B2B marketing insights for
those targeting a niche
Insights, learnings and stories from the world of B2B marketing and communications, direct from Velo’s B2B agency team
B2B Branding
B2B marketers are often balancing immediate lead pressure with the longer job of building preference, memory and trust. Branding is not just about logos or tone of voice. It is about helping buyers recognise you, remember you and feel confident choosing you in a crowded, low-attention market.
That means learning about positioning, value propositions, messaging, distinctive brand assets, brand salience, differentiation, emotional branding, consistency and the relationship between long-term brand building and short-term activation.
Our insight articles and Marketing Map explore what strong B2B branding really looks like, how brands grow and how marketers can create brands that are more memorable, more meaningful and more commercially effective.
B2B Branding, Customer Experience
What storytelling process should you follow when building your B2B brand?
Crafting creating and engaging storytelling for B2B marketing Part 2: The process of storytelling In a three part blog series, agency strategist Rene Power looks at why storytelling in b2b marketing has become a go-to approach for so many marketers and how to start doing it effectively. This second post outlines the concept of the […]
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 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 Branding, B2B Marketing in Insurance, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience
Why should B2B Customer Advocacy Programs be more than just stories?
We know customer stories are powerful. Customer experiences engage, influence, educate, and entertain others like them far more than promotional content. In a world where more and more buyer research is conducted online, success stories are a valuable part of the B2B marketer’s tool kit, offering tangible authenticity to a company’s claims when developed […]
How does brand awareness in a B2B niche lead to growth?
Over the years, there have been many B2B marketing studies that changed the industry’s thinking. You’ll be familiar with their headline results but often keen to know more – and to review the original source. This series of articles provides an overview of the research and how they apply for B2B marketers targeting a niche. […]
B2B Branding, Customer Experience
How to create a B2B podcast series – and why you should
The article is about the why, what, how and where of creating a B2B podcast. Using our experience of producing Creative Covenant’s Marketing for Cybersecurity series, we are sharing our specific tips and learnings for making podcasts an essential component of your wider marketing strategy. Podcasts are huge – and ubiquitousLet’s start with some stats: […]
B2B Branding, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience
What does best practice brand communication look like in the technology sector?
The Velo team looks at five technology brands implementing good marketing practice and where they could be improved further. In a post at the start of 2022 – What are the top marketing challenges facing technology businesses and how to fix them? – we outlined five key challenges we see technology companies confronting when it […]
B2B Branding, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience
Is there a place for WhatsApp for Business in B2B marketing?
Marketing communication becomes more fragmented every year, with more tools and technologies emerging that are taking community and communications into private channels. The pandemic forced even the most security conscious B2B operations to recognise they needed to open up to using third party software to streamline their operations, and improve the customer experience. B2B companies […]
B2B Branding, B2B Creative, B2B Marketing in manufacturing
What are the best resources to help B2B marketers keep up with the latest developments in the industrial sector?
An essential resource list of news sites, blogs, podcasts, trade associations and more for marketing professionals working in industrial marketing. Staying up to date with all the changes and developments in the industrial and B2B manufacturing space can be a real challenge for marketers. To help, we’ve pulled together a list of the best resources […]
What can B2B Marketers learn from those using social media well? | B2B social media best practice
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