CMI B2B Content Marketing 2020

CMI B2B survey suggests marketers should look deeper in the funnel at loyalty and audience growth

Less than half of B2B organizations are using their small, often one-person content marketing resource to grow an audience of subscribers and only 52 per cent are using it to drive attendance at the in-person events that tend to drive revenue, according to the most recent research from the Content Marketing Institute. The Cleveland-based organization […]

Content Marketing World 2019 CMworld 2019

Content Marketing World 2019: How to develop a strategy, create better buyer personas and build trust

He hasn’t worked there in years, but among the many companies exhibiting on the show floor at Content Marketing World 2019 is a B2B firm that taught Joe Pulizzi some of his earliest lessons. Before it became part of Informa Engage, the Content Marketing Institute’s founder explained in his opening keynote address Wednesday, he helped lead […]

Walker Sands B2B content

Walker Sands research shows B2B marketers value content that leads to sales over thought leadership

Eighty three per cent of B2B marketers say the production of content is their top priority, and a nearly a third have driving sales and conversions as their primary goal, according to a study from Walker Sands released Thursday. Based on a survey of approximately 300 marketers, the report from Chicago-based agency Walker Sands, titled […]

B2B Content Marketing Research 2019

B2B content marketing research shows customer disconnect and need for ‘buyer enablement’

While the vast majority of enterprise-oriented marketers say they put their audience’s interests ahead of their products or services and are developing detailed personas, less than half of them are actually talking to customers to inform the stories they tell, according to the latest B2B content marketing research from the Content Marketing Institute. The data […]

B2B Influencers

Meet the top 21 B2B influencers to watch in 2018

The past year might have been full of talk about “influencer marketing” to consumers, but it takes a particular kind of person to influence marketers themselves.  What follows is a list of B2B influencers based on what our editorial team has observed amid on our coverage of major industry conferences, activity on social media and submissions from our […]

GE CMO Tells Content Marketing World Crowd to ‘Change the Lens’

GE will be spending the first week of October appearing where few B2B brands have gone before: on the TV channel owned by Vice Media to promote its DroneWeek series, the firm’s CMO told the Content Marketing World audience. In her keynote speech kicking off the three-day even in Cleveland Wednesday, Linda Boff said Drone […]