🟡Top OFFERS Right Now! Business-Consumer-Non-Profit 🟡 Jay is Annoyed! Ask Us ANYTHING ❓ | Ep. 401
Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson
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4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Q4 is looking different this year, and Jay Schwedelson explains why the usual playbook of urgency and discounts won’t cut it. From content tweaks that can boost B2B downloads by 30% to consumer offers framed around “prices will rise,” Jay lays out what’s actually working right now—and why. Plus, a quick detour into football, tailgating, and why baseball might just be the most boring sport of all time.
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Best Moments:
(01:27) Why adding 2026 to your B2B content titles instantly lifts results
(03:15) Listicles, toolkits, and playbooks outperforming standard “guides”
(04:10) Using the word “trend” for a 15% engagement boost
(05:13) Why “prices will rise” messaging is beating standard discounts in consumer offers
(06:30) Nonprofits should be upfront about rising costs in Q4 appeals
(08:15) Sports are too long and baseball is impossible to defend
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Do This Not That, the podcast from marketers. |
| 0:05.1 | We share quick tips, things you can do right now, and then we add a little bit of chaos at the end of every episode. |
| 0:11.7 | We also keep it short, like this intro. Let's check it out. |
| 0:16.0 | We are back for Do This Not That podcast presented by Marigold. |
| 0:20.8 | This is our short episode. We're all in long. We get in questions. We get in work questions. We get in ridiculous questions. We try to tackle one of each. And if you want to be an awesome human, you could submit a question. Just got to go to jschwedelson.com. There's a button that says podcast. Another one that says, ask us anything. And that's where we get our question. So the stupid or more ridiculous, the questions, the better. But before we get |
| 0:41.5 | to the stupid ones, not that they're stupid, they're amazing. Let's do the work question. We got a |
| 0:46.7 | question from Jesse from San Jose. I dig San Jose. I actually right near San Francisco, where I'm |
| 0:53.1 | headed to for inbound in a few days. |
| 0:55.7 | That's the big event put on by HubSpot. You know, whenever I travel, first of all, I hate checking a bag, |
| 1:01.3 | but I'm going for such a long time that I have to check a bag. And why are bags made so heavy? |
| 1:09.2 | There's no way you could fill up a bag of any size |
| 1:12.5 | and not have it go over the limit |
| 1:14.1 | because the bag itself is like 400 pounds. |
| 1:16.7 | There needs to be a rule that a bag itself can't weigh something |
| 1:21.3 | because what is the point of buying the bag? |
| 1:24.2 | What am I talking about? |
| 1:25.6 | What's the question? Sorry, Jesse. Jay, we just had our internal |
| 1:31.1 | meeting for our Q4 marketing offers. Are there any specific content formats or trends |
| 1:37.4 | specific to this year that you think will generate an extra boost in performance that we |
| 1:42.3 | should be thinking about. Excellent question. |
| 1:45.5 | So let's break this down for business and then consumer. |
| 1:48.9 | And we'll even throw in some nonprofit for our nonprofit friends out there. |
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