The battle between the differences of B2B and B2C marketing has long raged. For years opinions have been strong on the merits and differences between the two. The battle is over.
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The battle between the differences of B2B and B2C marketing has long raged. For years opinions have been strong on the merits and differences between the two. The battle is over.
The bell rings; high fives go around the sales department like donuts after a Weight Watchers’ meeting. A sale! Of course it was all the hard work and determination of the sales team right? Marketing didn’t play a part – or did it?
The birth of Social media meant death to ‘one-way-traffic’ between brand and buyer. Discover how social is driving real-time engagement.
Death of a salesman - Content marketing is on its own journey and we take a look at how it is redefining the realtionship between sales and marketing and the evolutionary factors that have caused it.
An infogrpahic that takes a look at what B2B marketeers are up against when it comes to getting their story accross.
The only true way of maximising the cumulative impact from today’s B2B marketing smorgasbord is through the alignment of customer, business and brand
.It appears that there are some in the marketing industry intent on making it more complicated and complex. But who does this serve? Your brand, your customers or their own business?
Inbound marketing – there is no inbound without outbound. There is no engagement or lead generation without great content that explores what’s keeping your customers up at night. Get the strategy right from the start.
If you want to capture your customer attention online you have to treat them as individuals, not as a statistic or fragment of binary code.
The measuring of marketing effectiveness and ROI is one of the top priorities for B2B marketers. But what do are you measuring?
In the complex world in which we live, peers can influence the behaviour of others more quickly and more dramatically than ever before – for good and for bad.
A senior Marketing Director of a global business revealed one of the most refreshing attitudes to B2B marketing we have heard in a while.
Has the massive growth of online channels become an excuse for brands not to maintain good audience data of their own?
Successful B2B marketing communications have evolved from a brand monologue to customer dialogue, but what does this mean in reality?
As mainstream social channels begin to strain under the volumes and quality of content being shared, audiences will shy away, but they still have an appetite for social perspective.
The term digital marketing has become meaningless and in some instances a clear case of “the emperor’s new clothes” While most of the channels and media we now employ are digital they won’t paper over the cracks if you have the fundamentals of marketing wrong.
It's clear that the future of social marketing, and marketing in general is transforming into a dialogue between the buyers and the sellers.
Amplify your brand’s story with perosnalised cross-channel micro-messaging.
Our knowledge of audiences’ needs and wants is becoming more sophisticated and is coming from richer sources that enable us to obtain a meaningful insight from The Power of We.
With increasing amounts of invasive content and media in mainstream social media, at what point do we reach such saturation that we tune out?
We ive in a multi-media multi-channel world where we have more information than time to consume it. So your brand’s value to its audience needs to be clear.
Let's get one thing clear. None of the channels or media telling you that it's the marketing equivalent of the silver bullet actually is - fact. But which ones do you use?
Certain forms of media could, in future, be perceived as being too invasive, with brands using them causing themselves more harm than good.
Faced with the growing number of digital media where brand owners have little or no control over the conversations... how do marketers keep their brand messages ‘on message’?
A variety of surveys have indicated that whilst online sales gives you a shop window to the world, actual purchasers are far more likely to come from closer to home.