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B2B content marketing services

B2B content marketing

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Business to business buying involves several people, a long gap between interest and purchase, and a procurement process that rewards whoever made the shortlist look obvious. Content is how you get on that shortlist before anyone contacts you.

B2B content marketing services
B2B content marketing services

Writing for everybody in the decision

The person who wants your product and the person who signs for it need different things. One needs to know it works, the other needs to know it is a defensible choice. We produce material for both rather than aiming everything at the enthusiast.

  • 1. Awareness
    During this phase, potential customers are becoming familiar with and understanding your business. To begin this process, we use targeted advertising and lead magnets that effectively introduce them to your offerings
  • 2. Consideration & decision
    After obtaining persona information through lead magnets (where prospects fill out brief forms to access your assets), we utilise marketing automation techniques to nurture and “warm up” leads to guide them to the final stage.
  • 3. Purchase

    Leads at this stage of the journey are ready for sales discussions and want specific information and details. This is the ultimate goal of our B2B content marketing strategy!

    We focus specifically on each stage of the buyer’s journey to effectively communicate and fulfil their needs. We believe that properly executing this process is crucial for generating high-quality leads and increasing sales.

B2B content marketing services
B2B content marketing services
B2B content marketing services

Proof rather than claims

Case studies with real numbers, technical detail that survives scrutiny, comparisons that admit where you are not the right answer. Business buyers are professionally sceptical and honest limitations do more for credibility than superlatives.

Material the sales team will use

The test of B2B content is whether your own salespeople send it. We build it with them, which also means it gets used rather than sitting in a folder nobody has bookmarked.

Tell us what happens between a first enquiry and a signed contract, and who is involved. That path is what the content has to support.

B2B content marketing services

Online advertising

Planning the mix around how your customers actually decide to buy, then running the parts that earn their place.

Lead generation

Attracting enquiries that become customers, and fixing what happens in the first hour after one arrives.

Website design and development

Agreed scope, fixed price, and a site your own team can run afterwards without calling us every week.

SEO

Finding which boring reason is holding your rankings back, then doing something unglamorous about it.

Paid search

Buying intent rather than volume. Tight structure, a negative keyword list that is actually maintained, and pages that answer the search.

Social media advertising

Reaching people who were not looking for you. The creative decides the result more than the targeting, so that is where we put the effort.

Marketing automation

Worth having when it does something a person would otherwise do late, such as following up an enquiry within the hour.

Content marketing

Publishing things people would seek out anyway, built from the questions your sales team already answers every week.

Conversion rate optimisation

Converting more of the traffic you already have, which is usually cheaper and faster than buying more of it.

B2B content creation services FAQ

How long is a B2B sales cycle?

Often months, sometimes over a year. That changes what content is for: staying credible over time rather than converting on the first visit.

Do case studies actually work?

They are consistently the most requested material in B2B, particularly ones with real figures and a named client. Anonymous ones are worth far less.

Should we gate our content?

Some of it. Gate the substantial pieces, leave the rest open so it can rank and earn links. Gating everything limits reach for little gain.

How do we measure it?

Assisted conversions and pipeline influence rather than direct attribution. Expect to accept some imprecision here, and be suspicious of anyone claiming otherwise.

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