NICK BERGHANE
LeafLink · Content Marketing Manager · 2021–2022

LeafLink content program

Building useful, revenue-accountable content in a complex regulated B2B marketplace.

The core story

Content was not treated as volume. It was built around market understanding, buyer relevance, and measurable commercial value.

At LeafLink, I built and ran a vertical B2B content program for a regulated cannabis marketplace, creating market-specific educational content, product-led lead generation, and sales enablement for different stakeholder groups.

Program impact
$2.5M+ARR driven by the 2022 content program
+55%blog page views
+53%unique visitors

Context

A regulated B2B marketplace serving different cannabis-industry stakeholders, each with different priorities, terminology, and buying contexts.

What I did

Built and ran a vertical content program spanning research-heavy long-form content, product-focused lead generation, sales enablement, web and campaign content, and stakeholder-specific messaging.

Output

A content system that supported revenue and sales conversations while also growing the owned editorial audience and producing reusable proof assets for marketing and applications.

How the program worked

  • Segment by market reality: Create vertical-specific content for different stakeholders instead of forcing one generic B2B message across the marketplace.
  • Make education commercially useful: Use research-heavy content to answer real market questions while keeping the path to product value and sales relevance visible.
  • Connect content to sales: Develop sales enablement and product-focused assets that helped prospects understand the offer and move through the funnel.
  • Measure the program, not just output: Track audience growth and revenue contribution at the program level rather than confusing content volume with business performance.
  • Write inside regulatory complexity: Operate in a compliance-heavy, rapidly changing cannabis market where accuracy, nuance, and stakeholder context mattered.

Selected proof artifact

Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide 2022. A research-heavy long-form B2B guide I authored as part of the broader LeafLink content program.

The $2.5M+ ARR figure is a program-level result. I do not claim that this single guide independently generated that revenue.

Why this work matters

The work shows that I can research and write inside a complex, regulated market without flattening the subject, while still building content around buyer needs, product relevance, sales use, and measurable business outcomes.