Topic results for "Blogging"
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…
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…
B2B Bloggers and Influence: Part I
Nothing - not even a finger buffet served on two separate tables - splits a room of B2B communication professionals down the middle like the issue of bloggers and influence.
We…
Cross-fertilisation in social media:
tweet my post and I’ll post your tweet
Social media is a whirling tornado of content and comment. Throw a new white paper into it and, if you’re lucky, it gets tossed around in the vortex, throwing bits…
Zappos’ culture: paying employees to leave is great marketing
Saw a fantastic video online today that I thought I’d share.
It’s a presentation by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, the US online retailer famous for shoes. He talks about…
Customer Value Propositions in B2B Markets
Andrew Findlater from Reed Business Information recently turned us on to an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review (back in 2006 but still daisy-fresh):
Its called Customer Value Propositions in…
The Velocity B2B Social Media & Web Engagement Mind Map
We’ve been working on a number of ‘web engagement’ programs lately, where we’ve been helping clients to increase their web ‘footprint’ in order to improve their general SEO and awareness…
B2B lead generation with thought leadership content: ditch the web-to-lead forms and win
Here’s an experment for you to try.
Open your web stats app and check out which pieces of content are your top performers over the past month. (By top performers, I…
Your First (Free) Baby Steps in B2B Web Marketing
OK, Listen Up
Your web site is not your field of dreams. Build it and most likely they will not come.
Nope, once it’s built your goal is to make it work as…
B2B web marketing trends for 2008
Here’s our first broad brush, crystal ball prediction of the year: 2008 is the year of web engagement for B2B technology firms.
You built v2 or v3 of your site last year.…
Why Blog in B2B? The Final Word…
Whilst blogs are no longer the sexiest subject on the block, the ‘why blog?’ question still rages in B2B - and nowhere more so than here at Velocity.
Like many of…
How many agencies does it take to change a light bulb?
The answer of course is 57. There’s the SEO guys, the branding guys, the PR guys, the viral guys, the advertising guys, and so on…
The fact that there are simply…
x5 reasons to blog
That’s right, FIVE reasons your company should blog. Count ‘em:
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Improved SEO - a steady flow of dynamic content published on a weekly basis to your web site. Search engine spiders…
Reasons a business should blog a lot…
I’ve just read an interesting piece in this month’s Wired magazine on the subject of blogging.
I’ve written elsewhere about the various benefits of blogs as early product conversations, focus groups…
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…
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…
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…
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…
