The slowdown is real. What you do with it determines how you perform in the fall.
By Linda Pophal, MA, SPHR · Strategic Communications, LLC
Summer content strategy is the practice of adapting a content marketing program to account for predictable seasonal shifts in audience attention, engagement, and buying behavior that occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day—while using the slower period strategically to build content assets that drive results in the high-engagement months that follow.
For most B2B marketers, summer presents a genuine planning challenge: audiences are distracted, decision-makers are harder to reach, and content that performs well the rest of the year often underperforms between June and August.
I’ve managed content programs through enough summer cycles to know that the worst response to the seasonal slowdown is to keep doing what you’re doing and expect different results.
The second worst response is to go quiet entirely and then scramble to rebuild momentum in September.
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