ScaleCrush

Think about the last time you bought something. 

Why did you buy?

I'll tell you: because it helped you do something. It solved a problem for you.

We help B2B software brands reconnect their products to the problems they solve.

Most brands market on features and benefits.

This is the business equivalent of going on a date and saying "I'm so beautiful and muscular. And I can do a handstand. Marry me."

How good is your dating game? Mine is terrible, but it sure is better than that.

The traditional approach to content starts with keyword research and ends with regurgitated, fluffy content that no one wants to read but somehow ends up ranking.

We flip that on its head.

We start with the end: what do people need?

What problems do you solve?

And don't hit me with: "We help people save time, effort and money" because that's not good enough.

Our framework is easy: 

- Audit
- Build
- Scale

Audit your market, your customers, your existing assets to determine the best course of action.

Build a strategy based on your existing content, the new content you need and how it needs to be delivered.

Scale your content production with quality content instilled with your expertise and your narrative.

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What problems do WE solve?

We help B2B software companies turn a necessary evil into their greatest marketing asset.

CEO, Founder

Self-Employed

SEO Consultant - Top Rated Superstar

GreenGalileo Media

SEO Consultant

I help tech leaders figure out what marketing should look like ╏ Evidence-Based-Marketing Advocate ╏ Cargo Bike Enthusiast

5 pm on what's becoming a tedious and rainy Thursday night.

You're sitting at your desk, anxiously looking at yet another reporting dashboard.

As you parse all the jargon-filled graphs, you are once again grabbed by that feeling of despair: "if that's not working, what should we do?"

"What's our next move?"

You feel like you've tried it all: LinkedIn, Product Hunt, G2/Capterra, Slack Communities, Demand Generation.

Heck, you even hired that 10k/mo LinkedIn Ads agency last summer, thinking they'd bring you the growth you needed.

When you take into account the 30k that you paid them, it's all even.

With a bit of shame, you remember that 4k/mo cold outreach agency that did the same the summer before.

"What's the key to all of this?", you ponder, "H come marketing seems so easy on LinkedIn, but so hard in reality?"

"Should we go harder on demand generation, or ramp up our paid spend even more? Maybe if we switch creative agencies our creative will convert better."

You don't know it yet, but now's the time for the hard-to-swallow pill.

As you reflect back on your last few months or even years, you get filled with fear, and an impending sense of doom: did you really do any marketing?

You did everything the LinkedIn gurus told you to do - is it time to stop listening to them?

"How do brands grow?"  
"Why do people buy?"
"Who should I trust?"

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I can answer those questions.

1 - Brands grow by being mentally and physically available.

In other words, memorable and easy to get.

2 - People buy because whatever you have to sell solves their problems.

If it doesn't, you'll have to create a problem for them or convince them that it does indeed solve a problem they already have.

3 - You shouldn't trust anyone on the internet who has something to sell - me included.

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But hear this out: you most likely haven't done any real marketing work to date.

What you've done is saw together a Frankenstein monster that you call marketing: part ads, part email outreach, part webdesign, part community building.

Now that monster is alive, and it's frightening.

Marketing isn't a collection of tactics - it has 3 parts: Diagnosis, Strategy, and Execution.

Most companies do #3 without ever thinking about #1 and #2.

This is what I help them do.

Check out our website to find out more :)

Vince Moreau

Ryan Paul Gibson

content lift

We help B2B businesses run investigative customer interviews,
so they can build a more qualified pipeline,
and avoid wasting money on go-to-market activities that don't influence buyers.

We map out a customer's entire journey in their own words.
We find the hidden reasons people are buying your product.

The data helps you make smarter choices with marketing budgets. 
It helps uncover ideas for messaging, campaigns, content and copy.  

All the stuff we do: 

* Primary Buyer/Market Research 
* Voice of the Customer Work
* Brand Perception & Identity
* Subject Matter Expert Interviews

Founder

RPG Marketing 

I work with B2B marketing teams as a fractional senior marketer,
helping build, launch and maintain marketing programs.

The benefits of hiring a part-time senior marketer are:
* Flexibility: I can work on a variety of projects, rather than one deliverable 
* Cost savings:  A senior skill set without an increase in headcount
* Dependability: I'm in independent contributor who can balance strategy and execution

My specialty is research, content and product marketing.
Some of the projects I've worked on for clients:

* Buyer & market research, gathering insights to create new personas and messaging
* Development of content strategies to support the entire customer lifecyle 
* Thought leadership and strategic narrative development with C-Suite 
* Sales enablement programs
* Copywriting for paid search, landing pages and other high-conversion content.
* Traditional PR activities with trade media and other communications tasks 
* Original research for whitepapers, ebooks and other content formats 

Happy to chat, walk you through these various projects and see if I can help in any way.

Fractional Senior Marketer

Invest Ottawa

I teach early-stage entrepreneurs the fundamentals of customer discovery. We cover: 

- different methodologies like Jobs to Be Done and Lean Canvas 
- different types of customer research
- how to define your research objectives and find potential buyers
- how to conduct 1:1 interviews with examples from projects I've run

Mentor - Customer Discovery

GrowthMentor

Mentor - Customer Research 

Rewind

Working with the CMO and the rest of the marketing team, I help the company refine it's go-to-market strategy and oversee special projects.

Senior Marketing Consultant

Managing content team & company strategy.

Head of Content (Interim)

Helping the company with Messaging, Content, PR & Branding as they build out their core team. I have led or assisted in the following projects: 

* Messaging frameworks for multiple products
* Customer research  
* Content strategy
* Tone & voice documents
* Audits & analysis of organic channel performance 
* Overseeing contract writers
* Creation of lead magnets (Reports, Ebooks, etc)
* Customer case studies 
* Content for product launches
* Sales enablement materials

Senior Marketing Specialist

Perth Brewery

Giatec | Smart Concrete Testing Technologies

Member of the senior leadership team, reporting directly to CEO.

Led development of annual operating plan for marketing, ensuring marketing activities aligned with overall business strategy.

Oversaw a team of six direct reports, responsible for Lead Generation (SEO, PPC, Content), Social Media,  Graphic Design and Web Development.

Worked with the product, sales and customer success teams to refine the go-to-market strategy and positioning of core product lines.

Created preliminary key messaging documents, brand guides and buyer personas.

Interviewed customers for success stories and content ideas; during tenure as manager, organic traffic increased on average 175% YOY.

Built relationships with industry analysts and trade media; successfully achieving media coverage goals in annual operating plan. 

Oversaw execution of tradeshows and events.

Worked with designers and UI/UX to improve customer experience and increase conversions on key landing pages.

Copywriting for google ads, landing pages and other high conversion content.

Marketing Manager

Entrepreneurs, Tech, Jobs. Rinse. Repeat.

Helped shape and execute marketing plans, to meet the strategic objectives.

Oversaw creative development of local, national and international campaigns.

Chief architect of the “Work in Ottawa” Campaign, which generated over six million unique impressions through our digital tactics.

Member of Amazon HQ2 Task Force Marketing Committee

Senior Marketing Strategist

Manager, Marketing & Content Strategy

Dan Rascal

P/T with Ottawa's strongest & spiciest video creative agency. 

http://danrascal.com/

Consultant

Northern Army

I help B2B businesses run customer interviews that don't suck / Founder @ content lift 🎈

Today B2B buyers spend most of a buying journey,
figuring stuff out on their own.

They spend weeks, months or years.
Trying to solve problems.
Evaluating solutions.
Trying to determine what’s credible.
What makes sense for them? 

Data from your dashboards & CRMs can help. 
Yet it’s a fraction of the buying story.
And this data typically measures the end.

Marketing teams have to influence the ENTIRE buying journey.
If you don’t have a detailed understanding,
of HOW and WHY you best fit buyer buys,
Then you will FAIL to influence their buying decisions.

In-depth customer investigations (aka interviews),
are the best process for reverse engineering the buying journey.
And the best source of data,
To build marketing & sales programs that win new business. 

Yet B2B teams struggle with this.
They tell me:

- We don't have experience in it
- We don't know how to be unbiased
- We struggle with how to use the insights
- We don't have the bandwidth
- We don't want to bother our customers
- We did it before and hadn't seen the value
- Honestly, it can be intimidating

It's hard out there for a marketing team
Always guessing.
Always spending $$.
Rarely moving the needle.

🤔 HOW I CAN HELP:

I help B2B marketers run better customer research interviews 🕵️‍♂️

After working with me you will have:
*  A reversed engineered buying journey, in the words of your ideal client
* A list of the business triggers & motivations for your target buyer (ICP)
* Insights on how to spend marketing $$$
* Possible solutions and action items for each insight
* Fresh messaging, campaign & copy ideas.

🤔 HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER:

There are three ways:
* I can run a turnkey research project for you ($$$)
* I can interview your customers & hand over the content ($$)
* I can teach you how to do it ($)

You can read my ONE case study in my "Features" section.

🤔 WHY ME:

I've logged 21+ years in Marketing, Branding & Communications.
I spent 3 years working as an investigative reporter.
I've interviewed over 1900 people in my career.
I've worked with over 100 businesses of all shapes and sizes.

👋 SAY HELLO!

- Feel free to DM me here on LinkedIn
- Send an email to ryanpaulgibson@contentlift.io
- Visit my website: https://www.contentlift.io/

We help B2B marketing teams run investigative customer interviews. 

We map out a customer's entire journey in their own words.
We find the hidden reasons people are buying your product.

The data helps you make smarter choices with marketing budgets. 
It helps uncover ideas for messaging, campaigns, content and copy.  

All the stuff we do: 

* Primary Customer Research 
* Brand Perception & Identity
* Subject Matter Expert Interviews

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Ryan Paul Gibson

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