Jay Acunzo on: talking your customers' language

Jay Acunzo on: talking your customers' language

30/09/2016

 

30/09/2016

 

Jay Acunzo on: talking your customers' language

WRITTEN BY

Tony Hallett
Managing director

Tony set up Collective Content in 2011 so brands can more easily become publishers and tell stories. This built on 15 years in media, from reporter to publishing director at Silicon Media Group, CNET Networks and CBS Interactive.

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“Actually talk to your customers. Use the language that they use. Talk about the things they talk about. Never feed salad to a lion.”

Jay Acunzo, Vice President, NextView

 No one is going to forget the line “never feed salad to a lion”, right? But that’s not why this is a great quotation. This sums up what’s great about great content marketing: that at its centre is the customer, not you. Let’s remember that as we picture an unhappy lion chomping down on his Caesar’s.

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