Liam Moroney

Co-Founder, Storybook Marketing | Full-service demand generation agency

I lead Storybook Marketing, a consultancy that specializes in brand marketing strategy, to help companies become the brand that buyers think of, using an evidence-based approach to marketing.

We offer customized services, consulting, team workshops and training, to level up marketing programs so they are capturing market share and not just leads.

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I'm launching a new content series, and I'd love to invite you to be part of it.

It's called Understanding Demand - not the tactics we do in demand generation, but rather how demand itself works from the market perspective.

Demand is not created by marketing, but by consumers and the market itself, and when the conditions of the market are different, it impacts the effectiveness of marketing more than anything we do.

My belief, and the culmination of my marketing experience, is that when we better understand the market and how it operates, we can do more effective marketing that reflects it.

This series will strongly be part of the content I produce here on LinkedIn, but I'm expanding it into long-form content across a podcast, video series, newsletter, and blog posts to cover topics in more depth.

If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, sign-up to the mailing list and I'll share the content and updates directly:

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Brand Marketer | Storybook Marketing | MarTech contributor

There's a famous quote from the economist John Maynard Keynes, that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

He was speaking about investing but it has just as much application to marketing, because many a better product has come and gone, failing to change the status quo.

The majority of the market, as it often turns out, will embrace the status quo for a lot longer than the quality of incumbent options would have challenger brands believe.

Change usually happens at the fringe edges of the market, by those risk-tolerant few who are seeking better or segments who are much more underserved than the majority. 

The amount who make up these groups depends a lot on the category, and the current economic conditions surrounding it. But it's here at the fringes of categories that disruption occurs and often where it remains, leaving the center intact.

This is the reality of markets, and it can feel like irrational behavior to those trying to deliver better solutions to real problems.

It's also where marketing is uniquely positioned to help the company succeed. 

Marketing has, sadly, been reduced in its scope across industries, and a major consequence is the inability to develop strategy at a market-level.

We hyper-target for conversion, trusting technology and AI to find the exact people who want to buy a product like ours, but over time have lost the skill to know why many of those same people are unlikely to do so.

Markets are hard to change because most people actively resist risk and change until the cost of doing to becomes higher than the status quo or until a new status quo arrives. 

Budget can easily run out when trying to cause that change through conversion efforts, even when armed with a better product and a strong offer.

The real solution is for marketing to better understand the market - especially about who in it are underserved or unsatisfied and may provide the entry point. And, from there, what needs to happen through brand marketing to prevent a lifetime at the fringe.

That all happens when marketers can gain a bird's eye view of the market in the form of research and understanding, and how to navigate the market dynamics that can feel so very irrational to the non-marketers at the executive table.

There's a very big difference between trying to get someone to start thinking of you and preventing them from forgetting you - and a lot of the brand marketing we talk about is the latter.

Big brand campaigns, the ones that win awards and make waves in the marketing community, usually come from established brands who are trying to create new relevance through playful messaging and exploration of the brand assets.

It's fun to see and discuss, and plenty hard to do well, but it's also the outlier example of what brand marketing usually is.

It has also skewed a lot of how companies think about brand marketing, with it being often thought of as the fun, quirky, and expensive campaigns that rarely if ever talk about the product.

It's no surprise that brand gets neglected in budget talks in favor of more performance marketing when seen only like this.

The truth is that most effective brand marketing is delivering very product-centric messaging, and so it can be easily confused for performance kind - and made ineffective by being pushed to act more like it in the CTA and measurement.

Brand marketing isn't all about trying to make people feel things about you, while performance is about getting them to take action and buy you. 

That's a false choice where one will obviously win out over the other.

Rather, good marketing promotion is about trying to get as many people to know who you are, what you do, and when to think of you, and then performance is all about making sure you don't miss the opportunities that come along as people are ready to act.

That's brand and demand as a cohesive promotional team, working as a combo that is bigger than the sum of its parts.

As opposed to a false set of options you need to choose from, where one is fuzzy and wasteful and the other delivers results efficiently. 

No such reality exists that leads to being a big brand.

💥 Messaging that does justice to your solution.
🔥 Copy that resonates with your ideal buyer.

Sounds simple, right? 

And yet, in B2B tech, so many things get in the way:

❌ Agencies turn your website into a billboard — stroking boardroom egos but causing web visitors to bounce.

❌ Product marketers get too close to the product — forgetting to connect the dots for your ideal buyer.

❌ Too many cooks in the kitchen — causing your copy to get more cliche with every iteration.

And let's not forget:

❌ Everybody’s sycophantic ChatGPT is adding their two cents.

Well, I can help.

My process doesn’t just involve deep discovery, VoC research, and messaging strategy. 

I make the experience painless (and peaceful!) for your team. 

We’ll establish which stakeholders are involved and how they’ll contribute. So from Day 1, everyone knows what to expect and who's got the final say.

How do I do that?

➡️ Live or async Figma walkthroughs
➡️ Friendly but firm management of stakeholder feedback
➡️ Constructive handoff to design with creative direction

Here’s what clients say ⤵️

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“She had this way of making people feel heard, managing different opinions and keeping everything moving forward at the same time. … She wireframed the pages so we could see exactly how the copy would actually work on a website in reality. And that's something that really saved us a lot of time when it came to design. She would record these short videos explaining … how the research shaped the structure. And those videos would make it really easy for everyone across the company, across different time zones to get aligned with what was happening.” — Christopher Garrett, Chief Revenue Officer, Hushmail 

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“Vesna is strategic, mindful of nuance, a keen observer and a very good synthesizer of the most relevant pieces of information that matter to the reader. She is very knowledgeable of what makes websites great vs meh. … In the age where AI is actively displacing writing talent, Vesna’s expertise in crafting the right story and delivering the right message that matters is so refreshing (and renders AI helpless).” — Nadia Davis, VP of Marketing, CaliberMind

As for results? 📈

“ Within about three weeks of launching our new website, we've seen, depending on how you measure it, a 20 to 35% increase in our sales revenue.” — Christopher Garrett, Chief Revenue Officer, Hushmail


Whether your goal is more demo requests, more free trial starts, or more plan signups, I’ll work with you to boost conversions with better, bolder, buyer-aligned B2B copy. 🎯

Vesna M. – B2B Copywriter

Too good not to repost.

This is valuable for everyone.

- B2C, B2B
- Freelancers, consultants, and solopreneurs
- Startups
- Mature companies & orgs
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What a cool framework!

Vesna Miro

🟣 Fixer of mediocre messaging for B2B SaaS, tech, cybersecurity // 🟠 Home - product - pricing - demo - landing pages & LinkedIn ads that convert jaded buyers // 🥇 Copyhackers Certified SaaS Copywriter

Illustrator • Graphic Designer • Fluffer of Ideas

This is it my friends. This is the year. The year you finally decide to pull up your elasticated (although now slightly perished due to overuse) underpants and sort out that branding of yours.

No longer will you sit in envy, surrounded by sodden tissues, watching as others smash it/crush it/pummel it (delete as appropriate) with their fancy branding.

This year, you’re taking them all on by turning your company branding into a fecking masterpiece.

“But Dave, I know nothing about this branding malarkey, where on earth would I even begin?”

You begin right here 👇 Right down there 👇 On this here video I’ve just uploaded 👇 On you go 👇

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