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Insights, learnings and stories from the world of B2B marketing and communications, direct from Velo’s B2B agency team

Lottie O'Donoghue

A commercial leader through and through, before Velo, Lottie led the marketing function of a scale-up tech SaaS platform moving to the world of agencies to run Accenture’s ABM and marketing activity across EMEAR.  Now, Lottie leads the agency's teams for new business clients across brand strategy projects through to websites and campaign activation. She also owns Velo's own marketing, too.

B2B Audiences, B2B Marketing in manufacturing

Need a B2B persona for production managers in an industrial setting?

Knowing your audience is the first step in constructing strong B2B marketing campaigns. You need to understand their motivations and pain points, but also how you can pragmatically reach them. This series of articles provides deep dives on the audiences we target most regularly here at Velo.  In most manufacturing and industrial plants, customers with […]

B2B Strategy

How should B2B marketers approach 2024? 

This article follows our “2024’s trends in B2B marketing for those targeting a niche” article and focuses on what you can do to navigate 2024 as a B2B marketer targeting a niche.    This article follows our “2024’s trends in B2B marketing for those targeting a niche” article and focuses on what you can do […]

B2B Branding, B2B Campaigns

How to roll out new brand communications without damaging brand strength 

If you target a B2B niche, your brand becomes one of your most crucial assets. It can both help you and harm you. What we often see is that it can lose potency as it is rolled out. The hero assets are brilliant, creative and hard-hitting. By the time the roll-out is covering product brochures, […]

B2B Audiences, B2B Campaigns, B2B Content, B2B Marketing in Insurance, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience

Is there more to marketing effectively across EMEAR than just translating your marketing? Yes. 

Is there a country called EMEAR? Has anyone ever said they live or work in EMEAR?    Does everyone that lives in France have the same habits, preferences and challenges as people that live in Germany?    Of course not. So why do so many B2B marketers treat EMEAR as if it is all one homogeneous zone?  […]

B2B Branding, Customer Experience

Why do B2B marketers need to go much deeper to understand their customers? Making the case for expanded Buyer Personas.

  Answering this question is where Velo, and any self respecting marketing professional should, start with all clients.   When was the last time you read a blog, an article, a social media post, watched a video or listened to a podcast and thought – wow that really spoke to me? It wasn’t just a case […]

B2B Content, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience

How can you increase the number of your B2B case studies that get signed off?

  As a B2B marketer, one of your key goals is to use thoughtful storytelling to create success stories that demonstrate your product or service’s power. Particularly for B2B marketers in the technology and professional services sector, success stories are key as a sales enablement tool. They are also essential for reinforcing credentials within the […]

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