There’s a new breed of infographics in town. Slick graphics purporting to inform, but practicing 3 types of deceptions. Here’s an example and what to look for.
Read more →The recently published 2011 Demandbase B2B Website Demand Generation Survey Results highlighted 5 findings from its survey of 100 B2B marketing and IT professionals.
But what I found most interesting was what their data revealed but they didn’t highlight: 2 dirty secrets of content marketing.
To highlight these conclusions, I converted Demandbase’s results into graphics.
Read more →Mark Twain, sadly, failed abysmally as a business man. He invested in innovative products that would ultimately be hits, but bet on the wrong people. Perhaps his many failures led to this critical insight.
Read more →When marketing techniques like inbound marketing, social media marketing, and content marketing are on a hot streak, they are promoted as if they have equal value to all B2B companies.
Some B2B companies get burned investing too much in these tactics, then protest that these tactics don’t work for B2B companies.
The truth is, their value in terms of helping produce leads or driving prospect awareness and interest is proportional to the number of prospects you target.
Here’s how to size up how much of your time and budget should be spent on these investments.
Read more →So your B2B company invested heavily in social media marketing, and the results were underwhelming to say the least. Were you incompetent or just unlucky? The fact is, you might have been doomed from the outset – you just didn’t realize it.
If you haven’t already experienced this pain, here’s how to avoid being lured into relying on social media when it’s not appropriate.
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