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How to Build a Content Strategy That "Drives Pipeline"

54 min episode · 2 min read
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Sarah Latanzio

Episode

54 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Career Growth, Investing, Fundraising & VC

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Key Takeaways

  • Expert collaboration framework: Took nine months to identify four key internal experts willing to contribute. Success came from finding people already active in industry associations or posting on LinkedIn, then making contribution easy through structured interviews rather than asking them to write.
  • Content production system: Replaced blank templates with detailed outlines containing target keywords, paragraph structure, and graphic placements. Experts provided thirty-minute recorded interviews that were transcribed and edited, reducing their time investment from two days to one hour per article while maintaining quality.
  • Topic cluster strategy: Built content clusters around specific business offerings rather than top-of-funnel topics. Example: Swiss data privacy law cluster included comprehensive guide, legal requirement deep-dives, GDPR comparison, and expert roundup, all interlinked with service pages, generating measurable consulting deals.
  • Cross-functional workflow: Involved designers and social media managers during article drafting phase in shared Google Docs, not after completion. This parallel workflow created automatic repurposing where each H1 became carousel content, eliminating post-publication planning meetings and accelerating time-to-market significantly.

What It Covers

Sarah Latanzio explains how she built content strategy at a 700-person Swiss consulting firm by interviewing internal experts, creating topic clusters around business priorities, and establishing streamlined production processes that reduced expert time commitment while driving measurable pipeline.

Key Questions Answered

  • Expert collaboration framework: Took nine months to identify four key internal experts willing to contribute. Success came from finding people already active in industry associations or posting on LinkedIn, then making contribution easy through structured interviews rather than asking them to write.
  • Content production system: Replaced blank templates with detailed outlines containing target keywords, paragraph structure, and graphic placements. Experts provided thirty-minute recorded interviews that were transcribed and edited, reducing their time investment from two days to one hour per article while maintaining quality.
  • Topic cluster strategy: Built content clusters around specific business offerings rather than top-of-funnel topics. Example: Swiss data privacy law cluster included comprehensive guide, legal requirement deep-dives, GDPR comparison, and expert roundup, all interlinked with service pages, generating measurable consulting deals.
  • Cross-functional workflow: Involved designers and social media managers during article drafting phase in shared Google Docs, not after completion. This parallel workflow created automatic repurposing where each H1 became carousel content, eliminating post-publication planning meetings and accelerating time-to-market significantly.

Notable Moment

Latanzio presented two timelines to her business unit: one showing scattered, inconsistent content initiatives from the previous year, and another showing three months of strategic, interconnected content. The visual contrast immediately convinced skeptical stakeholders that structured content marketing differed fundamentally from random promotional posts.

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Episode Transcript

What happens if you take three struggling freelance marketers, lock them in a seventeenth century cottage, and don't let them live until we fix their businesses? In August, I rented an old cottage in rural Ireland and invited copywriter Rob, ecommerce designer Laura, and book coach Vicky, three freelancers desperate to stand the fuck out. And over two days, I ripped everything apart, their offers, their messaging, their branding, their lead gen, to find what was really holding them back. This is the concept of a new YouTube channel that I'm launching. You can watch the first episode for free right now. It's half an hour long. It's supposed to be entertaining as well as practical. I hope you'll enjoy watching it. So please set half an hour aside to watch it around your morning coffee, breakfast, lunch break, or on the bus or at the gym, whatever. The link to access this new YouTube channel is in the episode show notes. I really, really appreciate you taking the time to watch it. And then, you know, the usual to like it, comment, to share, talk about it around you if you like it. Thank you so much. Well, first of all, I was never really hired to do content marketing fully. Right? So it's something that I do because I really believe in it and because I think nowadays, it's just the modern way to do marketing. Marketing. Right? And so I have mostly worked in sales led companies. So more like enterprise, I would say, ABM type of play where, obviously, without sales, you just cannot move forward with which I would say there is less pressure to deliver results now. But obviously, it's also a bit harder to to demonstrate the impact of every single marketing initiatives, which for me has never been a problem because thankfully, I was never in one of those companies. I feel that's probably more an American thing where you are always, like, with a with a knife at your at your, yeah, neck or something. But, basically, I really realized that we have such great minds and experts that were very far away from marketing and had all this knowledge in their heads, obviously, as usually in tech companies. And I would say the the biggest thing thing I've done is really teach them about what it is to bring out all that knowledge and how to do it and how to do that strategically. Bonjour, bonjour, and welcome to another episode of everyonehates marketers.com, the no fluff actionable marketing podcast for people sick of marketing bullshit. I'm your host, Louis Grenier. In today's episode, you'll learn how to build a content strategy that truly drives pipeline. My guest today is a b two b marketer who, like me, is a very contrarian figure, should I say, in our space. I like the way she talks about her expertise quite simply and how she stands out in a sea of people …

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