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

Linda M.

Content provider, freelance writer/editor

The Copy Worx

Helping B2B health, fitness and SaaS businesses increase conversions through high-converting copy.

Health & Fitness Copywriter 

Writer

Contributing editor and writer for national, custom, corporate and online publications including TIME, The Huffington Post, Health, MSN, NBC, The Today Show, and many others. Specialties include fitness, health, business/corporate, ghostwriting, nutrition and recipe development.

Ageless After 50

Coaching and online fitness programs and memberships for women over 50

Online course creator / fitness

OC Metro Magazine

I wrote cover stories, features and various columns (including a health & fitness column and another on e-Commerce).

Business columnist and feature writer

Conversion-focused messaging for health & fitness brands | Driving engagement for JRM Web Marketing | Laughter is my love language

I create memorable, conversion-focused copy for health and fitness brands. Why me over other fitness copywriters? For one, I spent 15 years in the trenches as a personal trainer. I then worked my way into becoming a prolific health and fitness magazine writer. Earned a couple of awards along the way.

I interviewed hundreds of people and experts in the process.  It's why I'm able to translate fitness geek speak into relatable, understandable solutions.

My byline appears in heavy-hitters like MSN Health, TIME, Shape, Self, Woman’s Day, Men’s Fitness, Bowflex, and HuffPo, I've got a knack for understanding what people really want. 

Let's chat about how we can make your content resonate and get those decisions rolling in your favor.

My specialties include:

1. Value Proposition Audit and Strategy Roadmap

Most companies struggle with converting copy that showcases their uniqueness. My proprietary process, based on research, decision-making psychology, analytics, and customer interviews, uncovers what sets your solution apart from the rest. This special messaging audit will give you clarity, attracting more of your ideal customers in less time.

2. Email Marketing

My email sequences get noticed and opened, with clients typically experiencing a 45-50% open rate. By writing in your customer's voice, they trust you and see you as the solution they need.

3. Landing Pages, Sales Pages, Opt-ins, and More

Whether it's a landing page, email, or event brochure, I start with a deep dive into the emotions of your target audience, understanding what keeps them up at night–and what they would pay anything to be free from.

Results of my work include:

➡️ A 5-email sequence that landed a client a $70k contract 
➡️ A homepage makeover resulting in a 44% lift in page conversions
➡️ A 30% boost in opt-ins for a lifestyle program 

Ready to achieve similar results? DM me for more details.

Linda
📩 Email: Linda@TheCopyWorx.com
📞 Text/Call: (949) 233-0450

B2B Copywriter and Marketing Strategist

Helping B2B businesses increase conversions through high-converting copy.

"Knowing your audience" doesn't mean what you think it means.

It's NOT about their income level, state of residence, or whether they shop at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's.

Just because they can afford you or live in your hometown doesn't mean they'll buy from you.

Copy that converts requires emotion. If the reader doesn't feel anything, you may as well write your copy in hieroglyphics.

Knowing your audience is about:

🤕 The problem that lurks in the back of their mind every day - like a headache that's not quite a migraine but puts them in a perpetual bad mood.

🙁 It's a thing they've nearly given up on resolving but believe there's a solution they haven't yet discovered.

👉 It's about spending time in their shoes, walking through their day and seeing how this problem affects their lives.

This requires empathy. 

It's the only way to write copy that shows them you understand them so they trust you - and believe you can help them.

#copywriting #marketing #fitness

Linda Melone

It's never too early for pumpkin pie. 🥧 

As a former pastry chef and bakery owner (yes, for real), I baked a lot of pies.

A lot. 

And one thing I discovered around the holidays: 

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬. 

Forget Pumpkin Mousse Cheesecake... or Pumpkin-Pecan Pie... or any other artistic twist on the classics.

It's pumpkin pie or bust. The creative versions never sold.

I also realize the same approach to assembling a pie can also apply to copywriting.

You can change some of the ingredients but if you forget the basics, you're taking risks you may regret.

Here's a formula that never fails to bring in your ideal audience...

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