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 […]

Showpad Voicefox

Showpad adds ability to transcribe and analyze sales meetings with AI via Voicefox acquisition

Showpad on Wednesday will announce an acquisition that will bring artificial intelligence-based voice recording and transcription analysis to its customer base of sales professionals as a way of boosting their productivity and effectiveness. The Chicago-based firm, whose software offers a range of sales enablement capabilities to B2B firms, said it has purchased Voicefox, a two-year […]

marketing to millennials

How B2B Marketers Can Market to Millennials

B2B marketing in the traditional manner is no longer a choice. Developments in technology have modified how buyers research and discover products and services. Now, there is an advanced group of buyers who are well known with the new digital landscape known as millennials. Millennials favor a different approach. They are more willing to do […]

outsource content

6 Places To Outsource Content For B2B Websites

Outsourcing content can help to make companies, like those in B2B, more versatile; getting the work done as necessary without having to directly employ staff. There are plenty of companies that can help with outsourcing. Some specialise in stock photos, others in videos. Some provide copywriting services and others provide infographics. They all work slightly […]

social media

B2B Trending Conversations: Fun with Social Media, Hiring the Perfect SDR, Maximizing SEO

Welcome back to another edition of B2B Trending Conversations, our weekly roundup of what’s trending in the social media B2B space. This week, we feature posts on hiring the perfect sales development rep, making boring B2B brands come alive, predictive marketing software and more. We’ve also selected a pair of infographics, including one on using […]

Who’s winning in the video content marketing space?

In today’s era of fast-paced information and short attention spans,  B2B firms and marketers that overlook videos may soon be left in the dirt. Telling compelling brand stories can be challenging for B2B companies. An oft-cited reason is that their products and services aren’t as “glittery” as their B2C counterparts. Nothing could be further from […]

Inside look at why mobile video advertising is growing fast

There is no doubt that mobile video has already become the primary focus for the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, particularly when it comes to these brands’ respective ad efforts. Recent research uncovered mobile video advertising is growing three times as quickly as desktop video advertising. B2Bnn breaks down the numbers. BI Intelligence Shows […]

3 ways personalization can boost your B2B video marketing

Personalizing your B2B marketing is one of the easiest ways to cut through the noise in today’s busy marketplace. Why? Because our identities are hard-wired into our psyches (the fancy name is interpellation), and we immediately recognize ourselves when someone says our name. That’s why marketers try to personalize their content for us. They know […]

Canadian advertisers harnessing power of mobile video

Canadian advertisers are continuing to expand their video strategies at a rapid rate. Advertisers in Canada are using a variety of platforms, including mobile video, which is growing at an immense rate, says a new study. Last week, Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising, released a report titled “First Quarter Canada Video […]

Courting a Valley VC: Inside Vidyard’s big raise

Guest post by Anthony Reinhart. Reprinted with permission via News.Communitech.ca When you’ve met “the one,” you just know. This might be one of the biggest relationship clichés out there, but then, clichés wouldn’t be clichés without a good deal of truth behind them. The courtship story behind this week’s news that Vidyard had secured an $18-million Series […]

The 4 social media TED Talks you need to see right now

As social media continued to evolve in 2014, businesses big and small scrambled to keep pace. In these four TEDx talks, global business influencers discuss ways in which companies, employees and individuals can maximize the potential of social media. We’ve embedded the video in this article to let you watch every talk easily from just one page. […]

What you need to know about the state of online video display advertising

With online video display advertising poised for significant growth in the next five years, two factors are top of mind: quantity and quality. Online video, in some ways similar to television with its ability to “tell stories” that are particularly strong at creating brand awareness, is a medium unlike any other, especially for advertisers. According […]