Every year, Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs release their latest B2B marketing research. This year the report includes a chart of current B2B content marketing challenges. A few of them surprised me as I thought (or hoped) we had … [Read more...]
Why Sales Shuns B2B Marketing Qualified Leads
I read an interesting exchange on LinkedIn recently. The post asked about how sellers engage with prospects who don’t yet either know they have a problem or understand the problem or how they want to solve it. The sales folks who answered the … [Read more...]
B2B Brand Marketing & Demand Gen: Better Together
I just read a recommendation that B2B organizations should allocate 46% of budget to brand marketing and 54% to demand gen. The reasoning is based on an estimation that at any given time, only 5% to 10% of customers are in-market for a category. … [Read more...]
Stuff B2B Marketing Needs to Break
I’ve been thinking about a few things that B2B marketing needs to break. Break the Personalization Assumption Marketers are all wrapped around the axle on personalization. But, in B2B, it’s not as much about knowing their shoe size as it is … [Read more...]
Content-Driven Conversations: The Future of B2B Engagement
Marketers say one of their biggest challenges is creating content that engages and compels their buyers. The future will not only depend on engagement, but on continuous, content-driven conversations that result in buying decisions in your … [Read more...]
