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You can have it done right, cheap, or quick. Pick two

Fortunately, it’s very rare that we ever get a client who doesn’t understand that you can’t have all three at once. Yet it’s still something that a lot of agencies…

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Lucy Longhurst | February 1st, 2010 | no 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

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

All CIOs (or CEOs) are not the same

We’re often asked s for creative ideas that target ‘the C-suite’ - CEO, COO, CFO, CIO and so on. It’s natural because these guys are usually the ones to sign…

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Stan Woods | August 13th, 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

Simple Steps To A User Focused Site

We never tire of building websites.  The sheer pace of technology change means we constantly push the barriers back.  No two projects are ever the same.

But the excitement is tempered…

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Neil Stoneman | April 20th, 2009 | no comments

Postcreditcrunchism: marketing is the measure of all things

Every recession is a reckoning.  Seemingly untouchable business empires crumble and disappear practically overnight.  New ones, perhaps Richmond based, rise out the rubble.

This recession is no different.  The financial industry’s…

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Neil Stoneman | March 16th, 2009 | no comments

Atomizing your content: your B2B social life

Web marketing used to be all about driving traffic to your website.  Now, it’s also about driving your content out into the wider web to see who trips over it,…

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Doug Kessler | March 10th, 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,…

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Doug Kessler | March 8th, 2009 | no comments

Digital PR: Shut up and listen

A good interview on ScobleizerTV with Joshua Reynolds who oversees Hill and Knowlton’s global technology practice.  Traditional PR firms get a lot of stick lately about being slow to pick…

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Doug Kessler | January 19th, 2009 | no comments

Papa’s got a brand new bag, maaan.

I’ve been a member of emusic, a great music download service, for a few years now (I had an argument with iTunes and vowed never to use them again, but…

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Stan Woods | December 18th, 2008 | 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

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

Good Reasons to do Social Networking in a B2B Environment

Social networks are extremely interesting things.  They give an online home to folks with common interests and hobbies - like staying in touch with one another or following Metallica.

They’ve actually…

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Roger Warner | October 8th, 2008 | 6 comments

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…

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Roger Warner | May 1st, 2008 | 3 comments

Whose Tipping Point is it Anyway? A B2B Perspective…

There’s a great piece in this month’s Fast Company that asks if Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling notion of a ‘Tipping Point’ is fundamentally flawed (see: Is the Tipping Point Toast?)

The conclusion…

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Roger Warner | February 1st, 2008 | 2 comments

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.…

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Roger Warner | January 4th, 2008 | 3 comments

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…

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Roger Warner | November 24th, 2007 | 9 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