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How Design Thinking Can Improve Your B2B Communication Strategy

Design Thinking is not a new concept, yet it’s not widely applied to B2B communications. But if you really need to connect with highly technical audiences, you should get to know this flexible approach to innovation. Why Design Thinking? Because engineers and other technical professionals recognize empty marketing in a heartbeat, and they hate Read more...

By |2023-05-15T07:21:02+00:00May 4th, 2023|

Event horizon: will live marketing remain a feature of your toolkit in 2021?

So it’s here. 2021. A year that arrives with new hope injected by the rollout of Covid vaccines across the world. However, an unrelenting wave of lockdowns and restrictions to quell coronavirus transmission makes it incredibly awkward to predict a clear roadmap for marketing activities. In particular, a challenging set of questions surrounds event participation Read more...

By |2021-04-28T18:06:45+00:00January 13th, 2021|

Best B2B video guide for electronics marketers

Yes, I thought ‘Best B2B video guide for electronics marketers’ was a recklessly bold headline too. It might seem an audacious fanfare, but this blog will present some useful insights on video content in a fast-evolving business landscape. So without further ado, and avoiding any further hyperbole, let’s ‘make like Amazon’ and deliver the Read more...

By |2020-06-11T16:38:16+00:00June 11th, 2020|

Technical content marketing tip 4: three ways to evaluate 3rd party sites for your content

In B2B technical content marketing, particularly in electronics and engineering, there's a host of 3rd party trade media sites that welcome authoritative contributed technical articles, white papers and blog posts. Most of them are astute enough to ask for unique content because they're aware of the tendency of search engines to downgrade duplicate content with respect Read more...

By |2018-08-13T11:25:21+00:00January 30th, 2018|

Overhauling lead generation strategies in response to new buying cycle dynamics

When I started in the industry almost 20 years ago, buying cycles were generally pretty simple. The electronics component vendor I worked for (like any other B2B manufacturer or service provider) placed print editorial and advertising in trade magazines to inform prospective customers about the new products it offered. Interested readers would then send enquiry Read more...

By |2017-09-13T08:19:04+00:00July 11th, 2016|