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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…

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Doug Kessler | February 8th, 2010 | 5 comments

EPiServer uses market momentum to go public

We just learned that our client EPiserver is preparing to go public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

The company offers the best Microsoft .Net CMS on the planet (running nearly 10,000…

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Stan Woods | January 27th, 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

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

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

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

How you market is almost as important as what you market

We spend a lot of time looking for ways to differentiate our clients based on what they do. Sometimes - surprisingly often - it’s really hard to do because the…

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Stan Woods | October 26th, 2009 | no 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

Why ShipServ won a 2009 CRM Market Award

Once again, ShipServ has ’scooped’ a marketing award (why are awards always scooped?) — this time the 2009 CRM Market Awards run by CRM Magazine.  ShipServ, piloted by CMO John…

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Doug Kessler | August 25th, 2009 | no 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…

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Stan Woods | August 13th, 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

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

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

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,…

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Doug Kessler | March 8th, 2009 | no comments

‘Inspired by Kittens’ - Five branding lessons from social media

I always keep an eye on what my friend Laurence Green’s company Fallon is doing (disclosure: our elder daughters have known each other since they were about three weeks old…

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Stan Woods | March 5th, 2009 | 4 comments

Microsoft gets it right

We’ve given Microsoft some bad reviews here — especially for the “I’m a PC” ad campaign, so it feels only fair to give them some credit when they get it…

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Doug Kessler | February 24th, 2009 | no comments

17 Strategies to Killer Ads

I stumbled across a great blog today that attempted to categorise advertising strategies. Based on an analysis of  The Advertising Concept Book by Pete Barry, it’s a really useful list…

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Stan Woods | February 13th, 2009 | no 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

Digital PR: Shut up and listen

A good interview on ScobleizerTV with Joshua Reynolds who oversees Hill and Knowlton’s global technology practice.  Traditional PR firms get a lot of stick lately about being slow to pick…

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Doug Kessler | January 19th, 2009 | no 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

Velocity Xmas B2B Technology Marketing Newsletter: the Gift That Keeps on Giving

That’s right, deck the halls - it’s that giving time of year….

In our bumper edition Xmas newsletter, you’ll find:

A super-shiny new White Paper, ‘The Hierarchy of Benefits‘, which identifies one of…

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Roger Warner | December 10th, 2008 | no comments

Survival kit for growth companies

Max Bleyleben’s excellent Technofile Europe blog recently posted this Survival Kit for Growth Companies, suggesting a strategy (or at least a list of tactics) for surviving the crunch.  It ranges…

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Doug Kessler | December 10th, 2008 | no comments

Credit Crunch B2B Marketing: Demand Generation, Lead Nurturing and Online PR

The CEO is stalking the corridors, blood dripping from his Budget Axe — and he’s on his way to the marketing department.  Your department.

How will you defend your marketing plan? “That…

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Doug Kessler | November 28th, 2008 | 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