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Busy Execs CAN Create Content (5 Easy Habits)

28 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

28 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Remote Work, Fundraising & VC

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Key Takeaways

  • Monthly recording sessions: Marketing teams should bypass executives and work directly with their executive assistants to schedule recurring 30-minute content sessions on the calendar. During these sessions, marketers pose 10-15 prepared questions while the executive provides answers that get repurposed into social clips or written posts, eliminating the executive's need to think about content planning.
  • Slack channel for ideas: Create a dedicated Slack channel where executives can quickly post raw thoughts, observations from events, podcast takeaways, or voice notes throughout their day. Content marketers then filter and refine these ideas into polished content, allowing executives to capture inspiration without worrying about formatting or final presentation while giving marketers authentic material to work with.
  • Bookend strategy for content time: Reserve the first 30 minutes of the executive's day for content creation when energy and clarity are highest, or use the final 15 minutes to capture real-world stories and client interactions from that day. This dedicated time becomes a recurring habit that either feeds the Slack channel with ideas or serves as weekly recording time once monthly sessions prove valuable.
  • Outsource trend monitoring: Marketing teams should actively follow industry keynote speakers, book authors, and influencers on social platforms, then feed executives commentary opportunities on trending topics. Leverage existing engagement metrics from popular YouTube videos, Reddit threads, or viral posts to identify proven-interesting topics where executive commentary will resonate with target audiences already engaged with the subject.
  • Scripted series production: Develop branded video series where executives read teleprompter scripts researched and written by the marketing team, requiring minimal executive preparation. Frame series around recognizable brands or tools the audience knows, making research easier and content more engaging. An eight-episode commitment feels manageable to executives while producing substantial content that can be repurposed into micro-videos and trailers.

What It Covers

B2B executives struggle to create content despite its proven value for building market presence. The episode presents five habit-stacking methods that marketing teams can implement to help time-constrained executives become consistent content creators without adding significant burden to their schedules or causing burnout.

Key Questions Answered

  • Monthly recording sessions: Marketing teams should bypass executives and work directly with their executive assistants to schedule recurring 30-minute content sessions on the calendar. During these sessions, marketers pose 10-15 prepared questions while the executive provides answers that get repurposed into social clips or written posts, eliminating the executive's need to think about content planning.
  • Slack channel for ideas: Create a dedicated Slack channel where executives can quickly post raw thoughts, observations from events, podcast takeaways, or voice notes throughout their day. Content marketers then filter and refine these ideas into polished content, allowing executives to capture inspiration without worrying about formatting or final presentation while giving marketers authentic material to work with.
  • Bookend strategy for content time: Reserve the first 30 minutes of the executive's day for content creation when energy and clarity are highest, or use the final 15 minutes to capture real-world stories and client interactions from that day. This dedicated time becomes a recurring habit that either feeds the Slack channel with ideas or serves as weekly recording time once monthly sessions prove valuable.
  • Outsource trend monitoring: Marketing teams should actively follow industry keynote speakers, book authors, and influencers on social platforms, then feed executives commentary opportunities on trending topics. Leverage existing engagement metrics from popular YouTube videos, Reddit threads, or viral posts to identify proven-interesting topics where executive commentary will resonate with target audiences already engaged with the subject.
  • Scripted series production: Develop branded video series where executives read teleprompter scripts researched and written by the marketing team, requiring minimal executive preparation. Frame series around recognizable brands or tools the audience knows, making research easier and content more engaging. An eight-episode commitment feels manageable to executives while producing substantial content that can be repurposed into micro-videos and trailers.

Notable Moment

One host shares how perplexity aired its first television commercial during a football game featuring Jim Harbaugh at a press conference, demonstrating how AI tools are becoming mainstream resources for content ideation. The commercial showed Harbaugh confidently answering any question posed to him, illustrating how AI can remove friction from the content creation process for busy executives.

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Episode Transcript

Executive calendars are a battlefield. Back to back meetings, endless emails, last minute fires. With twenty five hours of task packed into a twenty four hour day, it seems impossible to squeeze in one more thing, let alone content creation. So how can executives become content creators without burning out? Today, we're unlocking five simple game changing habits that empower marketers to help their executives not just create content, but own the conversation in their industry. So, Benjie, we talk about this all the time on B2B Growth. You know, 97% of your market is not in market to buy right now. And so when you think about execs creating content, they're not it's it's not just about getting more followers on LinkedIn or Instagram or whatever. You're building mind share. You talk about, like, trying to get on someone's day one list. Yep. And you do that by creating content. I heard David Gearhart say the other day, like, it's there's no more, like, content marketing. Content is marketing. And it always has been. It always has been. And so, you know, but but we hear this, you know, we we we hear it all the time, and we always get this pushback. It's like, I'm on the marketing team, and I know the value. We just heard about it in that beam report. Right? Like, I know the value of having our subject matter experts, of having our executives involved in our content, but they're too busy. Or they're worried about public perception, and they're worried about saying the wrong thing, and so they just won't do it. So what are your thoughts? I mean, the the struggle is real because there is a a clear breakdown between content marketers or the marketing team at large knowing the value of the subject matter expert that's on the team or the exec and what it would look like for this person, public face of the company, or person with all this industry experience to be more active on LinkedIn, to be pushing out their thoughts over video or or in a podcast, whatever. But the constant struggle of where does this fit into our calendar, how do we actually get them one, we gotta sell the vision to them of, like, this is worth your investment. Even if the company is growing right now, like, this is a long term play, there's a lot to talk about just in convincing your exec that this is worth the effort that it's about to take them. Then there's the second part of, like, what are the easy habits we could actually do now to to effectively make this work. And we know the value of it. Right? Like, you've seen the value of it with your personal LinkedIn profile. And the other side of it too is, like, even if you're not getting a ton of likes, I've really started thinking about content as a bank. You are putting in day …

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  • YouTubeRecommended
    Leverage existing engagement metrics from popular YouTube videos, Reddit threads, or viral posts to identify proven-interesting topics where executive commentary will resonate with target audiences already engaged with the subject.
  • RedditRecommended
    Leverage existing engagement metrics from popular YouTube videos, Reddit threads, or viral posts to identify proven-interesting topics where executive commentary will resonate with target audiences already engaged with the subject.
  • One host shares how perplexity aired its first television commercial during a football game featuring Jim Harbaugh at a press conference, demonstrating how AI tools are becoming mainstream resources for content ideation.
  • SlackRecommended
    Create a dedicated Slack channel where executives can quickly post raw thoughts, observations from events, podcast takeaways, or voice notes throughout their day.

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