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Carbon Accountability Comes to B2B Marketing
Carbon Accountability Comes to B2B Marketing

Marketing’s carbon output, long overlooked, is now a board-level concern. With new reporting standards on the horizon, professional services firms must take urgent steps to quantify and cut emissions.

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Marketing StrategyIan Kirk23 July 2025Comment
Optimizing B2B Brand Visibility in AI-Generated Search Results
Optimizing B2B Brand Visibility in AI-Generated Search Results

B2B buyers increasingly rely on AI-powered search to find solutions, with generative answers appearing in nearly half of all queries. Yet most brands remain absent from these critical touchpoints. The currency of visibility has shifted from backlinks to brand mentions, requiring marketers to fundamentally rethink their approach.

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Content MarketingIan Kirk16 July 2025Comment
Measuring and Attributing ROI Across Complex B2B Buyer Journeys
Measuring and Attributing ROI Across Complex B2B Buyer Journeys

Modern B2B buying committees involve up to 10 stakeholders consuming content across multiple channels over extended cycles. This complexity demands new attribution strategies to demonstrate marketing's true contribution to revenue growth.

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Customer ExperienceIan Kirk9 July 2025Comment
The New AI Video Toolkit: Tools Every B2B Marketer Should Be Testing Now
The New AI Video Toolkit: Tools Every B2B Marketer Should Be Testing Now

Innovative AI video tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Midjourney’s Video are has the potential to revolutionise how B2B marketers create dynamic content. Discover how these advancements can reshape digital campaigns and driving engagement.

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Content MarketingIan Kirk2 July 2025Comment
The Hidden Event Marketing Platform Already in Your Tech Stack: Maximising Microsoft Teams
The Hidden Event Marketing Platform Already in Your Tech Stack: Maximising Microsoft Teams

Save on Webinar platforms. Microsoft Teams isn’t just for meetings. With its built-in event formats for Meetings, Webinars, and Town Halls it can become a full-fledged marketing engine.

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Content MarketingIan Kirk25 June 2025Comment
How to Adapt B2B Marketing Strategies for Google's AI-Powered Search Era
How to Adapt B2B Marketing Strategies for Google's AI-Powered Search Era

A year into Google’s AI Overviews, the data is in: fewer clicks, more zero-click searches, and a growing role for AI as content gatekeeper. What does this mean for B2B marketing strategy?

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Content MarketingIan Kirk18 June 2025Comment
Email Deliverability in 2025: New Rules, Higher Standards, and What B2B Marketers Should Do
Email Deliverability in 2025: New Rules, Higher Standards, and What B2B Marketers Should Do

Major email providers have raised the bar for inbox access. Microsoft's May 2025 requirements join similar moves by Google and Yahoo, mandating DMARC authentication and rewarding sender transparency. For B2B marketers, compliance is merely the starting point—the real opportunity lies in building trust through every email sent.

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Email MarketingIan Kirk11 June 2025Comment
Orchestrating B2B Marketing for Customer-Centric Business Impact
Orchestrating B2B Marketing for Customer-Centric Business Impact

To meet escalating demands, B2B marketers must transform their approach, ensuring every activity contributes directly to customer satisfaction and business performance

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Marketing StrategyIan Kirk4 June 2025Comment
AI in B2B Marketing: 2025 Statistics Every CMO Needs to Know
AI in B2B Marketing: 2025 Statistics Every CMO Needs to Know

Generative AI has crossed the mainstream threshold, with 71% of organisations now using it regularly. For marketing leaders, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to implement it strategically. This comprehensive analysis examines the latest data on AI adoption, implementation challenges, and competitive advantages.

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Marketing StrategyIan Kirk28 May 2025AI for B2B MarketingComment
Connecting AI to Business Reality: Why Model Context Protocols (MCPs) Matter for B2B
Connecting AI to Business Reality: Why Model Context Protocols (MCPs) Matter for B2B

MCPs offer businesses a powerful, secure, and efficient means to integrate AI directly into their existing systems, dramatically enhancing productivity and operational coherence.

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Marketing AutomationIan Kirk21 May 2025Comment
What B2B Marketers Should Learn From (and About) Canva
What B2B Marketers Should Learn From (and About) Canva

Understand Canva’s rapid evolution into a comprehensive communication platform crucial for B2B firms aiming to streamline design.

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Marketing AutomationIan Kirk14 May 2025Comment
Promoting Expertise at Scale: A Strategic Guide to LinkedIn Thought Leadership Ads
Promoting Expertise at Scale: A Strategic Guide to LinkedIn Thought Leadership Ads

As professional buying committees grow larger and more complex, visibility with the right stakeholders at the right time becomes critical. Our analysis provides a framework for using LinkedIn's advertising tools to position your firm's expertise where it matters most.

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Social MarketingIan Kirk7 May 2025LinkedIn AdvertisingComment
Client Confidential? How to Showcase Success Without Naming Names
Client Confidential? How to Showcase Success Without Naming Names

Confidentiality agreements need not stifle impactful storytelling. B2B marketers can leverage empathy, process transparency, and transformative insights to demonstrate value while respecting client privacy.

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Ian Kirk30 April 2025Comment
LinkedIn’s Creator Hub: A Board-Level Briefing for B2B Growth
LinkedIn’s Creator Hub: A Board-Level Briefing for B2B Growth

Individual voices consistently outperform corporate accounts on LinkedIn. Here’s how the Creator Hub empowers professionals to build strategic personal brands that drive business outcomes.

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Social MarketingIan Kirk23 April 2025LinkedIn is Constantly EvolvingComment
How to Vibe Code Your Way to Novel B2B Customer Experiences
How to Vibe Code Your Way to Novel B2B Customer Experiences

Vibe coding is an emerging trend that’s reshaping how marketers create digital tools. Here’s what it means for professional services firms, why it matters now, and how to use AI tools like Claude to quickly build client-facing prototypes that increase engagement.

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Customer ExperienceIan Kirk16 April 2025Comment
How to Implement Account-Based Marketing for Professional Services on LinkedIn
How to Implement Account-Based Marketing for Professional Services on LinkedIn

Professional services selling has always been relationship-driven, yet many firms persist with broad marketing approaches. This comprehensive framework shows how to implement Account-Based Marketing on LinkedIn to focus resources on creating meaningful connections with decision-makers at specifically identified organisations.

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Account Based MarketingIan Kirk9 April 2025LinkedIn AdvertisingComment
How Synthetic Data Can Deliver Real Benefits to Professional Services Marketing
How Synthetic Data Can Deliver Real Benefits to Professional Services Marketing

Professional services firms face a paradox: data-rich environments but data-poor marketing. Synthetic data—artificially generated stats that mimic the real thing—offers a promising solution. Discover how this approach could help bridge the gap and enable more data-driven B2B marketing strategies.

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Marketing StrategyIan Kirk2 April 2025Comment
How Deep Research AI Can Support Actionable Insights for B2B Marketers
How Deep Research AI Can Support Actionable Insights for B2B Marketers

What if your marketing or consulting team could generate a full client briefing or competitive overview in 30 minutes—fully sourced and well-structured? Deep research AI is quietly becoming the secret weapon of B2B professionals. It’s not just search—it’s research and analysis. And it’s changing how work gets done.

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Marketing StrategyIan Kirk26 March 2025Comment
For B2B Marketers, Being Social is Better Than Doing Social
For B2B Marketers, Being Social is Better Than Doing Social

The latest insights from Patreon's State of Create 2025 report reveals how professional services firms can move beyond volatile social media to build lasting client relationships through connections they actually control.

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Social MarketingIan Kirk19 March 2025Comment
Why B2B Marketers Should Embrace YouTube's Potential for Engaging Content
Why B2B Marketers Should Embrace YouTube's Potential for Engaging Content

YouTube isn’t just a video platform; it’s the world’s second-largest search engine and a major source of business influence. Yet most B2B brands squander its potential with uninspiring content. Here’s how to create videos that actually get watched.

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Content MarketingIan Kirk12 March 2025Comment
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