Larry Kenigsberg
Larry’s years of experience as a psychoanalyst and itinerant martial artist shape the philosophy he uses to guide K2 and its clients, especially when it comes to creating targeted, appealing messages. He’s a proud, active father to his three sons and self-described hack guitarist. Larry holds bachelor’s degrees in psychology and social work from Adelphi University and an MSW from New York University, with additional postgraduate training in psychoanalysis and supervision.
Build your brand - By effectively using an orchestrated outreach strategy, such as PESOTM (created by Gini Dietrich), across all channels, marketers will extend the reach and increase the overall effectiveness of their efforts, boosting both brand loyalty and revenue.
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Topics:
Journalist,
Press coverage,
Content marketing,
Content,
Marketing,
Metrics,
Social media,
Brand,
Audience,
Corporate communications,
Client relations,
PESO,
Earned media,
Shared media,
Owned media
Robert, CMO of a cybersecurity business, devotes his energies to making his company’s solution stand out in a very crowded marketplace. He ensures his marketing and sales teams stay on top of the latest available analytics, CRM, social media, and other technologies that’ll help them achieve his goals. While Bob is a super-effective CMO, he’s also a fanatical sportsman - forever trying to fit tennis matches in his already busy schedule - as well as a devoted dad of three.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Message,
Messaging,
B2B,
Customer journey,
Integrated marketing
Hmmm…should this be a blog or rant?
We’re constantly amazed at the number of companies who’ve been around for years and don’t have a cohesive messaging document (MD).
While I understand the aversion – MDs are difficult to execute, with various stakeholders within the company trying to get their voices heard – a well-conceived MD creates a virtual paint-by-numbers scenario, where all of your unique value propositions/unique selling propositions (UVPs/USPs) are well defined for audiences across the purchasing chain, smoothing the account-based marketing process.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Brand,
Customer communications,
Message,
Messaging,
Corporate communications,
Client relations,
Integrated marketing
Understanding the role of market research and up-to-date intelligence
Many companies are overlooking the critical importance of market research and fail to use it to get actionable insights about their customers. With unpredictable markets, up-to-date intelligence from effective research can help B2B marketers stay on top of customers’ evolving needs to clearly understand what they want or don’t want - knowledge that can inspire truly customer-centric messaging.
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Topics:
Market research,
Customer communications,
Message,
Messaging,
B2B,
Marketing strategy
B2B messaging should clearly explain the unique value and selling propositions (UVPs/USPs) and myriad advantages of your solution to everyone participating in purchasing process. Sometimes, that just isn’t achieved.
Fail 1 - The “too-broad” B2B messaging
General marketing blah-blah is not appreciated. Technology products are very rarely designed for general use, and the more specific you message to your personas, the better. Messaging must make it immediately apparent who benefits from your product and how.
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Topics:
Persona,
Customer communications,
Message,
Messaging,
B2B
A pitch-perfect pitch can get top influencers to cover your product
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Topics:
Journalist,
Analyst,
Analyst relations,
Message,
Corporate communications,
Technology
Run Smooth-as-Silk Analyst Briefings
Analysts are undeniably one of today’s top enterprise influencer groups - providing value with their finger on the pulse on the market, understanding of customer needs and pain points, and ability to advise clients which vendor and solutions to consider.
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Topics:
Analyst,
Analyst relations,
Messaging
Taking an account-based marketing (ABM) approach pinpoints your focus on a few high-opportunity, high-value accounts who are more likely to pay attention to your communications because they actually need your product and have the budget for it.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Inbound marketing,
Messaging,
PR,
Account-based marketing,
Sales,
ABM
Amy Kenigsberg, COO & Co-founder, talks about how K2 can up your ABM game
Ask any marketer - account-based marketing, which targets and engages specific accounts with personalized campaigns, is a powerful and profitable strategy.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Inbound marketing,
Messaging,
PR,
Account-based marketing,
Sales,
ABM
At first glance, account-based marketing (ABM) and inbound seem like polar opposites: ABM focuses on decision makers within particular enterprises and engages them with personalized communication. Inbound marketing takes a more expansive approach, attracting customers to products and services by creating valuable content.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Inbound marketing,
Messaging,
PR,
Account-based marketing,
Sales,
ABM