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.
Topics: Market research, Customer communications, Message, Messaging, B2B, Marketing strategy
The rise of AI for content marketing has made it much more difficult to stand out.
Your platforms generate a wealth of data that can be leveraged to create powerful PR and social media campaigns. Data-driven content builds trust and engages your audience. The data not only helps to tell your company’s story but also provides valuable insights that resonate with your audience.
Data-driven content has a distinct advantage: it is grounded in facts and provides value to your audience, and the AI engines prefer it to hyperbole.
Topics: Public relations, Social media, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Marketing strategy, Sales enablement content
The best version of collaborative marketing drives success for everyone involved: sharing channels to present complementary solutions strengthens both brands while increasing leads.
1) Select the type of B2B partnership you need
Topics: Content marketing, Content, Customer communications, Corporate communications, Account-based marketing, Collaborative marketing, SMART Goals
Collaborative marketing can be productive and profitable in your B2B marketing arsenal – if…
To gain the benefits of positive brand association, new marketing and product ideas, expanded market reach, increased social media following, and more, you need the right partner. You need a B2B vendor whose brand message and solution offerings are compatible with yours, with whom you can have a smooth and productive relationship, and whose impeccable brand reputation will reflect positively on yours.
Topics: Content marketing, Sales, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Marketing strategy, Collaborative marketing
“Writer’s block happens to all writers, including content marketing writers.
With 91% of companies today using content marketing to attract leads and engage customers, as content marketers you can’t afford to run out of ideas. True, ideas are literally all around us, but finding that truly exceptional concept that results in more traffic, more leads and conversions, and greater consumer love and loyalty for your brand can be quite challenging – challenging, but not impossible. If you want to come up with fresh, relevant topics all the time, but feel that your well of content ideas has dried up, read on.
(Besides using these as prompts to yourself, you can ask AI to check your content to ensure it addresses all these concerns.)
Topics: Content marketing, Content, DIY, Persona, Brand, Ideas
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 tennis player as well as a devoted dad of three.
Topics: Marketing, Message, Messaging, B2B, Customer journey, Integrated marketing
Build your brand - By effectively using an orchestrated outreach strategy, such as PESO® (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.
Topics: Journalist, Press coverage, Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Metrics, Social media, Brand, Audience, Corporate communications, Client relations, PESO, Earned media, Shared media, Owned media
Let’s just cut to the chase: Never put DIY and content marketing in the same sentence.
Topics: Content marketing, Content, DIY, Social media, Persona
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 ideal customer profiles (ICPs)/personas, the better. Messaging must make it immediately apparent who benefits from your product and how.
Topics: Persona, Customer communications, Message, Messaging, B2B
Content is king, and someone must create it.
Topics: Public relations, News value, Content marketing, Blog, Israel, Content, Marketing