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...
4 min By Zoe Palmer
Market share is arguably the most important metric when it comes to judging how a business is performing. That’s not to say that other metrics like brand awareness, customer satisfaction and revenue growth aren’t important – they are – but measuring yourself against yourself may give you the wrong...
4 min By Zoe Palmer
So you’ve decided you need marketing automation, and you think HubSpot might be the right fit for you. But when you navigate to HubSpot’s pricing page, you’re met with a long and somewhat bamboozling list of features. Just what does it all mean, and how do you work out which Hubspot subscription –...
3 min By Zoe Palmer
At Bc, we see this all the time when we’re assessing companies’ b2b content marketing. People are frustrated with their so-called "b2b lead generation blogs" because they’re just not attracting the amount of traffic they want. They feel like they’re doing everything right: they’ve created a strong,...
4 min By 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...
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.
5 min By 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.
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!
3 min By Beth Storck
Creating captivating b2b infographics that can charm and inform simultaneously can sometimes be a bit like geo tagging Dory from Finding Nemo. Where do you even start?
5 min By Zoe Palmer
In an ideal world, your marketing content should be like the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz - a shiny, glittering, well-posted path that ultimately leads your customer to where they need to be — your business.
According to a recent study by the Content Marketing Institute, 88% of b2b marketers are using content marketing in their marketing mix. However, only 32% of organisations have reached a high level of maturity and sophistication in their b2b content marketing strategy.
4 min By Zoe Palmer
Is it colour or color? And do we write 5 or five in a headline? What about okay, ok, OK or o.k.?
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