In this episode, we’re pulling marketing lessons from Alix’s rise with the help of Elizabeth Strickert, Director of Content Marketing at A-LIGN.
Together, we explore what B2B marketers can learn from staying consistent, growing with (not past) your audience, and making content that’s actually fun to create.
Going viral might get you noticed. But consistency is what makes you unforgettable. And no one proves that better than Alix Earle, a TikTok star who turned daily “Get Ready With Me” videos into a personal media empire.
In this episode, we’re pulling marketing lessons from Alix’s rise with the help of Elizabeth Strickert, Director of Content Marketing at A-LIGN.
Together, we explore what B2B marketers can learn from staying consistent, growing with (not past) your audience, and making content that’s actually fun to create.
About our guest, Elizabeth Strickert
Elizabeth Strickert is Director of Content Marketing at tech-enabled cybersecurity and compliance company A-LIGN. There, Elizabeth is leading content, thought leadership, comms & customer marketing.She has overhauled their SEO program, resulting in top 10 ranking for high-difficulty, high-volume keywords. She also led the creation of an annual benchmark report, reaching 3 million+ impressions. She leverages internal thought leaders for social media, videos, webinars, speaking opps and written content. She previously served as Director of Communications & Content at Ekos and Marketing Communications Manager at Passport.
“ We think, B2B, it needs to be polished, it needs to be sanitized. But the story is the interesting part. That's where someone can relate to it. That's where somebody can get hooked in. That's why you care. And I think a lot of times we forget about that.”
“We want B2B content to be polished. Sanitized. But the story — that’s the interesting part. That’s what people actually relate to. We forget that too often. The story is why people care.”
“ I think it’s good to be a consumer. As a marketer, you're putting content out in the world, you need to consume it. But…you don’t need to be going to a B2B workshop. You can watch TikTok. You can watch people like Alix Earle and other folks and get inspiration from what their doing. You can look at what YouTubers are doing. Everything people are doing is a marketing decisions and there’s things you can take away from that.”
“Influencers start off because they thought, ‘Oh, it’d be kind of fun to make a video.’ That’s the initial nugget. And as marketers who, for a living, have chosen to create content and do marketing. We also need to think, ‘Hey, it'd be a little fun to make a video.’ That’s where the start of it has to come from.”
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