Category Archives: Content marketing

Brand Olympics

Origami Logic Scores Gold with “Brand Olympics” Campaign

Origami Logic is a marketing analytics company and a global leader in marketing performance measurement. The company’s technology helps large brands master their marketing performance by unifying and refining their vast array of marketing data, across every channel and platform, so they can see what’s working and what’s not. During… Read More

ready to buy

How Do We Find People Who Are Ready to Buy Our Product?

A prospective client asks: “What are the best demand generation strategies for finding people who are ready to buy our product?” My response: Finding highly-qualified, late-stage prospects has less to do with demand generation channels or tactics, and much more to do with content. For example, if you offer prospects… Read More

successful survey campaigns

5 Tips for Successful Survey Campaigns

I’ve been working in B2B marketing long enough to remember when Webinars first burst onto the scene as a lead generation device. At first, the concept of “online seminars” was so novel that the topic of the event barely mattered. However, very quickly, Webinars became so popular that B2B audiences… Read More

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Why Are People Not Engaging With Our Content?

According to a recent report, “The Content Marketing Paradox,” content marketing output increased by 35 percent in 2015, while engagement dropped 17 percent. The author of the report, digital marketing solutions provider TrackMaven, theorized that the primary reason for the discrepancy is that there’s a “limit to how much content… Read More

holiday email campaign

Why This Holiday Email Campaign Misses the Mark

It’s that time of year again, and B2B marketers everywhere are dusting off the usual holiday clichés in an attempt to weave good cheer into their demand generation campaigns. Take the email campaign below from security vendor Symantec. Sure, they can be forgiven the holiday theme (gift boxes, fir trees,… Read More

generate more leads from your blog

10 Ways to Generate More Leads from Your Business Blog

If you’re not generating leads – as in: a lot of leads – from your company’s blog, you’re missing out on what is perhaps not only your best opportunity to convert organic Web traffic into actionable, measurable sales inquiries, but also the best way to actually show real ROI from… Read More

Spear TechValidate Survey Report

Which Content, Tactics & Technologies Are Driving Demand Generation ROI?

A recent survey by content automation company TechValidate and B2B agency Spear Marketing Group provides useful insight into the content, tactics, and technologies proving most valuable for today’s B2B marketers. More than 200 marketing VPs, directors and managers responded to the survey, which asked respondents to identify the crucial factors… Read More