Survivor’s Guide: What Tech Startups Absolutely Must Know About B2B Marketing
There is a lot of confusion about when #tech startups need marketing (or whether they need it at all!) and how to make it work.
Archive for year: 2014
2015 Content Marketing Predictions: The Accountable Marketer
As we approach the end of the year, B2B marketers (and lots of other folks) are rolling out predictions for 2015. Much like the past few years, we are seeing a lot of talk about the increased use of analytics in marketing, and a trend toward holding marketers accountable for bottom-line results.
Lessons from a Giant-Killer Content Marketing Program
One way for a small company to get noticed is to pick a fight with a well-known firm using the principles of content marketing. What I think of as a giant killer. This blog will show how the little guy, J Carlo Cannel pulled of huge coup by writing a letter to Jim Cramer (big financial influencer) and then getting it covered in the New York Times.
5 Tech Content Marketing Lessons from Weird Al’s Latest Album
In July, Weird Al Yankovic released his latest album, Mandatory Fun. His approach was both successful and creative.
Stop the CMO Merry-Go-Round in Technology Marketing
It’s not uncommon for several people to shuffle through the CMO role. Why? Are talented CMOs really so rare? Do companies have irrational expectations? Or are other forces at play?
Humanizing B2B Marketing with Visual Content
As SAP CMO Jonathan Becher famously stated, “…big glass buildings don’t buy software, people do.” So why do so many marketers still act as though they’re selling to big glass buildings? It’s time to humanize #B2B marketing. It’s time to create content that speaks to people and their needs, behaviors, and points of pain. Good marketing should provide value and offer experiences that make the audience want to look, want to read, want to engage.
How Does Transcription Affect Your Content Creation?
Remember all those late-night conversations you had in college? What if you had a record of all the things you said, all the problems you solved, all the ideas that you couldn’t quite put back together the next morning?
Size Matters: The Power of Microstories
Everyone wants to know what makes a good story. But a novelist is in a very different business than an ad copywriter. Stories in the context of marketing and branding are too brief to use techniques of classic storytelling like narrative arcs and character development. Effective branding stories are told obliquely; they still involve characters with problems to solve, but the narratives that exist are fragmentary and depend on the viewer to complete or even originate them. To coin a term, we could call them “microstories.”
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