Manufacturing giants and industrial leaders are facing a pivotal moment. While tech startups grab headlines with their rapid scaling strategies, established b2b organisations grapple with a very different reality: How do you transform decades-old sales processes and market approaches when you're...
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Zoe Palmer
If you’ve yet to start a b2b blog, you’re probably feeling a bit daunted by the prospect. You know why you should have one: it helps to establish you as a thought leader in your industry, it’s great for search engine optimisation (SEO), it drives people to your website and helps to generate and...
4 min
By
Zoe Palmer
When you first started your business, you probably didn't have the most polished brand identity. And that's okay. Your focus was on building a viable business as it should have been. Money was tight, so you had to be careful with your investments. You wanted a brand identity that was functional and...
5 min
By
Zoe Palmer
As a business leader, it’s your job to make tough decisions. And in order to make those tough decisions, you need to know precisely what is going on in your organisation, as any decision based on incorrect assumptions could be detrimental. You may think you’re getting the complete picture – but the...
3 min
By
Zoe Palmer
The tension between sales and marketing is as old as time itself, but now the data shows it. According to research, 40% of salespeople say that prospecting is the hardest part of the sales process. And it seems a lot of salespeople simply did not feel like their efforts were being supported by...
4 min
By
Beth Storck
Creating a great user experience (UX) isn’t a difficult concept to understand, but often not quite as easy to execute effectively and the impact on your business can be substantial. Website visitors and product users obviously expect seamless and smooth interactions and transactions. Mobile devices...
4 min
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Andrea Hoymann
You’ve spent blood, sweat, tears and the better part of your hair building up a thriving and shiny startup. What you may have failed to realise is that in this frantic, stressful time, your business is not the only thing that has emerged changed – you have.
3 min
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Zoe Palmer
In the 1981 film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, our eponymous hero uses the Staff of Ra to guide him and his companion in unearthing the Ark of the Covenant (before the villains do). The staff is integral in illuminating the way forward. Literally.
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Zoe Palmer
The rumours you’ve heard are true. The content marketing monster is a hungry beast. No sooner have you fed it a chunky slab of lead-generating meat than it reaches for a side of supporting blog and a sky-scraper chaser.
6 min
By
Andrea Hoymann
A marketing automation system is a big investment and it can be a powerful tool that supercharges your b2b marketing and pays for itself. But some of you out there are probably not quite as enamoured with the marketing automation platform you’re using in your business. In fact, you might be feeling...
6 min
By
Zoe Palmer
Strong brands enable b2b organisations to transcend product features and build a more enduring, emotional connection with buyers and other stakeholders, by reflecting some of the values they hold dear. Uncovering what is truly important to your stakeholders is a powerful and transformative process...
3 min
By
Andrea Hoymann
For many b2b businesses, inbound marketing is often adopted half-heartedly and not fully integrated with the rest of the business. This means that results often fall short of the 4:1 ROI that is achievable within the first year. A functioning inbound marketing pipeline depends on you going ‘all in’...
6 min
By
Zoe Palmer
Let me begin with a story. It’s late on a Thursday. I come off an overseas client conference and take an immediate oath to break up with our web conferencing software - the direct cause of my stress headache. Google time!
