B2B Digital Marketing Insights
Fresh ideas and best practices from our team of B2B digital marketing experts
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Is Print B2B Advertising Dead?
Hardly. First we had the internet revolution, then the inbound revolution. Each of them were screaming that print B2B advertising was dead and buried. Yet when I walk into our media room here at the agency, I encounter wall of monthly trade publications. There are...
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Advertising in B2B
B2B advertising is a unique marketing animal. But how unique? Unique to the point where likely no one in your company has ever been specifically trained in B2B advertising. Small Numbers You don’t market to millions of B2B companies. Your customers are not counted in...
Which Came First? The B2B Marketing Agency or Tech Marketing?
Why Tech? People ask us, "how did a B2B marketing agency like Schubert b2b get into technology marketing"? The answer is simple. We didn’t "get into it". It’s who we are — it's what we were founded to be 39 years ago. We were born out of technology. It was a natural...
B2B Marketing Strategic Intelligence: Tips for Agency Clients
How often have you expected your B2B marketing agency to develop a powerful marcom strategy? Were you wowed when they presented “The Big Idea”? Most times this leads to disappointment for marketers. Sometimes it’s the agency’s fault, but not always. Here are some...
Have We Reached Post-Modern Marketing?
Art, music, architecture — they've all gone through a few different phases or eras. Speaking from a musical perspective, there are about six recognized artistic eras: early, medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modern...and even a semi-recognized post-modern era....
B2B Marketing: The Age of Feeling
B2B has always been considered a rational industry. Unlike B2C, where a consumer can impulsively buy a new brand of cookies, and if they don’t like them, they just throw the box out and get a different one. B2B is quite the contrary. Jobs are at risk, and companies...
Bolster Your Workflows with Educational B2B Messaging
Inbound marketing workflows are a great way to nurture prospects. To make them even more powerful, make sure your supporting content carries consistent B2B messaging. And more specifically, the messaging must address industry challenges and positions your company as a...
B2B Messaging Taking Back Center Stage
In the swirling activity of implementing marketing automation, many marketers have nudged the importance of B2B messaging off the stage. But, this is perhaps one of the biggest mistakes a marketer could make. While useful, software cannot replace marketing...
7 Things to Include in Your B2B Messaging Platform
Have you ever heard of "whisper down the lane"? It involves a group of people whispering a message from one person to another until the last player announces it to the entire group. As you can imagine, the messages the first and last person heard are usually quite...
5 Advantages of Partnering With a Digital Marketing Agency
You've thought about it, Googled it, brought it up at meetings, and you're heading in the right direction. Yes, it is time to partner with a digital marketing agency that provide the expertise, strategy, tactics and technology to drive more customers to your B2B...
B2B Messaging: Does Your Content Need to Be Innovative?
We’ve all had it. The desire to make something, but when it comes down to creating it, it’s like there’s a concrete wall standing in the way. An idea, but perhaps not the words to say it. Maybe even not an idea at all. It’s the scourge of modern marketers — whether...
B2B Digital Marketing Data — Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It.
B2B marketing data, let's talk about it. It's a real buzzword anymore, especially for every B2B digital marketing agency in Philadelphia. Marketing automation software has made data collection easier than ever. All the quantitative research you could ever want is at...
3 Reasons to Consider a Full-Service B2B Agency
Never before have B2B marketers had so many choices when it comes to marketing. Digital marketing tactics have made it possible to do many things in-house — such as social media, press releases and more. For marketers looking to improve singular tactics, there are...
Pull it Together –– How a B2B Agency Can Help Improve Marketing ROI
Disclosure: I work at a marketing agency. So it may sound a little — or maybe a lot — self-serving to write a blog post on the benefits your company can reap by partnering with a B2B agency. But please don’t click away just yet! Let me try to lure you into reading...
Digital Marketing Strategies: From Gestalts to Full Integration
Are you familiar with the term, “Gestalt”? It’s a German word meaning shape, form, or design. In English, the term Gestalt refers to a certain phenomenon where the brain perceives an organized whole as more than the sum of its parts. An example of a Gestalt in art is...
3 Easy Ways to Start Generating More Leads
No matter what industry you’re in, every B2B company is always looking to generate more leads and bring in more sales. According to BrightTALK, 80% of marketers report their lead generation efforts are only slightly or somewhat effective! So what can be done to...
What is PR and What Does it Mean for B2B Marketers in 2016?
As someone who studied PR in college, I received a fair amount of confused comments regarding my major. “Oh yeah sure, PR…what’s PR again?” or “You’re an HR major right?” and the dreaded “…so…what do you want to do with that?” There’s a good amount of confusion about...
5 B2B eCommerce Must-Haves
If your B2B company is still on the fence about selling online, consider this: B2B buyers are now more frequently buying online than over the phone and through other offline channels. In fact, B2B eCommerce is on course to hit $12 trillion in sales by 2020, according...
Control Yourself: Why B2B Branding Matters
Whether you are a start-up business or a long-established company, B2B branding is a vital part of your marketing strategy. Yet, it is often neglected because it’s a concept that can be tricky to wrap your head around. What is B2B Branding? Your brand is more than...
