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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.…

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| November 23rd, 2011 | 2 comments

First Impressions: On landing pages and landing in general

I’m the new guy, freshly landed at Velocity Partners, and this is the new guy post. Taking the theme “you never get a second chance to make a first impression”…

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| April 11th, 2011 | one comment

B2B content marketing around buying triggers

There are lots of ways to build your content marketing strategy -- around personas, products, organisational structure... We'd like to suggest a new way to go: build your content around your most important buying triggers.

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| March 10th, 2011 | 4 comments

B2B Marketing Agency campaign in a scribble

We were mapping out the B2B Marketing Manifesto campaign on a sheet of A4 lined paper and this is what was left behind on the meeting table. Pretty much all there.

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| October 22nd, 2010 | 4 comments

The B2B Marketing Manifesto: hot off the press

“This is without a doubt the most exciting time in history to be a B2B marketer. It’s also the scariest.” That’s how our new eBook, The B2B Marketing Manifesto…

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| September 21st, 2010 | 4 comments

Ten Tips for Cross-Promoting your Content, Part II

As B2B marketing content libraries start to grow, we all need to think about how we cross-promote our content to people who have already engaged with us.

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| August 2nd, 2010 | no comments

The power of B2B Lead Nurturing

The sales team owns the sales funnel. But as a B2B marketer, you feed the top of their funnel. So you own your company’s revenue…

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| February 17th, 2010 | 5 comments

B2B web marketing: the platform battle

As B2B web marketing comes of age, a battle is brewing between some pretty big players (and a few upstarts) over who will become the primary dashboard for marketers. The three combatants: CRM, CMS and marketing automation vendors.

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| February 8th, 2010 | 8 comments

2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions

Drumroll please... Introducing The 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions eBook from ClickPredictions -- a crowdsourced effort by "39 of the world's top B2B marketers, e-mail marketers and social media gurus" (including, erm, me). Ambal Balakrishnan, the tireless ClickDocuments founder, asked each of us a straightforward question, “What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?”

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| 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…

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| 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…

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| 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…

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| January 6th, 2010 | no comments

Let us march!

My favourite quote from Ogilvy On Advertising is, "When Aeshines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks'. When Demosthenes spoke, they said, 'Let us march!'"

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| December 15th, 2009 | no comments

Quick Case: when content goes social

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 was the first time we've used social media as a vector for our content marketing and so makes a nice case study.

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| September 30th, 2009 | 2 comments

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 the cheques, particularly for significant purchases. But the question implies that these people are pretty much all the same in what they do and how they think and behave. In our experience, this isn't true.

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| August 13th, 2009 | no comments

The white paper is dead…or is it?

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they're getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. A few people were so incensed they contacted me to say I was talking nonsense. So click here to find out whether they changed my mind...

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| June 16th, 2009 | 3 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 for B2B marketers like you. Come and get it!

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| June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments

Choose your patients carefully

The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates. But they don't have the best survival rates because they're better surgeons. They have the best survival rates because they choose their patients very, very carefully. Here's why B2B marketers should do the same thing...

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| June 8th, 2009 | no 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 feedback was excellent. The seminar is based on our imminent Content Marketing Workbook, which you'll be able to download from this site very, very soon...

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| 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 case studies and white papers, most of them really aren't doing it at all. Our new webinar explains all...

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| May 27th, 2009 | no comments

ShipServ wins First Tuesday ‘Most Promising Internet Company 2009′

We swelled with pride yesterday when our client ShipServ won First Tuesday's prestigious 'Most promising Internet Company in the UK 2009' award. First Tuesday logo

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| April 29th, 2009 | one comment

Web personas and Mind Maps

Like most good digital agencies, we've been exploring web personas for a while and we've found them to be a critical aid to great site design. If you do them thoroughly, personas mean you can develop better sites faster, ones that meet the needs of your customers, prospects and other stakeholders more effectively. They force everyone to think about what users might actually want to do when they visit your site and then shape the design accordingly.

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| April 22nd, 2009 | 5 comments

Simple Steps To A User Focused Site

We never tire of building websites. The sheer pace of technology change means no two sites are the same. But the same old battles are usually just round the corner.

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| April 20th, 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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| March 19th, 2009 | 5 comments

Postcreditcrunchism: marketing is the measure of all things

The history books will look upon the credit crunch as an agent of dramatic change. Marketing, for one, will never be the same again. It's probably for the best.

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| March 16th, 2009 | no comments

Digital Velocity in eight tweets: accelerate your online engagement

B2B marketing has become almost synonymous with digital marketing. If you're not getting your story out on the web, you're probably not getting your story out at all. Now, as social media beds down and Twitter takes off, we thought it would be a good time to summarise all the things we do to help our clients engage with their audiences online.

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| March 8th, 2009 | no comments

Recent papers

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

The B2B Marketing Manifesto: Five Imperatives and Six Staples for Winning the Battle for Attention

There’s never been a more exciting – or a scarier– time to be a B2B marketer.

It’s not about social media, the web, or email. It’s about a completely new mindset, new buyer behaviours and a shiny new set of tools to address it all.

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| September 20th, 2010 | 104 comments

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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| June 9th, 2009 | 24 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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| March 12th, 2009 | 2 comments