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How to Name a Product: A Guide to Creating Effective Product Names

Naming a new product is a crucial step. A good name can communicate the product’s value proposition, differentiate it from competitors, and create a positive association with customers. But how do you find a name that meets these criteria and resonates with your target audience? That’s where market research comes in.

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Add some “Why you” to your content marketing

Content marketers should consider adding questions to their content marketing surveys that highlight why their solution is a better approach than your competitors. Based on the typical B2B buying journey it may be mutually beneficial to have some solution-related information in your content marketing materials. In addition, more mature markets provide a natural opening for solution-related information.

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Practical sampling decisions for your content marketing survey

Surveys are an essential part of many B2B content marketing programs. Unfortunately, response rates to surveys continue to decline across B2B sectors. As a result, programs that once hit 600 completed surveys can struggle to reach half that number today. This post looks at factors driving the decline in response rates and offers steps you can take to help mitigate or slow the drop-off in your content marketing surveys.

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Be more systematic in your content marketing surveys

This post provides two frameworks you can use to help develop more compelling and valuable marketing content. A key is to systematically identify the data needed to tell a story, rather than hoping an interesting story will emerge from the data.

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When to use ROI in messaging

As compelling as ROI calculations can be in the sales process, they don’t always resonate as expected in messaging strategies. This seems to contradict the marketing tenet of connecting solutions to revenue and the bottom line. What is going on? One factor is that your solutions ROI sits within a broader context of time, priorities, and internal perceptions.

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Are you messaging to threshold conditions?

B2B marketers feel pressure to include threshold conditions in messaging – they can be deal-breakers. It’s natural to want to get them on the table preemptively. But in most cases, B2B providers would be better off messaging to the benefits their solutions provide and highlighting their competitive differentiation.

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Content Marketing Surveys: Advice for Using Survey Data to Show Solution Effectiveness

Can B2B users of more robust or advanced solutions have lower self-reported performance scores than businesses that use simple or good-enough solutions? The short answer is, “Yes.” And this can throw a monkey wrench into content marketing efforts that use survey data. This post talks about what drives this surprising outcome and how to mitigate it with survey design.

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Realistic B2B Brand Tracking Research

This post provides guidance for setting the right cadence, setting expectations, and tracking the overall story, to create realistic brand tracking studies.

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Metrics that Predict B2B Messaging Effectiveness

Product and brand messaging is part art, part science. The art includes the storytelling, compelling visual elements, tonality, and the brand personality. These elements are best left to the creative teams. Research rarely improves them. The science comes in when predicting and evaluating the effectiveness of an individual message, ad, or campaign. This post reviews some of the elements common to effective messaging.

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4 Elements of Effective B2B Product Marketing Messaging

B2B product marketers wear many hats, one of which is building messaging platforms for the solutions in their portfolio. This post outlines four elements we believe represent the core pillars of any messaging effort.

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