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Marketing Strategy
How to Create an Expert B2B Marketing Strategy
From buyer motivation to email marketing tactics, we believe business marketing should focus on understanding and engaging with your audience on a human level.
This in-depth practical guide explains how insight and inspiration can be implemented as a pragmatic B2B marketing strategy.
New research shows B2B purchase decisions are driven less by fear of missing out than by fear of making mistakes. Here's how to help buyers move forward more quickly with confidence.
Finding the right content strategist can transform B2B content marketing from an underperforming tactic into a strategic driver of business growth.
From internal silos to the curse of knowledge, we examine the challenges of B2B communication and offers practical strategies for achieving clarity across every touchpoint.
As traditional social media platforms face growing challenges, the fediverse is emerging as a decentralized alternative poised to reshape B2B marketing strategies.
Employee-generated content is more than just social media posts. A strategic approach to Employee Generated Content (EGC) can turn your team into powerful brand ambassadors. Your employees’ voices can humanise your brand, establish your expertise, expand your reach, and drive measurable sales results.
With trust in short supply, testimonials from satisfied clients can make the difference between a won deal or a lost prospect. Here’s how to use them strategically in your B2B marketing.
Unlock the power of behavioural psychology to accelerate your B2B sales. Here’s how you can leverage behavioural science to understand your prospects better, influencing and encouraging them to buy from you.
Short-term gains can come at a cost to long-term growth. Learn how to optimize your B2B digital ad spend for a more balanced and strategic approach.
The success of your B2B marketing depends on how well you understand your customers. Advanced analytics approaches, including prescriptive and predictive analytics, can grant deeper insights for better decision-making.
Take a systematic approach to competitive content analysis that can give your B2B brand a decisive edge in thought leadership and audience engagement.
Google Marketing Live 2024 brought a wave of changes that will transform the B2B advertising landscape. We explain how to leverage these updates to drive results and stay ahead of the competition.
Content Marketing
The Ultimate Content Marketing Guide for B2B Professionals
In this definitive guide to B2B content marketing, learn how content creation strategy and marketing automation will differentiate you from the competition and provide an amazing customer experience.
From personalization to predictive analytics, generative AI offers unprecedented opportunities for B2B marketing. Here's what business leaders need to know.
Ever wonder why some B2B content spreads like wildfire while other pieces fall flat? The secret lies in understanding the mind of your audience and why people share. We look at the psychological drivers behind sharing and provide actionable strategies to engineer your content for virality.
Is your professional services firm struggling to retain new hires? The solution might be hiding in your marketing department. Discover how applying content strategy principles to your onboarding process can transform new employees into long-term assets.
Your employees are your greatest asset. Investing in their knowledge and engagement through strategic content can boost your B2B firm's performance.
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping B2B content strategies, enabling marketers to repurpose content intelligently and meet the evolving demands of professional services.
Establishing authentic author expertise is crucial for B2B content marketing success in the eyes of search engines and discerning buyers. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of EEAT and offers practical recommendations for leveraging it effectively.
This mid-year review discusses the end of third-party cookies, the growth of AI, and the changes affecting content strategy. It identifies the key challenges and opportunities for marketers aiming to turn disruptions into opportunities
Large language models are revolutionising content creation. This guide demystifies prompt engineering, providing actionable best practices for B2B marketers
It may not be a household name yet, but Perplexity.AI has been quietly gaining a fanbase among marketers, researchers, and content creators. It’s serving a gap that traditional search engines have so far failed to fill.
B2B marketers must shift their focus from internal agendas to external realities. Embracing an Outside → In approach is the key to staying competitive and relevant.
In a world where attention spans are dwindling, learn how snackable video content can help B2B brands stand out, connect with their audience, and achieve their marketing goals
Seeking clarity on how to attribute success to your B2B marketing efforts? Discover how UTM parameters can provide the insights you need to optimize your campaigns and drive better results.
Marketing Automation
All You Need To Know About B2B Marketing Automation
A comprehensive guide to B2B marketing automation. Learn how to create an excellent customer experience in a multi-channel marketing universe from this strategic and thorough overview.
The holidays are fast approaching, and your marketing to-do list is longer than Santa's. Find out how AI can be your elf in the workshop, helping you craft last-minute marketing magic.
AI chatbots tend to be overly supportive—a trait that can hinder real analysis. Learn how to push AI beyond mere cheerleading to become a partner in critical thinking. With the right prompting, you can transform AI into a valuable tool for stress-testing ideas and developing robust strategies.
The latest innovation in AI technology is context-aware tools, which enable businesses to design custom environments for their AI partners. This shift from prompt engineering to context design promises to transform how organisations manage and leverage their knowledge.
AI is revolutionizing B2B marketing automation platforms, driving efficiencies, and crafting personalized customer journeys.
From content management to customer data platforms, explore the key elements of a future-ready martech stack and learn how to optimise your technology for success.
Leverage the latest AI advancements in Google Ads to work smarter, not harder on your B2B digital advertising campaigns.
Marketing automation can help professional services firms deliver exceptional client experiences at scale without overstretching resources. Here’s how to strengthen relationships with automated engagement.
Lead qualification helps you discover which prospects are most likely to become paying customers. Content creation and marketing automation solutions, including lead scoring, simplify the qualification process. You’ll move prospects through your sales funnel more quickly and close more deals by developing a qualification strategy.
While the robot revolution isn’t here yet, sophisticated artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is already making an impact in the world of content marketing. Learn what the future of AI-assisted content marketing might look like.
Get better results by targeting ads based on customer journey stage. Target customer-context driven ad campaigns using data about which prospects are using your site, viewing your content, reading your marketing emails and interacting with your social accounts.
Inbound marketing focuses your attention on becoming customers' top choice. Use marketing automation for inbound marketing to attract your ideal customers, provide reasons to engage and enjoy doing business with you.
AI and machine learning have huge advantages over conventional ways of managing paid ads. It may be time for a change in your advertising department. Here's how to convince your team that machine learning is the way to go.
Customer Experience
Building the Best B2B Customer Experience
Customer experience is extremely important in B2B marketing. This in-depth article explains how to develop a customer experience strategy, how it enhances the customer journey, and the kind of team you need in an omnichannel environment.
Essential strategies for professional services firms to extend their brand presence into virtual meeting spaces through Microsoft Teams customization.
Future-focused B2B organizations are integrating new technologies and strategic insights to improve customer experiences. This shift underscores the value of personalization, transparency, and operational efficiency.
B2B communities offer direct feedback loops, enhance customer support, and foster brand loyalty—yet many initiatives fail. Here’s how to create an environment that nurtures collaboration, builds trust, and makes your community an essential part of your customers' professional lives.
As professional services firms face mounting pressure to demonstrate lasting value, forward-thinking providers are abandoning the expert-dependency model in favor of genuine partnership. This transformation is reshaping client relationships and redefining success metrics across the industry.
Major technology firms are deploying autonomous AI agents into enterprise workflows. Their early success signals a fundamental shift in how professional services firms will serve clients and scale their businesses.
As B2B relationships grow more complex, leading firms are moving beyond traditional account-based marketing to orchestrate comprehensive client experiences that drive measurable growth.
New research reveals that 'playing safe' with B2B advertising may undermine brand performance, highlighting the need for creativity to engage decision-makers.
With trust in short supply, testimonials from satisfied clients can make the difference between a won deal or a lost prospect. Here’s how to use them strategically in your B2B marketing.
You can't fake authenticity. But, for B2B marketers, some strategies communicate authenticity more than others.
A marketing strategy that inspires buyer confidence can enhance your B2B customer experience and strengthen your business performance.
Connected TV advertising offers a unique opportunity for B2B marketers to reach decision-makers with targeted, engaging content. Learn how to incorporate CTV into your marketing mix and drive measurable results.
Revitalize your B2B social media marketing with our insights on creating visually compelling content that engages, connects, and converts.
Account-Based Marketing
Improve Customer Experience with Account Based Marketing
Account Based Marketing, or ABM, can enrich your customer experience and encourage prospects along the customer journey more efficiently.
Account-based marketing is about driving authentic customer engagement, nurturing trust, realising value, and building relationships.
Building online credibility and thought leadership is crucial for driving business growth. One often forgotten or overlooked tool that can help firms achieve these goals is HARO (Help A Reporter Out). As a platform connecting journalists with expert sources, HARO offers B2B marketers a unique opportunity to gain targeted media exposure, earn high-quality backlinks, and showcase their industry expertise.
Account-based marketing enables companies to focus their resources and efforts on a select group of target accounts, tailoring personalised marketing campaigns to engage and convert high-value prospects more effectively. Our research round-up gives you the stats you need to argue for greater investment in this impactful strategy.
Company research based on account intelligence will ensure your B2B account-based marketing strategy succeeds. Discover how to get all the benefits of ABM and improve efficiency within your marketing, sales, and customer success teams.
Professional services firms recognise that account-based marketing is key to growth. But day-to-day client servicing can sometimes get in the way. Here are six tactics to refocus on B2B relationships and create long-term marketing success.
In the B2B world (particularly for professional services firms) growth is critical to success. But growth is not just about lead generation; it is also about client growing client relationships.
If you’re looking to maximise your digital B2B marketing, or are active on LinkedIn but struggling to make the most of this space, here’s what you need to know about succeeding with account-based marketing ABM on LinkedIn.
Email Marketing
Invest in a Strong B2B Email Marketing Strategy
B2B email marketing is a vital and versatile communication channel for engaging with business buyers.
This in-depth article explains why email marketing has to be a key pillar of your B2B marketing strategy.
Understand the significance of Gmail and Yahoo's updated sender requirements for B2B email marketing, and equip your organization with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate these changes effectively.
Marketing automation can help professional services firms deliver exceptional client experiences at scale without overstretching resources. Here’s how to strengthen relationships with automated engagement.
AI-powered tools can help email marketers personalize content at scale while maintaining quality control and human involvement
Might it be time to look beyond Christmas as the inspiration for your holiday campaigns? Learn about effective New Year’s messaging strategies that can help your emails break through the holiday chatter.
LinkedIn InMail is for one-to-one communication and in-depth dialogue for sales prospecting, acquisition and retention InMail provides many of the benefits of email marketing and allows B2B brands to directly reach people outside their LinkedIn network to start a conversation.
Learn some do’s and don’ts to improve your B2B holiday email campaigns. Get examples of B2B companies that have created successful holiday emails and check out some tips to help you create the best B2B holiday email campaign.
Get the best ROI from your customer data. Learn how data quality can make or break your efforts segment and personalise email marketing campaigns. Find out why quality data is an important part of your lead nurturing strategy and what errors you should look for in your customer database.
Email marketing has transformed so much that some have claimed that some techniques, like the email blast, are completely dead in the water. If you compared a mass email from today to one from a decade ago, they would be remarkably different. Mass emailing isn't dead. However, the one size fits all approach is.
What would change in your B2B Newsletter approach if your measure of success wasn't open rates and click-through rates, but producing email content that’s so good that people would be willing to pay for it? Here’s what any marketer can learn from Substack.
Marketing automation technology has raised the bar for email B2B marketing. Your audience has already experienced sophisticated campaigns that are anything but boring. They expect visually beautiful, targeted and personalised emails that build business relationships.
Good design plays a vital role in making connections, generating trust and keeping subscribers engaged with your email campaigns. In addition to providing good content, you also need to keep up with visual trends.
Email plays a vital role in B2B marketing and customer relations. Email marketing strategies must evolve to stay relevant. Here's how design, personalisation, data ethics and management, automation and performance optimisation is shaping the future of email marketing.
Social Marketing
Make Social Media Work for B2B Marketing
For B2B marketers, a well-researched and carefully implemented social media marketing strategy can serve as a powerful force to increase brand awareness and achieve business goals.
Discover how to make social media work for your B2B marketing.
As traditional social media platforms face growing challenges, the fediverse is emerging as a decentralized alternative poised to reshape B2B marketing strategies.
Employee-generated content is more than just social media posts. A strategic approach to Employee Generated Content (EGC) can turn your team into powerful brand ambassadors. Your employees’ voices can humanise your brand, establish your expertise, expand your reach, and drive measurable sales results.
Is it time to break up with Twitter? As Elon Musk's X continues to court controversy, many B2B marketers are eyeing the exit. But where to next? This comprehensive guide explores the three leading Twitter alternatives - Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
LinkedIn's latest updates offer exciting opportunities for B2B marketers to enhance their brand's visibility, build stronger relationships, and achieve their marketing goals.
In a world where attention spans are dwindling, learn how snackable video content can help B2B brands stand out, connect with their audience, and achieve their marketing goals
LinkedIn's new Website Actions can give your LinkedIn marketing a data-driven boost by simplifying analytics and audience segmentation.
Many B2B brands assume Meta ads are only for consumers. But with nearly 4 billion active users, updated targeting capabilities, and AI innovations coming soon, is it time to rethink Meta's possibilities?
Micro-influencers are gaining traction in B2B marketing. Explore how niche experts lend credibility and deliver ROI through strategic partnerships.
As some social media platforms becomes 'burning platforms,' how should B2B marketers adapt? Discover strategies that help you remain agile in uncertain times.
LinkedIn's latest 2023 algorithm updates impact content distribution and how to optimize your strategy. Focus on niche content, authentic connections, and high-quality expertise.
Professional services marketing demands sector-specific strategies. Here’s how AI, analytics, and partnerships drive growth in legal, healthcare, and technology industries.