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, 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 […]

Paul Crabtree

4 Mar 2026

B2B, Professional Services

What my favourite romantic movies taught me about B2B marketing 

(Apparently, all starring one of two Julias – must be my ‘type’!) Romantic films endure for a reason. They understand people – their insecurities, quirks, and moments of connection. Strip away the meet-cutes and soundtracks, and you’re left with something B2B marketing still struggles to get right: how relationships actually work. Valentine’s Day got me thinking… are […]

Helena Phillips

3 Mar 2026

B2B, 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 […]

Paul Crabtree

27 Jan 2026

B2B content, Industrial, Professional Services, Technology

Why is B2B content like preparing the perfect pancake?

Why Is B2B Content Like the Perfect Pancake? One of the most effective ways to create digital content that excites and engages is to align it with something you love. Not only does this keep your enthusiasm high, but it also makes your content more compelling for the reader. So, in the spirit of Pancake […]

Helena Phillips

4 Mar 2025

B2B, Professional Services

Are you being specified? A briefing for manufacturers to become a mandated choice.

  Being specified by a consultant positions a manufacturer’s products as preferred solutions within projects, effectively endorsing the product’s quality, compliance, and suitability. Increasingly, greener products with less environmental impact are also being specified.  This endorsement can provide significant leverage, as the consultant’s recommendations often influence other decision-makers, such as project managers and architects, throughout […]

Helena Phillips

6 Jan 2025

B2B, Professional Services

How to create a high impact corporate sales deck

  Presentations are key for sales teams. The difference between a good and bad presentation is made up of many factors:  1. Take the reader on a journey  A good sales deck has a flow and a talk track that moves from today’s situation through to a better world by working with your company. We […]

Lottie O'Donoghue

9 Dec 2024

B2B content, Professional Services

Boosting B2B brand authority with content syndication 

  In B2B marketing, establishing your brand as a thought leader is essential for building trust and credibility with your audience. However, you are not the only ones looking to do this. It is saturated. You are competing for share of voice. It is not impossible, just harder than is perhaps used to be. One […]

Lottie O'Donoghue

23 Aug 2024

Creative Thinking, Industrial, Professional Services, Technology

B2B Web Design Trends for Technology, Professional Services, and Manufacturing Brands 

  As part of our drive to embrace AI (Artificial Intelligence), this article was generated to write up the discussions in our internal Sector Inspector deep-dive workshops. In these sessions, our team works together to investigate, explore and understand a specific challenge. Through it, we drive deeper agency-wide knowledge into our sectors. Modern B2B websites […]

Barry Lemon

15 Aug 2024

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 […]

Lottie O'Donoghue

28 Apr 2023

B2B, B2B content, B2B Research, Content Marketing, Professional Services, Technology

How to conduct good discovery interviews

  B2B marketing to a niche must be based on solid research. As a result, we’ve developed our own version of a discovery call in our mission to support companies targeting a niche. Traditionally used in sales, for us a discovery call is a chance to explore and understand complicated products and services quickly, especially […]

David Carey

14 Feb 2023

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