Look Left @ Marketing

Each year, thousands of content marketers make their way to Content Marketing World to gain insight from a wide variety of experts. For the first time, the show moved from its original home in Cleveland to Washington, D.C. Look Left’s David Sprague and Skylar Cohen spent two days attending multiple sessions that covered many emerging—and traditional—content-related topics. To no one’s surprise, the most talked-about topic was generative AI, which has created a whirlwind of disrupt...

For those dwelling on the dirt and worm sides of rocks, the term “generative AI” probably doesn’t spark a conversation. For the rest of us, there hasn’t been a day over the last year when we didn’t talk or read about it. Almost every company is trying to figure out where they fit into the AI conversation and how to use it to their advantage.As a B2B tech marketing and PR agency, we get a ton of questions about generative AI from our clients (but not our moms—they still don’t understand what w...

For B2B tech companies, rebranding exercises are incredibly involved and require expert teamwork, creativity and decision-making. Look Left recently underwent a rebranding, and we decided to use the podcast to share some of our most important learnings.Look Left’s David Sprague, Liesse Jayalath and John Masserini offer lessons learned from the Look Left rebrand project and touch on other topics like expanding AI budgets and (ridiculous) child-to-parent litigation stories. 3:07 - David, L...

Cybersecurity expert Deb Radcliff returns to the Look Left @ Marketing podcast. Since 1996, Deb has been embedded in the hacker and law enforcement communities learning the techniques, lifestyles, and philosophies that make them unique.This conversation covers current cybersecurity topics as well as Book 2 of Deb’s exciting Breaking Backbones trilogy, which is now available. Deb still writes articles and does research, and she hosts the Cy Beat podcast from ITSPmagazine. Here are some hi...

Over the past 45 years, Wayne Rash has covered every inch of the tech space. Among his many notable posts, Wayne was executive editor at eWEEK, eWEEK.com, and Ziff Davis Events. He was a senior contributing editor and a senior analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center. Additionally, Wayne worked as a reviewer for Federal Computer Week and Information Security Magazine. He also ran the reviews and events departments at CMP's InternetWeek and was a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine. Today, ...

Welcome to the second part of our conversation about aligning content with lead generation. In the previous episode, Bryan Scanlon and Matt Raven examined the ways that different types of content appeal to prospects at different stages of the sales funnel. In this episode of the Look Left @ Marketing podcast, the sixth in our content marketing series, Bryan and Matt take a look at pillar pages and the importance of focusing on retention after a customer is on board. Here are a few of the high...

One of the primary objectives of a B2B content marketing program is to attract the attention and interest of potential customers. There are a lot of factors to be considered—after all, certain content may be more effective with prospects at different points in the sales process. In this episode of the Look Left @ Marketing podcast, the fifth in our content marketing series, Bryan Scanlon and Matt Raven provide insight and suggestions for B2B companies looking to properly produce c...

The 2022 RSA Conference returns June 6-9 in San Francisco and online. Two people who know a thing or two about the evolution of security are Jill Aitoro, SVP of content strategy for CyberRisk Alliance and editor in chief for SC Media, and Bill Brenner, VP of custom content at CyberRisk Alliance. Jill and Bill joined Look Left’s Davida Dinerman to preview the upcoming show and to dig into what they’re looking forward to:01:17 - The excitement of returning to live events03:25 - What Jill and Bi...

The RSA Conference, the world’s leading information security conference, will hold its annual cybersecurity conference June 6-9 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. 50,000 people in the industry -- from vendors and company executives to policymakers and academics -- will converge to talk about current and future cyber and privacy concerns, ideas and solutions.In this episode of the Look Left podcast, Davida Dinerman speaks with award-winning cybersecurity and privacy journalist Mathew Schw...

HIMSS22 takes place March 14 - 18 in Orlando, Florida. As always, thousands of people in the industry -- from vendors, clinicians and health system executives to policymakers and patient advocates -- will participate in person or via the Digital Experience. In this episode of the Look Left @ Marketing podcast, Davida Dinerman chats with John Lynn, founder of HealthcareScene.com, and Colin Hung, chief marketing officer and editor of HealthcareScene.com. John and Colin have been at ...