Business marketing is changing faster than most companies can keep up. Content appears to be the biggest hurdle, but that’s not surprising. Content has traditionally been an afterthought in the B2B space, but it won’t be for much longer. Today’s B2Bs can no longer rely on how fast they respond to customers, they must also […]
Traditional business-to-business lead generation strategies like cold calling, unsolicited site visits, and email worked a few years ago but will not deliver great results today. Social media, mobile technology and content marketing has changed the B2B landscape forever. Inbound marketing strategies are now generating more demand for business products and services than traditional marketing ever […]
Happy New Year! After eating way too many baked goods over the holidays, we are back heads-down on some exciting new projects to kick off 2013, not to mention trying to work off some of these muffin-tops. Before we get into any new content topics, I wanted to reflect on a few highlights we shared […]
Remember Y2K? Things were much simpler then. In the last 15-20 years we’ve been hit with a few major market shifts due to some amazing innovations in technology and communications. But the mother of all marketing tsunamis hit us in 2008: social media. In four years we have witnessed unprecedented change in a very short […]
For B2B leaders who see the potential upside of social marketing, many still struggle with how and when to craft social content in order to generate demand and nurture relationships. Mainstream social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) were not specifically built for the business-to-business audience so the task can be overwhelming and appear pointless. Indeed, a […]
Since 2008, social media marketing has transformed everything we used to know about creating awareness and generating leads. Gone are the days of “push” marketing. Today it is all about “pull” or “peer-peer” marketing. We see consumer package brands promoted on social sites like Facebook and Pinterest all the time. Sure, it makes sense to […]
