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ABM, B2B Advocacy, B2B Content, B2B marketing in manufacturing, B2B marketing in Professional Services, B2B marketing in Technology, B2B Strategy, Customer Experience
Case studies under NDA: how to build credibility when you can’t name names
Practical ways to create compelling content when confidentiality is a genuine constraint Have you ever brought something from Amazon without checking reviews, or booked a hotel without checking TripAdvisor? These days, it’s unlikely. Reviews have become the lifeblood of sales, building customer trust, credibility, and product or services validation. That’s why in B2B marketing, case […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B marketing in Professional Services
Does your customer advocacy programme really pay back?
Customer advocacy shapes commercial performance in ways few other initiatives can. Get it right and you strengthen win rates, reduce acquisition cost and protect lifetime value. Get it wrong and margin quickly starts to slip. Buying and renewal decisions are no longer made on spreadsheets alone. They’re influenced by first-hand experience and credible proof of […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B Audiences, B2B Branding, B2B Campaigns, B2B Content, B2B marketing in Technology
How Tech Marketers should prepare for 2026
Most B2B tech marketers are optimising for the wrong outcome. They’re chasing reach, perfecting attribution models, and testing endless variations of the same campaign. But when a prospect is ready to shortlist, when a customer is asked for a recommendation, when a board member needs a supplier, your brand either comes to mind, or it […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B Audiences, B2B Branding, B2B Campaigns, B2B Content, B2B marketing in Professional Services
How Professional Services Marketers should start 2026
There is a hard truth. Nobody wakes up excited to hire a facilities management company. No finance director celebrates finding a new insurance broker. Building services, business services, B2B insurance – these aren’t impulse purchases. They’re considered decisions about who you’re going to trust with something important: your operations, your risk, your reputation. And when […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B Campaigns, B2B Content, B2B Creative, B2B ESG, B2B marketing in manufacturing
How Manufacturing Marketers should approach 2026
When your value is invisible until something goes wrong The best health and safety equipment never makes the news. Precision-engineered components that perform flawlessly for twenty years earn no headlines. Medical devices that work exactly as designed don’t generate case studies about dramatic turnarounds. In manufacturing sectors where success means nothing goes wrong, marketing faces […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B Audiences, B2B Research
Customer recommendation is the main metric that matters in B2B marketing.
In B2B, there’s one signal that matters. Not your CTR. Not your MQL count. Not even your pipeline size. Just one thing – would your customer recommend you without being asked? If it’s no, the rest of the metrics don’t matter. You’ll have issues with retention and repeat business. Recommendation is the real signal of […]
B2B Advocacy, B2B Content, B2B Search, SEO & GEO
How do you write an SEO-optimised B2B case study for your website?
Remember that a good case study on your site is a balance. Optimising it for SEO to make it discoverable, should happen without compromising how well it reads for the human who is viewing it. It must be compelling. The main elements to think about are listed below: Who is searching and at what stage […]
ABM, B2B Advocacy, B2B Content
What makes a great title and executive summary for a B2B case study?
It is a balance – good case study copy on your site is packed with SEO optimisation to make it discoverable, but without compromising the fact that a human is reading it, so it must be compelling. A copywriting tightrope… Good B2B marketers write case studies for readers, not robots. Your headline needs to […]
How to successfully prep your interviewees for video customer testimonials
Let’s face it, being interviewed in any capacity is not the most natural thing in the world to endure. Throw a camera into the mix….. and well, ‘rabbit’ and ‘headlights’ is the most likely outcome for your interview subject. But with video customer success stories and case studies becoming a key marketing tool in the […]
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