.Highlights:Why the company changed its name from Singularity Systems to AYR (Are You Ready)Tips for developing messaging that connects with your audience's emotions, not just their intellectLearn more about AYRConnect with Ryan on LinkedInMemorable Quotes:"Most people actually look at themselves as an important cog in the wheel of technology. They're not just looking at performing mundane tasks or looking to build technology from a, just a technical perspective, pretty much everyone is looking to make an impact in the world, in their employer, their work and really having an emotional connection to work.""It's kind of like finding that passion, finding that purpose. Most folks want to have a desire to go to work, not to just sit in a chair and kind of crunch numbers or perform codes. So even the most technical people really get behind the idea that AI can transform the world"The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 3, 2023 • 12min
Building a framework for measuring content marketing ROI w/ Dan Lawrence
Dan Lawrence, Head of Growth Marketing at Wrk, talks with Jeremy about building a framework for testing content.Highlights:Defining "growth marketing," i.e. using data to pinpoint what's working and to keep improving content performanceDoing content marketing like a scientist, i.e. building out hypotheses, running experiments, and measuring hypotheses against the dataHow to build a framework to test hypothesesLearn more about WrkConnect with Dan on LinkedInMemorable Quotes:"It's constantly building out hypotheses based off of what the goals are. And what the growth levers are that you need to pull based off of attaining those goals. And then really you're analyzing data after this, after you run experiments and seeing what works, what doesn't work, gathering feedback and then using that feedback to implement more permanent structures so you can build growth on top of that next""You draw out the entire customer life cycle and you map off the touchpoints of a customer life cycle and you sit down as a leadership team and and you figure out areas that you believe from an assumption or hypothesis perspective that could increase conversions or could help you get quicker to your goal as soon as possible"The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, generates TONS of content, and grow revenue. Learn more at connversa.comThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 29, 2022 • 18min
TikTok, AR, VR, Twitter Spaces, and other emerging content types w/ Kelly Johnson
Kelly Johnson, Sr Director of Content Strategy and Web Strategy at Lever, talks with Jeremy about the promises and perils for B2B marketers of investing time and resources in emerging content types, including TikTok, augmented reality, and virtual reality.Highlights:The promises and perils of build content on "rented land," i.e. platforms that may not have a long shelf lifeDealing with security concerns on new platformsHow can B2B marketers use immersive experiences like VR? May be too soon to tell ...Learn more about LeverConnect with Kelly on LinkedInMemorable quotes:"So I think that's a concern with any platform, to be honest with you. That's not your own. You always have to evaluate how much time and attention and investment you wanna make in it before if it should go away, you lose that appendage, so to speak, or that tool in your arsenal to create an audience""One of the challenges I've heard TikTok had was the purported breach that basically exposed some private data. Cybersecurity analysts discovered a breach of an insecure server, that allowed TikTok storage to be exposed and which contains, personal user data, so that type of security breach gives me pause"The B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 28, 2022 • 16min
Getting prospects to see your vision of what's possible w/ Martin Morzynski
Martin Morzynski, SVP of Marketing at StreetLight talks with Jeremy about getting customers to see your vision of what's possible.Highlights:The importance of approaching marketing from an educational standpoint when introducing a new category to the marketThe huge value of customer testimonialsThe value of guesting on other podcastsLearn more about StreetLightConnect with Martin on LinkedInThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, generates TONS of content, and grow revenue. Learn more at connversa.comThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 27, 2022 • 19min
Creating a marketing strategy in a multi-brand context w/ Tom Flierl
Tom Flierl, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amla Commerce, talks with Jeremy about creating a content marketing strategy in a multi-brand context.Highlights:Strategies for managing marketing for two brands simultaneouslyHow managing b2b marketing is like coaching a winning basketball teamThe importance or recruiting the right talent to execute your content marketing playbookLearn more about Amla CommerceConnect with Tom on LinkedInThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, generates TONS of content, and grow revenue. Learn more at connversa.comThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a b2b content agency that helps you showcase your special sauce and get your ideal customers to know, like, and trust you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.