Overview
Marketing Trends, Challenges and Priorities
- B2B Digital Strategy Overview
– B2B vs B2C
– Short-termism
– Business objectives and focus
– MQLs and SQLs - Brand building
– Why does it matter
– Inbound marketing - Lead generation
– Opportunities
– Meta, LinkedIn & Google
– On-platform conversion growth
– Lead magnets - B2B & Ecommerce
B2B Content Marketing, Engagement & Awareness Building
- Measuring B2B content marketing
– Reach
– Conversions
– Benefits of tracking macro vs micro conversions - Understanding demand generation
– Balancing demand generation and demand conversion
– Declared intent vs. Assumed intent
– Finding a distinctive way to add value
– Amplifying via owned, earned and paid media - Social media content marketing
– Pivot to video - Optimising content for search
– SEM vs SEO
– Generative AI - Email amplification
B2B Email Marketing
- Understanding what B2B audiences want
- B2B Email creative and copy best practices
– B2B email design considerations
– Engagement boosting
– Email copy and creative testing - Improving email deliverability
– Data hygiene and list management
– Unsubscribes
– Legalities - CRM and email tagging
– Email sequences
– Automation
B2B Ad Strategy
- Advertising in B2B
– Demand generation vs demand conversion?
– Full funnel campaigns
– Growth of LinkedIn
– Meta’s falling B2B star - LinkedIn Ads best practices
– Conversion tracking
– Pixel
– Attribution
– LinkedIn Ads hierarchy
– Ad strategy, targeting and creative - Google Ads
– Tapping into SEM
– Unlocking other Google Ads options
– Performance Max