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Never mind the Barack, it’s mobiThinking

Birth of a thought leadership website dotMobi is a mobile Internet services company and the registry for the .mobi domain name. It’s backed by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Internet players, including Microsoft and Google. Essentially, .mobi is the only domain name that tells users, ‘This site will work on your phone’.

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| February 2nd, 2010 | no 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 resource for mobile marketers.

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| March 26th, 2009 | no comments

The Disruptive Idea: that’s what it’s all about

Disruptive ideas are not the only way to build a successful business. Sometimes just doing lots of little things better than the other guys is enough. But a disruptive idea is probably the single most powerful weapon in the marketing arsenal. And most marketers spend far too little time generating them.

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| March 24th, 2009 | 4 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 any upside: the dreaded Opt-Out. Here are some ideas for dealing with it...

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| December 8th, 2008 | one comment

Evel Knievel, corporate positioning & corporate message development

Engineers take the leap from tech features to Big Business Benefits like Evel Knievel approached the Snake River Canyon: they fall down. Our Hierarchy of Benefits gives you a better way to do corporate positioning and corporate message development. It provides a practical solution: the Bridge (or, for the Tarzan in all of us: the Vine).

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| November 25th, 2008 | no comments

Your new content may not be as relevant as your old

All the best B2B tech marketers are mini-publishing houses -- they never stop cranking out thought-provoking content on the issues their target market cares most about. But even the best thought leaders often follow a simplistic content promotion strategy that completely ignores the idea of a sales cycle. Basically, they pump out some new content, promote it, and repeat. What they're doing is burying the best under the newest...

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| November 18th, 2008 | no comments

A really good newsletter

We know we 'big up' Pär Almqvist, the Marketing Dude at VNL, quite a bit. But we thought you'd like to see what we consider a really, really good eNewsletter that Pär briefed in and designed (we wrote it for him).

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| November 13th, 2008 | no comments

Microsoft’s baffling “I’m a PC” campaign

Apple got a lot of attention with its "PC vs Mac" commericals. They were simple, funny, well-scripted and seemed to capture the essence of what Mac people love about their Macs. Clearly, they got under Microsoft's skin, because the crack Seattle Rapid Response team has leapt into action (what, three years later?) with an expensive riposte: the "I'm a PC" campaign. The result is wrong in so many ways, I can't summarise them all in a blog post.

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| November 10th, 2008 | 11 comments

Marketers everywhere – get a little mobiThinking

...check out mobiThinking.com, which was launched today to help the world's marketing community to better understand the opportunities and challenges presented by mobile marketing. (Note: it's web marketing Jim, but not as you know it.)

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| June 16th, 2008 | no comments

Mobile Marketing Madness: What We Learned this Week

We've been beavering away over the past few weeks on an important new campaign for one of our shiny new clients in the mobile internet space. It's a fascinating area - full of over-hype and under-delivery a few years ago; now ripe and ready for prime time...

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| June 6th, 2008 | one comment

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