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Are you coming to FUNNEL?

FUNNEL is a great idea (well, we did help develop it). It’s a B2B marketing event that covers the entire sales/marketing pipeline.

It happens on 1 November at the…

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| October 5th, 2011 | one comment

Do the British prefer ‘muddling through’ to evidence-based B2B marketing?

I was at a meeting the other day with the CMO of a leading cloud-based software vendor. Why, he asked, was it so difficult to get the lead machine working here in the UK. Three reasons sprang to mind.

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| April 6th, 2011 | 4 comments

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

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

Marketo’s new Definitive Guide gets some Velocity

We’ve been working with Marketo, the biggest cheese in B2B marketing automation, to design and sub-edit their new eBook ‘The Definitive Guide to B2B Social Media’. It’s the latest in the series of Definitive Guides (you can read the first one on Lead Nurturing here).

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| March 8th, 2010 | 3 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

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

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

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 Watton, won a CRM Elite Award given to customer implementations that push new boundaries. The judges recognised ShipServ "for its holistic use of Marketo, Salesforce.com, and social media" -- including viral video, eBooks, Twitter and a LinkedIn group (we're kind of proud of our work on all these).

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| August 25th, 2009 | no 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

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

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

That's right, deck the halls - it's the giving time of year. In our bumper edition Xmas B2B marketing newsletter, you'll find: groovy new white papers, audacious new blog posts, and exciting news about new staff, clients and much, much more. Go grab it NOW!

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| 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. How will you defend your marketing plan? At Velocity, we're deeply into two powerful new weapons that are not only incredibly effective, they're virtually Crunch-Proof™...

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| November 28th, 2008 | 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