Recently I found myself at the Digital Summit in Denver, surrounded by fellow marketers in a familiar discussion about how we can better align sales and marketing teams to truly provide a cohesive customer experience. This particular discussion resonated with me more than most as it took a step further than just restating that cohesion needs to happen and actually provided tactical tools to facilitate this in reality.

We know that as B2B marketers, we need to speak a specific language and communicate benefits to a very targeted audience. Content needs to be specific and come in different forms than it does for regular consumers. It doesn’t stop there. Tactics for B2B specific marketing extends to SEO too. Specific B2B SEO is a niche area that we don’t often hear about but that doesn’t mean it’s something you should ignore.

Content marketing — it’s definitely a buzzword and though the term may be overused, the concept shouldn’t be overlooked. At the heart of it, content marketers are recognizing that the buying journey has changed, and they are responding to those changes. Prospects don’t sit back and wait for companies and brands to tell them what they need. With the onslaught of information and access these days, they will tell us what they need and when they need it.

In our latest post we share guidance on how to approach your 2019 planning and provide a template for goal setting and marketing strategy planning for Q1.

As marketers in B2B have embraced the Inbound methodology, the funnel has been a standard framework that sales and marketing organization have operated within. The funnel has become a triaging tool to manage prospects and has incited cries all over the world for “more leads!” But the funnel is ultimately broken.