There’s a lot of pressure on your B2B marketing content to perform. It has to connect with all of your different buyer personas, it has to pull them along all the steps in their buyer’s journey, and ultimately it has to transform them from a prospect into a lead, ready for interaction with your sales team.

Remember mass marketing? If you do, you’re probably familiar with rotary dial phones, and maybe you even owned a Walkman. Mass marketing – which for a long time ruled the sales process – is vanishing into history, along with floppy disks and fax machines. Now, thanks to the internet, content marketing is king, and it completely changed the way companies sell their products and solutions.

Altijd beschikken over inzichtelijke online marketing data is hét ideaal. Dat maakt performance based marketing mogelijk en zorgt voor blije gezichten in de boardroom en bij klanten. In de praktijk vergt dit veel tijd en geld met bijvoorbeeld de ontwikkeling van een complex KPI dashboard en het continu bijhouden van de dashboard data. Een goede rapporteringsservice maakt het verschil. Die neemt niet alleen die zorg uit handen, maar helpt ook de marketing strategy aanscherpen.

Wat is de waarde van de marketing strategy? Wat leveren de online marketing channels nu echt op? En zijn die leuke social media posts ook doeltreffend? Meten is weten. Daarom zijn marketeers dol op cijfers. Maar verzamelen, analyseren en rapporteren kost veel tijd. Speciale marketing tools nemen wel wat werk uit handen, maar een goede analytics tool en rapporteringsservice levert meer op.

For this blogpost, we interviewed internal communications expert Marieke van Duijnhoven, responsible for employee communications and engagement at Carglass® in The Netherlands. The company’s shift toward increased innovation called for a new vision on internal communications.

For certain types of consumer products or services, brand ambassadors play a key role in spreading the word.Companies that sell products like vodka, headphones or makeup, or organizations promoting events build buzz with brand ambassadors who interact with selected demographic groups. To succeed, these ambassadors must be credible, authentic and trusted by their audiences.

More use of social media video; greater decentralization of content. What latest research now shows.

Overall, it’s poor management that quietly strangles good B2B material. Here’s how to fix it. Most marketing executives produce high-quality B2B content that contributes to direct and indirect revenue. 77% of marketers say effective B2B communications is a core element of business success. More than €4.73B is spent on content creation and distribution. That’s something to live for!

Introduced to the market earlier this year, SONAR’s initial version allows healthcare and technology-driven organizations to understand what has taken place in their digital ecosystem during a given period, and identifies important trends and events (what happened on which channel, for example).