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Company blog as B2B skunkworks

How making your business's blog into a testing ground for new ideas can drive innovation, and provide proof of concept for radical changes.

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| May 17th, 2011 | no comments

LinkedIn Maps: your network visualised

We’re big infographics fans so when LinkedIn launched their new LinkedIn Maps tool, we were first in the virtual queue to have a play. The tool generates a colourful,…

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| February 3rd, 2011 | no comments

A nice bit of visual B2B personalisation

LinkedIn just sent me a nice piece of highly personalized B2B email.

I’ve never seen ‘visual persoanlization’ in an out-bound email before but it’s pretty compelling to see the faces…

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| January 17th, 2011 | 2 comments

Are B2B marketers wimps? Project Open Kimono part 6

Our recent micro-survey generated some disturbing data: B2B marketers are wimps. Not a pretty result but maybe it's time to face up to it...

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| October 19th, 2010 | 11 comments

Real women don’t sell

Ultimo, the lingerie maker, has launched a new line of evening dresses. Interesting bit of diversification there – I suppose it makes sense for company that makes bras to also make outer garments. Hopefully the dresses will be designed with the logistics of bra-wearing in mind...

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| July 14th, 2010 | no comments

ShipServ.com Goes Live: a B2B Before and After

We're proud to say that shipserv.com launched successfuly this morning. May all who sail in her find reasonably priced shipping supplies from a broad (and competitive) selection of maritime vendors....

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| April 15th, 2008 | no comments

Your 2008 marketing plan: the B2B Svenn Diagram dilemma

Aside from tinsel and cheap booze offers, it’s that planning time of year again. A special place where you need to create futurama fireworks out of Powerpoint...

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| December 8th, 2007 | one comment

Widgety Goodness: Widgets and Social Media – WTF?!

Today’s ‘Widgety Goodness’ conference in Brighton brought together some in-the-know folks and some much-needed clarity to the hoopla that is social media and widgets...

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| December 6th, 2007 | 3 comments

What’s the freakin’ (Power)point!!??

What's the point of Powerpoint? A crutch to help you through an uncomfortable challenge (public speaking)? A useful visual aid to convey stories? A pain in the butt, killed to death, hackneyed, eyesore, head-f**k for boring people to death?

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| November 26th, 2007 | 2 comments

Mechanical Turks & Zubka

Could there be anything cooler on the web than Mechanical Turks?

People who need stuff done post tasks. Other people do them for micro-payments using Amazon.com accounts.

I’d love to…

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| July 19th, 2007 | no comments

iinovate

iinnovate is an intelligent video blog on entrepreneurship produced by some students at Stanford.

The latest post is an interview with Tim Westergren, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pandora…

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| May 1st, 2007 | no comments

Basecamp shows how it should be done

We’re helping Validis develop a website to sell their hosted application — a powerful app that checks any set of accounts for errors.

In exploring the simplest, friendliest, most compelling…

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| April 5th, 2007 | no comments

Second Life gets its own accounting software

True. Linden Labs has rolled out NetSuite, financial and accounting software to help users manage their Linden dollars and real-world money (an increasingly blurred boundary).

They’ve even got a virtual…

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| April 5th, 2007 | 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