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EPiServer uses market momentum to go public

We just learned that our client EPiserver is preparing to go public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

The company offers the best Microsoft .Net CMS on the planet (running nearly 10,000…

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Stan Woods | January 27th, 2010 | no comments

2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions

ClickPredictions 2010
View more documents from Ambal Balakrishnan.

There she is. The 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions eBook from ClickPredictions — a crowdsourced effort by “39 of the world’s…

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Doug Kessler | January 22nd, 2010 | no comments

B2B marketing predictions for 2010

We were recently asked where we thought B2B marketing would go in 2010.  Made us think. So here are some predictions for the next year:

THE KIND-OF-OBVIOUS PREDICTIONS:

Content Marketing will…

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Doug Kessler | November 6th, 2009 | 6 comments

Lethal Generosity: a key principle of social media marketing?

According to the Harvard Business Review, 90% of tweets are generated by just 10% of Twitter users. Apparently this is a higher concentration than for Wikipedia and much, much higher…

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Stan Woods | November 5th, 2009 | 3 comments

You can’t have a conversation when you use a megaphone

Selling to B2B customers has been changed forever by the Internet. A truism maybe, but it’s surprising how many B2B marketing organisations are still structured  as they were in the…

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Stan Woods | October 29th, 2009 | 5 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

Chalkbot sprays the Tour

It’s not B2B but we just had to share this one.  The Nike-sponsored Livestrong Chalkbot is driving the Tour de France about 8 hours in front of the riders, spraying…

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Doug Kessler | July 14th, 2009 | no comments

The Content Marketing Workbook

It’s here. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook.  Over 45 breezy pages of good, solid advice about thought leadership and content marketing…

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Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments

Watch the Velocity web seminar on Content Marketing

Stan just presented our web seminar with B2B Marketing magazine, called “Content Marketing: Thought Leadership in a Web 2.0 World”.  Seemed to go really well.

Over 130 people attended and the…

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Doug Kessler | June 3rd, 2009 | no comments

New media frenzy: the medium is just the medium

It’s an exciting time to be in the communications business.  It’s not just that there are so many new ways to reach people.  It’s also that we get to watch…

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Doug Kessler | April 6th, 2009 | one comment

Twitter in B2B – a Velocity Slideshare

In the last few months, Twitter has shot from being a cult web app to a full-blown global fad.  Celebrities are doing it (Stephen Fry has 361,225 followers as of…

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Doug Kessler | March 30th, 2009 | no comments

Cross-fertilisation in social media:
tweet my post and I’ll post your tweet

Social media is a whirling tornado of content and comment.  Throw a new white paper into it and, if you’re lucky, it gets tossed around in the vortex, throwing bits…

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Doug Kessler | March 12th, 2009 | 3 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

Going social in B2B: seven automatic actions for every piece of content

Time was, you generated a piece of thought leadership content, stuck it on your website and eNewsletter, then sat back counting the hits.  Today, whenever we produce a new piece…

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Doug Kessler | February 18th, 2009 | 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

New Velocity B2B Marketing Newsletter Available!

The latest edition of our semi-regular newsletter update is now available. It’s packed with goodness inside, including our star new white pager, Marketing, Meet Sales, which offers eleven ways to…

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Roger Warner | May 23rd, 2008 | no 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

Pico-Branding: New Rules for Marketing


UPDATE
: this post has been kindly featured on BtoB Magazine’s ‘Blogs of the Week’. (Thanks guys!)

I’ve been mulling on this one for a while: how does Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, blogging,…

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Roger Warner | January 15th, 2008 | 5 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

Why Blog in B2B? The Final Word…

Whilst blogs are no longer the sexiest subject on the block, the ‘why blog?’ question still rages in B2B - and nowhere more so than here at Velocity.

Like many of…

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Roger Warner | December 23rd, 2007 | 2 comments

LinkedIn: Facebook for ugly people?

Recently we’ve been talking a lot at Velocity about the importance of social media to our client heartland, B2B tech. In tandem, as we build our new company, I’ve been…

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Stan Woods | December 19th, 2007 | no comments

Sites we like: Flickr Tag Browser

Normally the idea of an unconventional navigation scheme makes my skin crawl, but this is outstanding because it’s so slick and central to the tool…

Check it out:  the Flickr Tag…

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Roger Warner | December 12th, 2007 | 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.

Co-incidently, it’s also time…

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Roger Warner | 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.

Organised by the good folk at Snipperoo…

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Roger Warner | December 6th, 2007 | 3 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 | 13 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 | no 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