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Current B2B Content Marketing Challenges to Beat

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Every year, Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs release their latest B2B marketing research. This year the report includes a chart of current B2B content marketing challenges. Let’s look at 4 content marketing challenges and how you can defeat them. Many of them aren’t content writers—nor do they want to be.

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How Marketers Can Help Reps Use Sales Content Effectively

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Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Content truly focused on what your buyers and customers need to know becomes integrated with your products—just represented by media that you create and publish. Just as your products continue to be viable year after year, so should your content that relates to them.

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Is Your B2B Content Creating a Sum of Knowledge?

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B2B content doesn’t create a sum of knowledge as one-off random acts of content. To create influence, your B2B content needs oomph, conviction, and purpose. I’ve written about the need for B2B content to have a point of view. But here’s where a lot of content goes wrong…. Differentiate & Strengthen Your Brand.

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Point of View in B2B Content Changes the Game

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Since the start of the pandemic, content has flooded digital channels trying to gain the attention of self-reliant buyers. And much of the B2B content produced is leaving buyers cold. We often think of thought leadership as somewhat of a specialty format of content. Like Pillar content or content designed to drive “lead” gen.

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Selling Your Company on B2B Content Operations

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You’re creating content—lots of it. If the trend holds steady—which B2B marketers indicate it will—you’ll create even more content next year. Content has become almost as much of a product as the actual products and solutions your company provides to your customers. And content is the versatile weapon of choice.

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B2B Nurturing for Lost Opportunities

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Content Ideas for Lost Opportunity Engagement. Competitor Content: Just bear with me… If you have a competitor publishing great, relevant content that speaks to a reason you lost an opportunity, such as lack of differentiation, here’s your opportunity to show why you’re a better choice—without dissing the competition.

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B2B Nurturing for Net New vs. Existing Customers

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Unfortunately, many marketing campaigns provide the same content to both buyers and customers. Therefore, the same content isn’t useful for both contexts. What if they’re not using some of the features and functions – then educational content would apply, right? As well as show them that the content really isn’t for them.

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