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Doug Kessler | Creative Director

Started on Madison Avenue, at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Quickly moved from Dove and American Express to meatier stuff like AT&T, LIFFE, Gartner and BT Global Services. Moved to London in 1990. Freelance copywriter for a few years, migrating upstream to marketing consulting. Started Velocity with Stan Woods in 2001.

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Social Success: a new content site for Salesforce.com

We’re inordinately proud to announce the launch of a new microsite by Salesforce UK that Velocity helped with. The site is called Social Success and it’s all about helping businesses harness the power of social media. Our job was…

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February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »

Velocity’s B2B content marketing research trip to Paris

To stay at the cutting edge of B2B content marketing you can’t just sit in your office. So Velocity decided to get out of London and discover how B2B content marketing works for B2B content marketing agencies over in Paris,…

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December 19th, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Unethical persuasion in B2B content marketing: a call to all ‘compliance practitioners’

Persuasion victim after viewing the cover of 'Influence'

I finally got around to reading, “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D. It’s a summary of the secret techniques used by what he calls ‘exploiters of the weapons…

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December 6th, 2011 | No Comments »

B2B content marketing: when target audiences clash

Marketers are instinctively inclusive. Our default is to set our crop-sprayer on the widest possible setting, covering the largest possible audience for everything we do.

But content marketing is different. The best content marketing tends to be narrowly targeted, focusing…

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November 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Doug's latest paper

The B2B Content Marketing Tutorial

A roll-up-your-sleeves guide for marketers

If you’ve read the B2B Marketing Manifesto or the Content Marketing Workbook, you’re already hip to the power of B2B content marketing.

But you need a bit of practical help on the process side of content…

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March 28th, 2011 | 14 Comments »

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