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Insights, learnings and stories from the world of B2B marketing and communications, direct from Velo’s B2B agency team
B2B, B2B content, Content Marketing, Customer Experience, Search, SEO & GEO
Parallax and SEO: A Guide to Balancing Visuals and Visibility in B2B marketing
In the digital ecosystem, websites usually become a balancing act for the art of design with the science of SEO. While web designers advocate for clean, visually striking websites that captivate and engage visitors – SEO experts continue to push for structures and content that pleases search engines, sometimes at the expense of design simplicity. […]
Brand Comms, 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 […]
B2B, B2B content, Customer Experience
What are the building blocks of a powerful B2B brand story?
Crafting creating and engaging storytelling for B2B marketing. Part 1: 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. There’s no doubt that content matters more than ever. The nirvana of […]
Brand Comms, 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, B2B content, Content Marketing, Customer Experience, Industrial, Professional Services, Technology
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 […]
B2B, B2B content, B2B Research, Customer Experience
Is it time for recommendations to supersede pitches in the B2B buying process?
I admit it – I don’t like pitches. Agency pitches are highly common as a way of selecting a new partner, but they often bear little resemblance to what the real working relationship will be like. Many companies are forced to rely on pitches in lieu of another option. They’re bounced into evaluating options […]
Brand Comms, Customer Experience, Industrial, Professional Services>B2B Insurance, Technology
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 […]
B2B, Brand Comms, 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: […]
Brand Comms, Customer Experience, Professional Services, Technology
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 […]
Customer Experience, Search, SEO & GEO, Technology
What the switch to GA4 means for B2B marketing – and how to get ahead
In October 2020, Google announced that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) will replace Google Universal Analytics (UA) and that UA will stop collecting data in July 2023. Whilst there is still nearly a year before the current analytics tool is phased out, many experts recommend moving now, as you’ll build up more historical data within the […]
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