In this article, Ian Truscott takes a look at educational content marketing as a strategy and goal, what you can do to engage the big bucket of future buyers and how we measure success.
Category: Content marketing
Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
As content marketers, we want to be useful, and educational content can be useful. But how do you get the balance right with a knowledgeable buyer between helping them or treating them like bloody idiots?
5 F’in’ Steps to Build Your Personas
A simple model for creating personas, the essential insight you need to differentiate and help your audience buy your products and services.
The 5 R’s of a great B2B marketing blog (with examples)
In the deluge of B2B content, how do you stand out? Try these 5 R’s, with examples of organizations doing this well…
Personalization Doesn’t Build Relationships, Content Does
We seem a bit obsessed with “personalization at scale”, but as B2B marketers, should this be a priority?
5 Reasons Successful Tech Start-ups invest in Content Marketing
The successful telling of the story around a product is recognized to be as important as the product itself. This is especially essential for start-ups looking to stake their claim in the market, Ian Truscott shares his experience.
Cover the B2B Bases with 5 Content Types
We might not baseball experts, but we have a bit of experience creating content across customer journeys and in this article Ian Truscott outlines the five types of content needed to support a B2B buyer…
Create a Content Hub and Engage Your Crowd
We are a fan of content hubs, low branded thought leadership web publications as a place for consumer and influencer engagement. Having created a few, in this post we share a bit of that experience.
6 Reasons to Get a Creative Buddy
There is a lot to juggle when you are leading a marketing team and creativity can be lost at the crucible of internal resistance and getting shit done, I know, I’ve been there. Help could be close at hand – get a creative buddy.
Why invest in persona development?
In an era of big data, agile marketing, A/B testing, fail fast – is persona development still a good use of your time?
ART in B2B Marketing Creates Outcomes not Outputs
It’s easy to be distracted by techniques, strategies, channels and outputs, but focus on ART and create outcomes.
Feel the fear and be different anyway
As Seth Godin said “Products and services that get talked about are the ones that are worth talking about.” so, how do you stand out?