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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 | 8 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

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

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

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

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

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

Velocity takes New Media Age Awards by storm (but loses)

Velocity at the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards

We were thrilled to have been a Finalist for the Best B2B Campaign in the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards, celebrated the other…

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Doug Kessler | July 1st, 2009 | no 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

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.

We’ve been working with the company and its CMO…

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Stan Woods | 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,…

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Stan Woods | April 22nd, 2009 | 4 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

Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR

Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR.  The central metaphor: the web is a party — work the room instead of stumbling…

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Doug Kessler | December 11th, 2008 | 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

Opt-Out: Digital Marketing’s punch in the stomach

Marketing used to be all about the upside.  You fired off a message; some people responded; others didn’t.   Net gain.

In the digital world, there’s a downside that’s as painful as…

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Doug Kessler | December 8th, 2008 | one comment

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 | 14 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