This article was originally published by B2B Marketing Magazine in the build-up to B2B Ignite 2018 – the world’s biggest B2B growth marketing event and recommended by entrepreneur.com as one of the top 10 conferences to attend…
There’s a nasty little trap that us B2B marketers can fall into if we’re not careful. A potentially perilous pitfall that can stop us from achieving what our companies pay us to achieve. Worse still, you … Trolls, tribes and a B2B trap to avoid
“My total impression of any brand is made up of my experience of using it and whatever I have received, digested and accepted from the communications about it. Perhaps most important, my view of a brand’s personality depends on my impression of its competitors. Everything is relative…
How much our brand will appeal to people will depend on its relationships with competitors. This means that advertising [or other marketing communication] objectives must always be set in terms of: the changes desired in our brand; and comparison with other brands.”
JWT Planning Guide
I recently wrote a poem for B2B marketing magazine, about B2B marketing. More specifically, I wrote a poem about B2B marketing that totally sucks, and what us B2B marketers should do about it. You can read the poem here >
Wind the clock forward a few days and … I was honoured to receive this…
The Business Marketing Club recently hosted a debate on the future of marketing. At a boutique hotel overlooking London’s Natural History Museum, 40 B2B client-side and agency-side marketers discussed … A glimpse of the future – what’s next for B2B marketing?
“Brands need discipline. They need strategy. They need focus. They need to deliver. What they don’t need is a bunch of mercurial horseshit about being agile, which – let’s be honest – essentially means they bin the strategy and head in whatever direction the wind happens to be blowing at that moment. Most marketers need less agility, not more. They need to stick to the fucking plan. Or, in most cases, actually spend time building a plan to stick to.”
Professor Mark Ritson, via Marketing Week
There are many factors at play when a customer picks a B2B product or service. Here (in an article that was originally published in B2B marketing magazine), I explore one of the key ones, presenting the important consequences for B2B marketers. I share some lessons that I believe are both timeless and will help us become more effective marketing communicators. But before I get to that, I thought it might be useful to start with a little bit of Hollywood… … Murder, mystery and comparison – helping B2B customers to pick you
Welcome to the latest instalment of B2B marketing ‘the movie’, in which I tenuously link topical B2B issues to classic movies. While some of my past instalments have been entirely lighthearted (see The Life of B2Brian or Bridget Bones’s To-Do List, for example), this one has somewhat of an ominous edge… … B2B marketing – the movie – part 6: Datapocalypto
