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Just when you thought the Apple Cosa Nostra couldn’t have its fingers in more pies (or i’s) the iPad arrived…

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Lucy Longhurst | June 11th, 2010 | no comments

The value of story? About 2,776%

We’re always talking about how important a story is in marketing — but now someone has finally proven it with an ingenious experiment.

As summarised in a recent DoubleThink post, the…

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Doug Kessler | May 28th, 2010 | 4 comments

We’re all B2B content brands now

We just did a guest post for the excellent B2BBloggers on how we’re all becoming content brands now — and some tips for how to build a strong B2B content…

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Doug Kessler | May 10th, 2010 | 2 comments

When was the last time you flossed?

In B2B as in life, there’s a whole genre of pains-in-the-arse that nobody ever talks about: things that are really annoying but not quite annoying enough to actually force you…

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Doug Kessler | April 27th, 2010 | one comment

Velocity gets medieval

I have to confess to having no real reason for this, except that it’s spring and I always think of these lines from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales…

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Lucy Longhurst | April 13th, 2010 | no comments

We explain ourselves – in infographics

As you’ll know if you got our newsletter we’re big fans of infographics over here. We got inspired by all of these and decided to have a go ourselves. This is…

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Lucy Longhurst | March 26th, 2010 | one comment

Exploiting your tacit knowledge

We’re always a bit sceptical about the jargon du jour. But one buzzword keeps cropping up and we think there might be a reason: Tacit Knowledge.

Tacit knowledge, first conceptualised…

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Gesu Baroova | March 2nd, 2010 | 5 comments

You can have it done right, cheap, or quick. Pick two

Fortunately, it’s very rare that we ever get a client who doesn’t understand that you can’t have all three at once. Yet it’s still something that a lot of agencies…

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Lucy Longhurst | February 1st, 2010 | no comments

IBS injects Velocity into turnaround

When we met them in 2009, IBS, the specialist ERP vendor, was in turnaround. They’d just finished a major restructuring to focus the entire global business on one sector, wholesale…

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Lucy Longhurst | January 22nd, 2010 | no comments

Why CIOs don’t belong on the board

We did a fascinating interview with IT industry evangelist and FT.com columnist Ade McCormack yesterday (watch this space) and he shared some controversial ideas about CIOs and IT departments being…

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Doug Kessler | November 18th, 2009 | no comments

Diary of a Tweet: Clarity vs Twitterjunk

The birth of every every new communications medium is followed by a period during which the underlying technology actually cramps the communication it’s supposed to be enabling.  When it comes…

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Doug Kessler | November 13th, 2009 | 3 comments

Brevity is the soul of traffic safety

Pet peeve: signs that desperately need a sub-editor.

This one uses nine words where… none would do (the number 30 when posted on the roadside pretty much says it all).

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Doug Kessler | October 14th, 2009 | one comment

Quick Case: when content goes social

Gotta love Twitter…

It’s been about four months since we published the B2B Content Marketing Workbook and we thought we’d report back on how the campaign has worked so far. It…

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Doug Kessler | September 30th, 2009 | no comments

Microsoft marketing hits new low

Oh. My. God.

We’ve given Microsoft’s marketing a hard time in this blog before and we’ve also had some nice words to say about them.  But this one takes the cake:…

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Doug Kessler | September 28th, 2009 | one comment

Join us for a Demand Generation Webinar

An illustrious panel

Stan Woods will be taking part in what’s shaping up to be an excellent webinar on Innovation in Demand Generation and we thought you, as a loyal Velocity…

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Doug Kessler | September 24th, 2009 | no comments

B2B blogging for beginners

Let’s face it: these days, if you don’t have a blog on your website you’re admitting that you have nothing to say about your market, your customers, their problems and…

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Doug Kessler | September 14th, 2009 | no comments

Recent papers

The B2B Content Marketing Workbook

Content Marketing is probably the single most important weapon in the B2B marketing arsenal. This eBook takes you through velocity’s approach to the art. Download it and see what you think…

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Doug Kessler | June 9th, 2009 | 16 comments

A B2B Social Media Checklist

You’ve just published a great piece of content. Don’t just stick it on your website. Use social media to drive people to it (and vice versa). Here’s a one-page checklist to help you socialize your content, driving traffic and downloads…

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Doug Kessler | March 12th, 2009 | 2 comments

The Benefit Hierarchy in corporate positioning & corporate message development

Managing the relationship between value and credibility is the key to good corporate positioning and corporate message development…

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Doug Kessler | November 25th, 2008 | 9 comments

Riding the Hype Cycle

Gartner’s Hype Cycle maps a curve that describes the way new technologies become adopted by the marketplace over time. Here’s how you should ride it to your advantage…

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Roger Warner | July 10th, 2008 | 5 comments