Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Content truly focused on what your buyers and customers need to know becomes integrated with your products—just represented by media that you create and publish. For a litmus … [Read more...]
Never Assume B2B Buyers Know How to Buy
One of the assumptions that marketers and sales reps make when people show interest in your website, content, or booth at a virtual summit or trade show is that they’re buyers. There’s nothing inherently wrong in this with the exception that the … [Read more...]
Put B2B Content in Context Across the Customer Lifecycle
Content marketing has been an ongoing practice for B2B marketers for more than a decade. Marketers are spending a boatload of money, time and effort producing and distributing content to their audiences. But for many buyers, the B2B content they … [Read more...]
Is Your B2B Content Too BIG?
When I talk with clients about how to build a storyline across the entirety of the buying process, they often express hesitation… What will we write about that will be interesting over 6-month span (or longer)? How will we prove value when … [Read more...]
Use B2B Buyer Persona Types for Ease and Effectiveness
In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. It’s also because buying committees … [Read more...]