Topic results for "Web Relations"
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Roger Warner, friend of Velocity and all-round PR guru, has flung open the doors to the Museum of Social Media. Before you all start planning an office field trip…
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.Zappos’ culture: paying employees to leave is great marketing
Zappos, the online shoe retailer, takes a distinctive approach to company culture that delivers real marketing and brand benefits. Check out his excellent presentation from O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Summit here...Customer Value Propositions in B2B Markets
Andrew Findlater from Reed Business Information recently turned us on to an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review (back in 2006 but still daisy-fresh): Its called Customer Value Propositions in Business Markets and it makes a compelling case for what the authors call "Resonating Focus"...B2B Web Marketing Tools Around Town
Being a nice chap, I thought I'd share a few of our secret web marketing tools with you. These are the apps and widgets that we use day in, day out to help our clients do wonderful things in SEO, PPC, and web content marketing in general....Quick Start Pimp Your Content Guide to SEO
I've been doing a stack of content optimisation for client web sites lately, so I thought I'd share some of my 'how to' notes with the interweb.... Read on for a super-simple guide to pimping your content to search engines.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 make your marketing activity really drive new sales...The Velocity B2B Social Media & Web Engagement Mind Map
This Mind Map gives you everything you need to do web / social media engagement by yourself. It's easy. Just pin it on your wall and - once you've published a great piece of content to your site - follow the map clockwise and post it to the relevant destinations...B2B lead generation with thought leadership content: ditch the web-to-lead forms and win
For B2B web sites, the content that really matters in terms of positioning and prospecting isn't your 'markitecture' pages - your product and services descriptions, corporate histories and such.... it's your 'thought leadership' pages - the places where you express opinions and ideas rather than features and benefits. Here's why...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...Why ‘Web-to-Lead’ Forms Suck for B2B Lead Generation
I just returned from a great week away in the Lower Hebrides - the small cluster of islands to the west of Glasgow. The single malts were stunning, the weather bracing and the walks heartening. I'm missing it already. None of this, of course, has anything to do with B2B lead generation, but I did have one holiday experience that made me realise how wide of the mark we are when it comes to using ‘web-to-lead-forms.'12 Days Later: SEO Velocity Style – Get Results Quick!
Yes, we're a living lab, practising what we preach and telling you all about it. 12 days ago I blogged about our (re)birth as a presence on Google. Today, we're #2 on our key term 'B2B technology marketing agency' on Google.com (that's right .com!). Here's what happened in the interim...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?Velocity time warp: going way, way back to the early SEO days
Do you remember the time when you didn't exist? Nope, me neither. But today is a big day for us because we kind of experienced re-birth...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…
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.
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…
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…
