Updated May 2024
Overview
2024 B2B Marketing Trends, Challenges & Opportunities
- B2B Digital strategy overview
– B2B vs B2C
– Short-termism
– Business objectives and focus
– MQLs and SQLs - Brand building
– Why does it matter
– Full funnel campaign developing
– Proving the business case
– Inbound marketing - B2B beyond sales
– Product Led Growth
– Ecommerce
Developing a B2B Marketing Strategy
- B2B Digital strategy framework
– Strategy vs tactics
– Key components
– Big picture thinking
– Full funnel campaign developing
– Investing in creativity - B2B beyond sales
– Product Led Growth
– Ecommerce - Inbound marketing in B2B
– Channel integration
– Customer avatar development
– Content planning
Analytics and Performance Measurement in B2B Marketing
- Measuring your B2B strategy
– What’s the point?
– Tracking full-funnel success
– Short-term and longer-term KPIs - Upper and lower funnel data
- Establishing conversions
– Macro conversions
– Micro conversions
– Attribution
– Path visualisation - B2B Campaign tagging
– Avoiding common pitfalls
– Understanding UTMs
Content Marketing for Business Audiences
- Content marketing for B2B
- Understanding demand generation
– Finding a distinctive way to add value
– Tone of voice
– Amplifying via owned, earned and paid media
– Planning
– Processes and systems - Social media content marketing
– Pivot to video - Optimising content for Search
– SEO vs SEM - Email amplification
SEO Copywriting Essentials
- Optimising user journeys to drive more conversions
– Reducing friction
– Collating quantitative and qualitative CRO insights - SEO copy optimisation
– Page titles
– Header tags
– Image tags
– Meta descriptions - Optimising Search content marketing performance
– Boosting engagement
– Encouraging repeat visits
– Rich results
Social Media Marketing in B2B
- B2B content in social media Rise of short-form video
– Tik Tok-ification of content marketing
– Generative Al impact
– B2B video
– Content creation tools
– Generative Al - LinkedIn content creation & engagement
– LinkedIn Feed & engagement
– Video growth
– Maximising employee interaction
– Groups
– Showcase and Product pages
Email Marketing, CRM and Automation
- 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
– Engagement tagging - Customer relationship management (CRM)
– Email sequences
– Automation
Advertising & Thought Leadership in B2B Marketing
- B2B ads strategy
– Full funnel campaigns
– B2B ads channel mix
– LinkedIn’s ad business: From zero to hero - Social ad strategy, targeting and creative
– Set up
– Objectives
– Targeting
– Apple iOS 14 impact
– Ad formats and creative - Maximising your people
- Search Engine Marketing (SEM)