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Project Open Kimono 11: Do Twitter Auto DMs work?

One of the experiments we've run as part of Project Open Kimono was to set up an automated Direct Message to everyone who follows me on Twitter. Check out the results...

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| February 15th, 2011 | no comments

We’re Hiring: Digital Marketing Analyst

Are you ready for the Land of Accountability? If you're a B2B marketer with a thirst for measurement then find out why we might be your next assignment.

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| February 14th, 2011 | no comments

B2B Marketing Analytics – Project Open Kimono Part 3

Two weeks in and the analytics Kimono is wide open. Take a look and see what you can learn from our B2B Marketing Manifesto campaign.

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| October 1st, 2010 | no comments

Bite me, Michael O’Leary

Photo credit: Le Scribbler

I’ve never flown Ryanair before. And now I never will again. If I’d wanted to raise my blood pressure, I could have done that for…

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| July 19th, 2010 | no comments

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 come up against. But perhaps these problems wouldn’t arise if we marketers explained ourselves properly.

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| February 1st, 2010 | no 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

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…

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| 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 the cheques, particularly for significant purchases. But the question implies that these people are pretty much all the same in what they do and how they think and behave. In our experience, this isn't true.

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| 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 case studies and white papers, most of them really aren't doing it at all. Our new webinar explains all...

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| 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 no two sites are the same. But the same old battles are usually just round the corner.

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| April 20th, 2009 | no comments

Postcreditcrunchism: marketing is the measure of all things

The history books will look upon the credit crunch as an agent of dramatic change. Marketing, for one, will never be the same again. It's probably for the best.

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| 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, links to it, re-tweets it, rates it, comments on it, shares it and (of course) follows the backlinks back to your site. This social media is becoming increasingly important in digital marketing. At Velocity, we have content all over the place, including...

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| 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, 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

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 up on digital, but this guy seems pretty switched on.

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| January 19th, 2009 | no comments

Papa’s got a brand new bag, maaan.

A bravo for emusic, one of the best music download sites out there, and some thoughts on building relevant communities in B2B. 'Build it and expect them to come' doesn't work in the wild world of social networking.

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| 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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| 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 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

Good Reasons to do Social Networking in a B2B Environment

How can Social Networking work in a B2B environment? Well, you can start thinking about creating more 'social' content as PR tools that can be used by people for facilitating dialogue, spreading your messages and enabling you to manage relationships in new ways.

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| October 8th, 2008 | 6 comments

Your First (Free) Baby Steps in B2B Web Marketing

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 a sales sweat house – and this takes real effort and a bunch of web marketing smarts...

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| May 1st, 2008 | 4 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 'Tipping Point' is fundamentally flawed. It's compelling stuff, but what's the point of 'tipping' and the pursuit of 'influencers' in a B2B environment..?

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| 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...

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| 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... But what's the future for PR?

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| November 24th, 2007 | 10 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