Don’t worry about the steep drop-off: nearly 60 per cent of the business companies gain through a webinar comes from those who tune in on-demand, according to the latest research from BrightTalk. In its 2019 benchmark report, which is based usage data across the San Francisco-based firm’s platform for hosting webinars and videos, also wove […]
Ryan Bonnici may have grown his team considerably over the past year and a half, but the name of the company he’s working for has gotten a lot shorter. The CMO of G2, (formerly G2 Crowd) took part in a fireside chat in Toronto late last week as part of the Growth Marketing Conference, where […]
As you might expect from a company like 3M, the road to content marketing success is paved with Post-It notes. They fill the various panels of a white board, and each color represents something different. The yellow Post-Its, for example, refer to tactics, while blue ones are stuck next to calls to action or things […]
While difficulties brought on by changes in Google’s algorithms may have led more marketers to focus on social media to connect with customers, research from Clutch shows 87 per cent of B2B audiences cite search engines as their No. 1 way of discovering business content. Washington-based Clutch, which offers reviews and ratings as well as […]
Pressboard is going to help teach more companies how to create the kind of branded content publishers want through a free online education program that will include the Wall Street Journal’s former global content director as a strategic advisor. Since its launch four years ago, Pressboard has worked with a slew of brands to act […]
LookBookHQ on Tuesday launched an application to help B2B marketers get more insight to improve their content marketing efforts called PathFactory Engine, the first word of which will also serve as the firm’s new name as part of a rebranding effort. The company will be showcasing PathFactory Engine and speaking at the Sirius Decisions Summit […]
Most marketers know the chief difference between the purchase process of B2C and B2B models: consumer transactions are typically simpler, streamlined and influenced by emotion, whereas business conversion is gradual, complex, and usually marred in red tape and protocol. UX design agencies are familiar with this disparity too—crafting an ideal user experience for a B2C company’s […]
They’ve produced all kinds of blog posts, infographics and other forms of storytelling for marketers, but now two of Contently’s senior leaders have turned to one of the most venerable mediums of all: a printed book on how to create great narratives for brands. In The Storytelling Edge, Contently Co-founder Shane Snow and Editor-in-Chief Joe […]
Saying that content is king truly makes sense today. But this wasn’t a case just a few years ago when content was literally molested, being created only to be overstuffed with keywords and fulfill blunt SEO needs. It’s the first and last thing that modern marketing is and will be all about. It seems that […]
Is your content really working for your business? Do you spend a lot of time writing blogs and website content to boost sales for your B2B? That’s great. But, if your target market doesn’t see your content, you just waste time and effort. It’s one thing to create good content. It’s another thing to actually use […]
Today’s top B2B brands tend to rely on seven types of marketing content to generate the majority of their leads. These content types include, in order of effectiveness, email marketing, content marketing social media marketing, landing page and website optimization, SEO, paid search, and webinars or virtual events. Before your organization starts putting these […]
A content creation company called nDash is seeking to set itself apart from competitors by encouraging its stable of freelance writers to pitch to an entire industry rather than individual B2B brands on its platform. Based in Boston, nDash works much like Contently, Skyword and other startups in the content marketing space by helping brands […]
Even before I actually played it myself, I could foresee the moment when somebody tries to highjack HQ Trivia’s popularity for marketing purposes. I first became aware of this ridiculously addictive iPhone game in much the same way that I learned about Pokemon Go more than a year ago: a sort of social media osmosis […]
‘A rational framework with no space — at least or less space — for emotions.’ This is a much-believed formula most business-to-business marketers follow without really questioning it. Marketing driven by emotions is considered to be the something that belongs mainly business-to-customer (B2C) marketers, whereas B2B firms rely on logical strategies and appeals to reason. That’s […]
Contently is evolving from a service that connects freelancers and brands to a platform that will make marketers more accountable for the work they do, according to the firm’s CMO. A New York-based startup founded in 2011 just as content marketing was becoming a bigger topic, Contently brought on Kelly Wenzel as its CMO earlier […]
You write B2B content including blogs, social media posts, newsletters, emails, and more each month. You know that it’s important. But… you are not seeing results from all of this work. Why? You may be missing out on some key elements that can take your copywriting from bland to super sales fast! Here’s how… […]
In such a rapidly changing environment like the Internet, B2B companies often struggle to understand the concept of content marketing and implement it properly. For some, it’s still reserved for the consumer market, so they abandon the idea. According to 2016 B2B Content Marketing Trends – North America, marketers are predominantly using it but the […]
Marketers who want to find new sources of creativity need to move past the ideas of crowdsourcing, free culture and socializing online to community-building, fair compensation and collaboration, Joseph Gordon-Levitt told Content Marketing World 2017. The film and TV actor, who also helms the digital production company HitRecord, closed out the event for brands and […]
The content they create may have little in common with the Avengers, Star Wars or Doctor Strange, but a LinkedIn executive told Content Marketing World 2017 that Disney’s approach to hit movies could help B2B firms improve their thought leadership strategy. In a Thursday session at the conference, which is taking place in Cleveland this […]
Make the boss happy or make customers successful: That’s the difficult choice content marketers may have to make if they want a bigger budget, according to Michael Brenner. The principal of the Marketing Insider Group, Brenner addressed an issue that will likely face many of those attending Content Marketing World in Cleveland this week when […]
