Digital B2B Marketing

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Content Marketing and Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Digital B2B Marketing

Choose Your Own Adventure books were a staple when I was growing up. As a child, these books gave me a sense of control, they engaged me with choices and opportunities throughout the book. I could read them for hours, choosing different paths and seeing each outcome unfold. Today, B2B marketers use content to meet [.].

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Content Marketing and Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Digital B2B Marketing

Choose Your Own Adventure books were a staple when I was growing up. As a child, these books gave me a sense of control, they engaged me with choices and opportunities throughout the book. Here are three specific things content marketers can learn and apply from Choose Your Own Adventure books. Circle Back.

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Buyer Personas in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

I don’t normally recommend books, but these two are definitely worth your investment: Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? This continues to be my favorite book on personas (note it is not specific to B2B). Ardath’s book builds on personas to develop more effective B2B marketing. by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg.

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Does B2B Content Marketing Really Help Buyers Buy?

Digital B2B Marketing

If you don’t know who Sharon Drew is, she is the creator of Buying Facilitation and has written multiple books delving into how and why businesses buy, including the behind-the-scenes issues that sales, content and marketing automation often do not address today. Each time I came away thinking we can do so much more.

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Three Social Media Lessons Learned

Digital B2B Marketing

Books, seminars, or cocktail discussions are valuable, but it cannot compare to what you learn by rolling up your sleeves and doing something yourself. There is no learning like hands on learning. In that light, here are three things I have learned through my increased involvement in social media and starting this blog seven months [.].

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Why Marketing Benchmarks Are Bogus

Digital B2B Marketing

A number in some book or website, based on the results of businesses nothing like yours? Is my my email click rate good? Is my search conversion rate where it should be? Is my brand lift above average? Ummm, but what are you comparing yourself too? Published Benchmarks Are Garbage.

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Why Most B2B Marketing Efforts Are Wasted

Digital B2B Marketing

This quote from Nate Silver in his book The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t highlights the problem many B2B marketers are facing. The probability of most of these people becoming customers is zero. “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”