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Content Amplified is all about how to get more out of your marketing content. Each 15-20 minute episode gives you one new way to get more out of your marketing content. We interview industry experts to give you new perspectives and ideas that will level up your content like never before.Episodes are released weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

10 HR AGO

Why the AI silver bullet isn't fixing your revenue problem

The old gated-ebook playbook stopped working around 2018, and slapping AI on top of it isn't going to bring it back. In this episode of Content to Close, Matt Zelasko, founder of growth agency Radish and self-described "Tom DeLonge of RevOps," makes the case that most teams are using AI to do the same broken things faster, then blaming AI for the falling engagement that was already happening. Matt walks through why content is saturated, why "intelligence" is the wrong word for what an LLM actually does, and why understanding how the technology works (it's speculating what comes next) is what finally unlocks its real use. He shares his shift from prompt engineering to context engineering ("what else do you need from me?"), why he turned down a client who wanted an AI agent to write case studies but said yes to one who wanted an agent to write RFPs, and how creative people can use AI without losing the ideation work that makes the output good. If you're tired of AI hype and want a sharper view on where it actually belongs in revenue generation, tune in. About Matt Matt Zelasko runs Radish, a horizontal growth agency that helps clients "do more rad shit" and take the next step in their growth. He's spent longer than he'd like to admit in the agency, marketing, and RevOps space, and is better known on LinkedIn as "the Tom DeLonge of RevOps." Matt is opinionated, willing to be proven wrong, and believes you can take the work seriously without taking yourself seriously. Before running Radish he worked as a copywriter, and still leans on old-school habits like writing 50 to 100 taglines by hand before reaching for any tool. Show Notes - Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewzelasko/ Text us what you think about this episode!

18 min
1 DAY AGO

Why authentic creator content sells (and brands keep killing it)

The content that actually sells often gets rejected in the first round of brand approval. In this episode of Content Amplified, Chelsea Clark, founder of Momfluence, shares what six years of running creator campaigns for over 500 brands has taught her about the gap between content that performs and content that gets approved. Chelsea explains why influencers are actually terrible at making polished ads, why the "speak to your audience like a friend" line in every brief almost never survives review, and why 80% of influencer-driven revenue never shows up in attribution software. She breaks down how to position creator work as an awareness and content-library play instead of a direct-ROI channel, why campaign-wide promo codes beat per-influencer codes, and the case for retargeting the same audiences with creator content across Meta, TikTok, and email. She also gives a step-by-step zero-to-one playbook for any brand that wants to dip a toe in: find three brands your customer already buys from, mine their tagged content, and gift fifty creators under 10K followers. If you've ever wondered why creator content keeps underperforming in your funnel, this episode names the real problem. About Chelsea Chelsea Clark is the founder of Momfluence, a creator platform she has run for the past six years that connects brands with mom creators for content and social campaigns. Momfluence has worked with over 500 brands and roughly 10,000 creators across categories from baby and skincare to tires, mortgages, and services. Chelsea's background isn't traditional marketing, she previously owned a restaurant chain, and she built Momfluence after struggling to find a cost-effective influencer platform focused specifically on moms. She points out that women influence roughly 80% of purchase decisions, which is the demographic bet the whole business is built on. Show Notes - Connect with Chelsea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-clark-momfluence/ - Momfluence: https://www.momfluence.co/ Text us what you think about this episode!

18 min
2 DAYS AGO

How to build a B2B creator program that drives pipeline, not just reach

Most brands treat influencer marketing like an ad buy. Hand over some money, get a sponsored post, hope for awareness. In this episode of Content Amplified, Justin Levy, Director of Social Media, Influencer Marketing and Community at Nerdio, breaks down what an actual creator partnership looks like and why so many B2B teams leave pipeline on the table. Justin explains why the "only work with nano influencers" advice misses the point, how to stack a single partnership across LinkedIn, TikTok, newsletters, podcasts, and even internal sales trainings, and the per-creator UTM setup that ties revenue back to individual posts. He walks through how to mine the comments on a sponsored post for live leads, when to bring sales reps into the engagement, and the negotiation levers that actually move price: timeframe, platform count, name image and likeness usage, and minimum boost spend. If you've ever wondered whether B2B influencer marketing can do more than drive impressions, Justin gives you the playbook. About Justin Justin Levy is the Director of Social Media, Influencer Marketing, and Community at Nerdio. He brings about 20 years of experience in social media, influencer marketing, and community building, having worked at several Fortune 500 companies and consulted with everything from startups to Fortune 50 household-name brands. Justin has helped companies move from their first social strategy all the way to building influential communities and stables of creators. He is especially passionate about going into organizations and building creator programs where none existed before. Show Notes - Connect with Justin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinlevy/ Text us what you think about this episode!

20 min
3 DAYS AGO

Why personalization is dead and anticipation is the next era of marketing

Personalization is still reactive, and that is why it stopped working. In this episode of Content Amplified, Katie Carroll, VP of Product Strategy at Businessolver, makes the case for moving past variable tags and behavioral triggers into anticipation: helping people before they know what to ask. Katie walks through findings from Businessolver's eighth annual Benefits Insights Report, including the counterintuitive idea that "quiet" (no clicks, no engagement, no support tickets) might be the real success metric, and how an in-house AI hit 91% instant resolution by reading the path a user is already on. She uses concrete examples (an HSA nudge after a pediatrician visit, an auto-enrollment in a prescription management program, a Social Determinants of Health lookup that connects a parent to childcare) to show what anticipation looks like in practice. She also explains why AI SDRs flopped, why marketers have to lean hard into data analytics in 2026, and why the easiest brand to interact with is the one that wins. If you want a practical starting point for building anticipation into your marketing, this one is for you. About Katie Katie Carroll is the VP of Product Strategy at Businessolver, a benefits administration tech company that powers the platform employees use to enroll in their benefits. She has spent her whole career in tech, starting on the consumer side at companies like eBay before moving into B2B, which gives her a rare cross-pollinated view of how people actually want to interact with software. Katie sees the healthcare and benefits space as a personal mission, drawing on the universal frustration most Americans have with the system to push her team toward more anticipatory, helpful user experiences. Show Notes - Connect with Katie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie--carroll/ - Businessolver Benefits Insights Report: https://businessolver.com/benefits-insights/ Text us what you think about this episode!

17 min
15 MAY

How to build a sales and marketing feedback loop that actually works

Most marketing teams hand sales a stack of brochures and never hear back. In this episode of Content to Close, Nat Norris, VP of Marketing and Customer Success at Model 1 Commercial Vehicles, breaks down how his team gets out of the trophy case of unused white papers and into the rooms where deals are won and lost. Nat walks through how he embeds marketers inside the company's three sales segments (public, commercial, and retail), why he forces his team into weekly quote review and deal loss meetings, and the data hygiene work he had to do in Power BI before any of it could function. He also shares the FAB framework (Features, Advantages, Benefits) he carried over from his catalog days, with a simple rule: push the benefit, self-serve the feature. And he closes with the two governors he uses to decide when there's enough data to act: the 80/20 rule and the "front page of the newspaper" worst-case test. If you've ever wondered how to turn marketing collateral into something sales actually uses, this one's for you. About Nat Nat Norris is the VP of Marketing and Customer Success at Model 1 Commercial Vehicles, a nationwide commercial dealership selling work trucks, cargo vans, school buses, and shuttle buses. Based in Indianapolis, Nat has spent about 17 years in B2B marketing for equipment, with stops in e-commerce and large holding-company environments before landing at a single-family-owned business. His group leads marketing, customer experience, product information, customer care feedback, and inside sales lead qualification. Nat is a self-described data and dot-connecting nerd whose old product-management instincts shape how he thinks about content, storytelling, and what salespeople actually need in the field. Show Notes - Connect with Nat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natnorris/ Text us what you think about this episode!

19 min
14 MAY

Why your KPIs aren't relationship material

Stop chasing the customer and make the customer chase you. In this episode of Content Amplified, Trisha Navidzade, VP of Marketing at DZYNE Technologies, breaks down why most marketing KPIs are "KPI fluff" and how to swap booth-traffic and view counts for revenue-driven metrics that sales actually cares about. Trisha explains how she flips the usual sales-and-marketing conversation: instead of asking sales what brand awareness they need, she asks what's blocking them from closing, then designs press, content, and digital campaigns around those specific blockers. She walks through why press is her number-one source of qualified leads in a defense-industry sales cycle that can run two to three years, how to "read the room" and bundle news so it's relevant to publications' audiences, and the weekend-meditation question every marketer should sit with: "How do I get the customer to come to me instead of me chasing the customer?" If you're tired of presenting trade-show view counts to your CEO and want a sharper way to connect marketing activity to revenue, this conversation is for you. About Trisha Trisha Navidzade is the VP of Marketing at DZYNE Technologies, an autonomous defense contractor that builds drones and counter-drones designed to protect, defend, and save lives. She started her career in the surf industry in brand and sales roles before transitioning into aerospace about 17 years ago, where she sold space tickets, tried to sell trips to the moon, and worked across the satellite industry in B2B and business-to-government sales. She recently moved into the drone space, which she calls one of the hottest places to be in the industry today. Trisha believes the best marketers stop chasing customers and instead build the press, content, and digital presence that pulls qualified leads in. Show Notes - Connect with Trisha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishanavidzadeh/ Text us what you think about this episode!

13 min
13 MAY

Why product marketing teams should be structured like newsrooms

When your G2 category has 97 listings and the average is 75, sounding like everyone else is a death sentence. In this episode of Content Amplified, Mike McGee, Director of Product Marketing at Vantaca, explains why he's building his PMM team to look less like a traditional org chart and more like a digital newsroom, with product marketers assigned to specific customer roles the way reporters are assigned to beats. Mike walks through the inspiration (Nilay Patel's Decoder, the Brian Chesky episode on how Airbnb blended product, PMM, and program management), the internal precedent at Vantaca (support and implementation already reorganized around customer roles instead of platform modules), and the Seth Godin "who's it for, what's it for" lens he uses to pressure-test every messaging decision. He also gets honest about when not to overhaul an org: look at what's predictable and replicable first, find the gaps, and only do a major restructure when there's no tenable way to get from where you are to where you want to go. If you're scaling a PMM team and tired of inheriting your competitors' pitfalls, this one's for you. About Mike Mike McGee is the Director of Product Marketing at Vantaca, where he leads the team responsible for messaging and go-to-market in community association management software. Mike got into marketing through customer success, spending several years managing the largest customers at a property management software company and learning how to translate one-on-one relationships into one-to-many storytelling. He joined Vantaca in May of 2025 and is currently scaling the PMM team from two people to five. Mike believes in breaking the rules when the rules just inherit your competitors' pitfalls, and he comes back constantly to the question of whether the team is serving customers to the utmost of its potential. Show Notes - Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepmcgee/ - Decoder with Nilay Patel (referenced episode: Brian Chesky on Airbnb's product/PMM/program management restructure) Text us what you think about this episode!

20 min
12 MAY

Why nobody cares how the sausage is made (and what marketers should do instead)

Nobody wants to know about the space-age polymer in your product. They want to know what it's going to do for them. In this episode of Content Amplified, independent creative director Orin Bliss Brecht draws on a career that started at Spin Magazine and ran through Victoria's Secret Direct, the Foundry at Time Inc., Hearst, Pace Communications, and Choreograph to make the case that demystifying complex topics is the marketer's real job. Orin explains why illustrators make the best translators of complicated subjects (they aren't subject matter experts, so if they get it, the audience will), why the B2B vs. B2C distinction is mostly noise (you're always telling a story to a human about to spend money), and why one of the biggest mistakes he's seen is letting product developers shape content aimed at C-suite buyers. He closes with a tactical playbook: turn your elevator pitch into eight elevator pitches, write in plain English, and feed the pipeline with snackable breadcrumbs that lead back to the master manifesto. If your product is hard to explain, this one will sharpen how you think about telling its story. About Orin Orin Bliss Brecht is an independent creative director with a background in branded content and content marketing. He started in print magazines as a graphic designer at Spin Magazine and went on to work at Austin Monthly, Victoria's Secret Direct, the Foundry at Time Inc. (on accounts including Lincoln Continental, Geico, and Ram Trucks), Hearst (Esquire, Popular Mechanics) on clients like Verizon, California Closets, and Jim Beam, Pace Communications leading creative strategy on the Verizon 5G account, and most recently Choreograph, an ad tech and martech company that needed a conversational, approachable point of view as it moved customer-facing. Orin believes the best translators of complex subjects are the people who aren't subject matter experts, and that good storytelling has worked the same way for hundreds of years, only the format keeps shrinking. Show Notes - Connect with Orin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orinbrecht/ Text us what you think about this episode!

14 min

Content Amplified is all about how to get more out of your marketing content. Each 15-20 minute episode gives you one new way to get more out of your marketing content. We interview industry experts to give you new perspectives and ideas that will level up your content like never before.Episodes are released weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

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Masset - Content Amplified
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2023 - 2026
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451
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