b2b content marketing / 6 posts found
Fast-Forward: 4 Business Problems Solved by B2B Content Marketing
For B2B business, the pandemic was a magnifying glass pointing out the cracks in systems. We discovered just how fast digital transformation can be when our livelihoods are on the line. We found that global supply chains aren’t as resilient as we thought. We found that remote work is far more viable an option than we’d been led to believe. None of these realizations were brand new — we were just able to see them clearly for the first time. The same is true of B2B buyer behavior. When we talk about how the pandemic changed B2B sales and marketing, […]
5 Ways to Build B2B Content That Resonates With Your Audience, and Why They Work
B2B marketing has a content problem: there’s more of it all the time… and the people we actually want reading it have started tuning it all out. We can’t exactly stop the content deluge (look, we’re even contributing to it right now!), so instead we’ve got to figure out: Why are decision makers tuning out content? How can we keep them from tuning out ours? Why isn’t B2B content resonating? LinkedIn-Edelman helped answer this first question in their 2021 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study. Their conclusions aren’t really all that surprising. Decision makers can really appreciate good thought leadership content […]
Winning B2B Calls to Action That Get Responses & Convert Browsers into Buyers
Calls to action (CTAs) are often treated as an afterthought in content creation, which is odd since they are arguably the most consequential element. Digital marketers and their campaigns are evaluated through a great many factors, which are growing more deep and nuanced as analytics evolve, but conversions are still the name of the game. It’s the easiest thing to measure and the surest sign that your content made an impact. With this in mind, it’s probably worth taking a step back and rethinking your CTA strategy. If you’re cruising on autopilot and running a generic “Download guide” or “Request […]
To Gate or Not to Gate? Changing Trends in B2B Marketing
Q: How many lead gen marketers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Please fill out the form below and we will email you the punchline. The great gate debate continues to rage throughout the B2B marketing world. What once was a landscape full of sparse landing pages with lead gen forms has become an ocean of content. But still, there’s little consensus about how to get the most value out of what we marketers create. Does ungating content devalue it? Does gating content make it inaccessible to the audience you’re most trying to reach? We all agree that […]
Free The Story: How B2B Marketers Can Use Digital Storytelling To Bring Content Alive In New Ways
How does digital storytelling help B2B marketers bring content to life in powerful new ways? With more B2B buying research and ongoing customer engagement than ever taking place online over the past two years, there have never been as many opportunities to benefit from digital storytelling, yet greater competition has made it vital to create content that truly stands out and engages. Let’s take a look at how well-crafted digital storytelling can propel B2B content to new successes, and how B2B marketers can breathe new life into content in a variety of digital formats. Empathy Transforms Digital Storytelling A shift […]
5 Helpful Ways B2B Marketers Can Achieve Content Approval
The “Wild West” of content marketing stuck around longer than we may have imagined, but COVID-19 well and truly brought it to a close. These days, 82% of marketers use content marketing, over 40% of marketers say content is a very important part of their strategy, and 70% plan to actively continue investing in it in the long term. If content marketing is such big business now, however, why does so much of it still feel distinctly lawless? Nowhere is that more true than when it comes to actually getting either client or internal approval for your content. You go […]