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
How can marketers get smarter about marketing strategy? The answer is goal setting, and more specifically - SMART goals setting. SMART stands for: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
Metrics,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Messaging,
Account-based marketing,
Planning,
Tactics,
Buyer's journey,
Integrated marketing,
SMART Goals
“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.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
DIY,
Persona,
Brand,
Ideas
Successfully marketing your cybersecurity solution is not a guessing game. Targeted marketing is like any other targeted activity – where you aim is where you’ll hit. Of course, that’s easier said than done. With hundreds of cyber solutions on the market, it’s difficult to find your security product’s unique niche so you can tailor-fit your message to the right buyers.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Persona,
Audience
How to hire an A-team that delivers quantifiable results
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Topics:
Public relations,
Journalist,
Content marketing,
Content,
Marketing,
Metrics,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Audience,
Personas,
PR,
Corporate communications,
SEO
Let’s just cut to the chase: Never put DIY and content marketing in the same sentence.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
DIY,
Social media,
Persona
You can have it all, just not at the same time, or so it seems. Your SEO expert is amazing but your writing team doesn’t have the time to create all the needed content nor create all the content and landing pages. Your social media team has created comprehensive promotional campaigns but is falling behind on curating the objective content necessary to please your target audiences.
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Topics:
Public relations,
Content marketing,
DIY,
Social media,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Customer communications,
Personas,
PR,
SEO
Or How to Get the Most Bang from Your Inbound Marketing Buck
While marketing budgets are growing and more and more companies are leveraging inbound marketing, many CEOs want to know: what returns are we getting out of our investment to prove that inbound marketing is the way to go?
One, inbound has now displaced outbound in terms of clearly measurable ROI; two, the ROI areas prove the effectiveness of inbound marketing; and three, 10 metrics to consider when measuring inbound ROI.
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Topics:
Content marketing,
Content,
Marketing,
Persona,
Inbound marketing,
Customer communications
