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
Content is king, and someone must create it.
Topics: Public relations, News value, Content marketing, Blog, Israel, Content, Marketing
Marketing and selling to B2B customers used to be a lot easier, straightforward, and predictable. As marketers and salespeople, you were in charge.
Topics: Marketing, Sales, Client relations, B2B, Marketing strategy, Tactics, Buyer's journey, Sales funnel
Today’s B2B buyers and their buyer’s journeys have changed, and that’s why integrated marketing matters.
Topics: Marketing, Brand, Customer communications, Account-based marketing, Influencer, B2B, Customer journey, Integrated marketing, Influencer marketing
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Topics: Marketing, Persona, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Sales, Planning, Marketing strategy, Tactics
In the “change is the only constant” department, we’re seeing B2B marketing evolve in approach, philosophy, and focus - with new opportunities and technologies promising to impact businesses for the long-run. Some of these come from the increasing sway of B2C marketing, others from emerging technology, like ChatGPT, etc., and still others that have continued to be normalized after the pandemic. Whatever their provenance, these will keep B2B marketers on their feet so they can stay ahead of the competition.
Topics: Content, Marketing, Brand, Customer communications, B2B, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Sales funnel, Trends, Customer journey
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.
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.
Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM
Build up ABM success by bringing down the silos
Account-based marketing (ABM), which replaces broad marketing campaigns with laser-focused efforts on key accounts, cannot happen when there’s daylight between sales and marketing.
ABM’s mission to identify and target specific prospects requires coordinating resources. This means replacing traditional sales and marketing silos with sales and marketing alignment and partnership: a task that’s easier said than done.
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.
Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM