Only 12% of B2B marketers rate themselves as “very effective” at delivering a great customer experience. No, that’s not a typo. It’s a finding from the 2016 B2B Customer Experience Benchmark Report from Kapost. The report defines customer … [Read more...]
No B2B Marketing Content Left Behind
B2B marketers have been struggling with creating engaging content, creating enough content and improving content marketing effectiveness ever since content marketing became the new sliced bread. There are many surveys and reports that tell us so. … [Read more...]
Scale the Story, Not the Volume
B2B marketing has an obsession with quantity. Quantity of leads has been a driving force of marketing for as long as I can remember and now it’s coupled with volume of content. The number of views, likes, and shares are still key metrics. In other … [Read more...]
Why B2B Marketers Must Kill the Campaign
Please take sharp aim and pull the trigger! Shoot it right between the eyes of the inevitable self-serving sales follow-up to schedule a demo that arrives shortly after the campaign ends. If you don’t, every time a campaign that your audience is … [Read more...]
B2B Marketing Performance is in Jeopardy
I sat pondering another in a burst of self-serving emails sent last week by salespeople who obviously lack any discipline in prospect research or the energy needed to attempt meaningful personalization. As one of the emails was from a company I'd … [Read more...]