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What’s white, invisible, invaluable and online now?

No search returns!

By that I mean the empty returns so many B2B websites deliver to their users.  They’re actually gold dust.  They allow us to extract value from exactly nothing. …

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Neil Stoneman | January 29th, 2010 | no comments

The rise and rise of B2B content marketing

Content Marketing is rivaling social media marketing in the hype stakes — and for good reason. It may not be particularly new, but in the age of the informed buyer…

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Doug Kessler | January 26th, 2010 | no comments

2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions

ClickPredictions 2010
View more documents from Ambal Balakrishnan.

There she is. The 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions eBook from ClickPredictions — a crowdsourced effort by “39 of the world’s…

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Doug Kessler | January 22nd, 2010 | no comments

Should free B2B content hide behind a form?

The debate rages on: is it better to ask people to fill out a form to download your content (chasing shy people away) or maximise downloads and go without a…

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Doug Kessler | January 18th, 2010 | no comments

Our New Year’s B2B Marketing Resolutions

Inspired by Neil’s resolution “to eat breakfast every morning”, I got everyone at Velocity to give me their B2B marketing resolutions. So here are the new year’s resolutions from the…

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Lucy Longhurst | January 8th, 2010 | 3 comments

In Which The Hero Helps SmallWorlders Sell Intranets To Marketers

We’ve been working with a great company called SmallWorlders. They produce smart, sociable intranets for marketing types. Their Sandbox™ platform, hosted model and marketing-savvy service teams combine to deliver the…

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Lucy Longhurst | January 6th, 2010 | no comments

Velocity Does Video: Nine kinds of B2B web video

As this quick showreel demonstrates, we’ve been doing more and more video for our B2B marketing clients. Why? because it’s a great way to get even the most complex ideas…

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Doug Kessler | December 18th, 2009 | one comment

Low-tech videos for a high tech product

We love these Google Features videos on YouTube. Most tech demonstration videos are all high-tech flash with little icon men and screen shots and slick animations.  These are the opposite:…

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Doug Kessler | December 18th, 2009 | no comments

How often do you need to publish content? 1-7-30-4-2-1

Content Marketing is like publishing — you need an editorial calendar and a bit of discipline.  This guest post on Junta42 by Russell Sparkman of Fusionspark Media talks about how…

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Doug Kessler | December 4th, 2009 | 2 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

16 ways to alienate a B2B buyer

Most B2B marketing doesn’t just fail – it actively repels the people it’s trying to attract.  In other words, most B2B marketing would deliver better results if it didn’t exist…

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Doug Kessler | November 10th, 2009 | no comments

B2B marketing predictions for 2010

We were recently asked where we thought B2B marketing would go in 2010.  Made us think. So here are some predictions for the next year:

THE KIND-OF-OBVIOUS PREDICTIONS:

Content Marketing will…

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Doug Kessler | November 6th, 2009 | 6 comments

Lethal Generosity: a key principle of social media marketing?

According to the Harvard Business Review, 90% of tweets are generated by just 10% of Twitter users. Apparently this is a higher concentration than for Wikipedia and much, much higher…

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Stan Woods | November 5th, 2009 | 3 comments

You can’t have a conversation when you use a megaphone

Selling to B2B customers has been changed forever by the Internet. A truism maybe, but it’s surprising how many B2B marketing organisations are still structured  as they were in the…

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Stan Woods | October 29th, 2009 | 5 comments

The Velocity B2B Marketing Tube Map

The B2B Journey Planner

We’ve always loved Harry Beck’s legendary design for the London Underground Tube Map, so thought we’d do our own version mapping out the B2B marketing landscape. Kind…

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Doug Kessler | October 19th, 2009 | 4 comments

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

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

Ghost in the machine: who should write your blog?

There’s a debate in the blogosphere about whether it’s right for a blog to be ghost-written, particularly one advertised as being written by a particular author. Rather than get exercised…

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Stan Woods | August 27th, 2009 | one comment

All CIOs (or CEOs) are not the same

We’re often asked s for creative ideas that target ‘the C-suite’ - CEO, COO, CFO, CIO and so on. It’s natural because these guys are usually the ones to sign…

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Stan Woods | August 13th, 2009 | no comments

The Web Form Wall

It’s a perennial debate: give your content away with no registration (web form), or force people to give you their details to get the goodies.  Both arguments are compelling.

We tend…

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Doug Kessler | August 6th, 2009 | 4 comments

V Shortlisted for Glittering B2B Gong

We’re pleased as Punch to have been shortlisted for a B2B Marketing Magazine Award for our recent work with ShipServ.  It’s hard to come over all surprised about it -…

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Doug Kessler | July 10th, 2009 | no comments

The white paper is dead…or is it?

At a webinar I presented the other day  I  said that while white papers were still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B.…

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Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | 2 comments

The Content Marketing Workbook

It’s here. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook.  Over 45 breezy pages of good, solid advice about thought leadership and content marketing…

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Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments

Watch the Velocity web seminar on Content Marketing

Stan just presented our web seminar with B2B Marketing magazine, called “Content Marketing: Thought Leadership in a Web 2.0 World”.  Seemed to go really well.

Over 130 people attended and the…

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Doug Kessler | June 3rd, 2009 | no comments

Join us for our new Content Marketing Webinar

Traditional, interruption-based marketing is dead (or dying fast).  The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.  And while a lot of marketers think that’s what they’re doing when they crank out…

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Doug Kessler | May 27th, 2009 | no comments

Why we steal from our clients.

In the marketing world, agencies are supposed to be the ‘creative’ ones and clients are supposed to be the dullards who are grateful for a fresh source of ideas.  In…

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Doug Kessler | May 6th, 2009 | one comment

How strong is your B2B positioning?

 

Positioning is one of the essentials of B2B marketing but it’s very rare to see it done well. It’s a simple idea: as a marketer, you should explicitly manage the…

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Doug Kessler | April 16th, 2009 | 3 comments

Clean tech marketing and green tech marketing: a different kind of B2B

We’ve recently worked with a handful of companies that offer clean technologies or green technologies (or both if SEO is important to you) and we’ve noticed some issues that they…

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Doug Kessler | April 7th, 2009 | no comments

Don’t get lost on the mobile Web: a mobile marketing e-Book

We just completed a new e-Book for our client dotMobi on mobile content discovery. Called ‘Don’t get lost on the mobile Web’, you can find it at www.mobithinking.com, the online…

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Stan Woods | March 26th, 2009 | no comments

ROI and social media marketing for B2B

One of our clients is talking to us about  spending budget on creating online buzz. Naturally, she’s thinking hard about how to justify what is effectively a new cost line…

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Stan Woods | March 19th, 2009 | 4 comments

Who needs editors?

Google has dis-intermediated the content business.

You don’t have to hire a PR agency to kiss the arses of the editors any more.

You just have to generate content that people really…

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Doug Kessler | February 5th, 2009 | 2 comments

Slugwatch: the power of content marketing

We were just having a really thought-provoking conversation about content marketing with Andrew Findlater and Hooman Bassirian from Reed Business and they told us about Slugwatch, a service for UK…

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Doug Kessler | January 16th, 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 | 13 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 | no 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