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11 Content Marketing Tips to Build Your B2B Business

11 Content Marketing Tips to Build Your B2B Business | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As the father of an 8-year-old boy, most of my disposable income is tied up in little plastic bricks. In my house, you’ll find thousands of them in bins, several elaborate sets on display, and a distressing number of the (razor-sharp) things underfoot.


I’m not complaining, really. I have as much fun building with them as he does. And as a marketer, having Lego around is a good reminder of the value of content marketing. Great content can drive marketing goals while providing something of real value to its target audience: The Lego Movie was a 90-minute commercial for Lego, but it was also entertaining and heartfelt. I laughed, I cried, I bought $100 worth of tie-in toys… everybody won.


Your B2B offering may not have that Lego coolness factor. The Industrial Turbine Movie is unlikely to score with critics or with audiences. But content can still help you build your business.


If you’re just getting started with content marketing, start with this guide to content marketing strategy. Then use the following tips as an advanced class to make your content even more valuable to your audience. And, most importantly, to connect that audience to your business goals....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Get more mileage out of your B2B content marketing efforts with these 11 tips: Consistently deliver quality content that encourages readers to take action.

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Three Key B2B Buying Scenarios | SiriusDecisions

Three Key B2B Buying Scenarios | SiriusDecisions | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

To help our clients understand their buyers, SiriusDecisions conducts significant and objective primary research. One of the most interesting discoveries revealed via our most recent b-to-b buying study is that there is not one buyer's journey. In fact, there are three common, distinct scenarios of buying behavior that we isolated. It's important to know which buying scenario that an offering or campaign is associated with in order to align go-to-market strategies to how b-to-b buyers buy.

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Three key buying decision scenarios every B2B marketer should know.

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Why the B2B landscape points to a mobile commerce future

Why the B2B landscape points to a mobile commerce future | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

For B2B companies, the growing importance of e-commerce is taking an increasingly central role in business marketers' minds, but building a mobile commerce presence may soon become a priority. 

Last fall, Accenture Interactive released a report, "Channel Shift: Measuring B2B Efforts to Shift Customer Online," that both surveyed and addressed this e-commerce-filled reality. And in short, it found that B2B e-commerce is only going to gain traction....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

B2B and e-commerce trends are worth noting for marketers.

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How Businesses Discover and Purchase Marketing Technologies

How Businesses Discover and Purchase Marketing Technologies | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

How do marketers discover, research, and evaluate marketing technologies?


To find out, in June 2015 Walker Sands Communications surveyed 313 marketers based in the United States. Respondents work for a range of company sizes (29% at businesses with fewer than 50 employees; 17% at enterprises with 5000+ employees) and hold titles at all levels (31% coordinator/specialist, 28% manager, 21% vice-president, 5% CMO, 16% other).Below, key findings from the report.


Discovery

Some 30% of respondents say they learn about marketing technology from peers; 20% discover new technologies via media outlets/blogs.


Forbes is the most popular media outlet for learning about marketing technologies and industry news (44% of respondents read); Wired is next (37% read), followed by the Wall Street Journal (35%).


Most respondents (91%) say they begin researching marketing tech vendors on their desktop or laptop computer; 6% begin on a smartphone, and 3% on a tablet.


Peer recommendations are the most influential sources of information about marketing technology solutions (63% of respondents rate them as very influential), followed by online reviews (44%) and analyst reports (33%)....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Interesting research on how businesses search for marketing technologies.

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