BBNmixtape

Being on social media is important, but you don’t have to be on every platform. Figure out where YOUR audience is. When someone Googles your business name, your organic social media presence will appear on the first page, so organic social media is important for your brand.  In this episode, Josh McGee from BBN partner TricomB2B answers questions like what platform should B2B marketers put the mos...

Our guest today is a professional and deliberate networker who knows a thing or two about creating and nurturing authentic business relationships. In today's world, networking is a necessity. It can help nurture leads which develop into lucrative business opportunities. But, for many of us, it's not easy. In fact, it can be extremely daunting, especially for introverts. Jennifer Valencia...

In this first face-to-face recorded episode, Ed Davis chats with Chris Eifert from TricomB2B, a BBN partner agency based in the US. After participating in a client event hosted by the agency, Ed and Chris discuss the event's highlights around long-term brand and marketing effectiveness, sustainability and the ongoing debate around how much content businesses need to produce to be effective an...

It's official! Google is pretty clever at filtering out poor content. That's great news for us and businesses that want to improve their Google search rankings by delivering content their customers want. It is terrible news for those who try and 'cheat the system' with AI-generated content and still try to hide 'invisible' keywords on their pages. Join us on this epis...

In the next 30 minutes, Zoe Elmore, Head of Media at BBN London, will share her two cents on why there has never been a better time for B2B marketers & brands to be bold with their data, media and amplification strategy. We'll discuss how COVID has affected media consumption and how the media landscape has evolved to tip the scales toward focusing on tactics that have typically only been...

In this episode of BBN Mixtape, we elevate our conversation and look at some macro events affecting the marketing industry. From discussing the consolidation happening among agencies, the shift in agency working practices, or how short-term, tactical execution continues to dominate long-term, strategic approaches, we dive into what agencies are getting right and where we can improve.

Nearly ten years ago, the head of HR from a little-known petrochemicals business contacted BBN Partner Fifth Ring for support in evolving their brand. Little did anyone know at the time that both client and agency would learn a lot about each other, and how brands can be built and endure. This podcast explores the assignment from both sides of the table including the considerations by the client i...

Be yourself, bring your real self…mottos that rule today’s roost. But the journey to authenticity is often complex and fraught. What does it mean to be authentic? What would it take to to translate it from top-level leadership all the way down to front desk operations? What does it take to understand why we do what we do? We explore these questions and more in understanding experiential authentic...

Analytics has typically been too slow to be operationally relevant to making business decisions. In this conversation with Mark Stouse, CEO of Proof Data Corporation, we discuss the advancements in marketing analytics that make it possible to avoid the tyranny of intuition and cooked data, and establish analytics as an inseparable coach and bodyguard to helping achieve desired business outcomes. 

We delve into a much anticipated B2B Marketing Research Report 2022 that involved a record number of organisations from across the globe, including BBN and Australian partner Green Hat, sharing their plans and perceptions for the year ahead. Shorn of an agenda, unlike vendor-sponsored narratives, this is a handy statistically-relevant, data-rich study to set marketing compasses by. Listen to get t...

TM ONE, the enterprise arm of Malaysia's leading telco demonstrates how their brand and content strategies are helping to generate year-on-year growth in marketing-attributed revenue, along with uplifting their brand association as a trusted partner for digital transformation.

Join Joel Harrison, Editor in Chief at B2B Marketing as he chats with BBN's Face of The Future event keynote speakers about the key challenges at the core of the B2B marketing industry dilemma: brand building, putting strategy before tactics and fostering a mindest to create the right culture. This is a recording made immediately after the event when Joel got together with our speakers to cha...

Face it, it's a job seeker's market. Your company's reputation is as vital a consideration as your brand perception. But the former is neglected for the most part, often by the best in the business. Together with Carola Hecker, Client Services Director at wob AG, we unpack the essentials of implementing an employer branding strategy.

Once upon a time, the brand ruled. Now, obsessed with performance marketing, B2B appears to have consigned brand marketing to the backseat. Is this wise? Richard Parsons, Founder and Managing Director of True, helps unearth the ramifications of such “sole-priority” approaches and nudges us towards restoring brand to its rightful status in the marketing pantheon.

You are often equated to the brands you create because it evokes gut feelings that may (or may not) be unfairly be associated with your business. Its incumbent upon you therefore to manage it with active leadership involvement. Together with Peter Lyall, Group Director Strategy at Fifth Ring, we discuss how to carve out a brand strategy that will hold strong and guide your business as it navigates...

Digital marketing promises a lot: eliminate wasteful advertising, enable finetuned measurements, marketing nirvana. Yet, it is faltering on many fronts. What's going wrong? Marco Luciano, Board Member at wob AG helps us delineate the landscape and set data-driven marketing back on track.

B2B marketing campaigns rarely elicit the awe and frenzy of their B2C cousins. Creativity often gets hustled out by data, martech and metrics. In this episode, we explore the role of creativity in B2B marketing withour guest Ned Brown, Chief Creative Officer at Bader Rutter.

At a time of always-on marketing, organic visibility can never be discounted. But being found by those who need you at the right stage in their buying process? That is an art that also needs the guiding hand of strategy. Together with our guest, Svenja Volk from WOB Germany, we demystify the (dark) art of B2B SEO.

Brand marketers and performance marketers often work at cross-purposes or worse, cross swords. Our guest, Rodger Jones, brand strategy director at Bader Rutter, reminds the performance marketers among us about the relevance and importance of brand strategy.

Selling through partners and distributors is a proven model of growing the business for B2B companies. Together with our guest Dr. Marcelo Castro - Founder & CEO of MarketLogic, we explore what it takes to devise and operationalise campaigns that keep channel partners active and productive.

With marketing budgets slashed, and trade shows and exhibitions frozen in a post-pandemic world, focused marketing efforts like ABM rule the day. Our guest, Prajwal Gadtaula, Founder & CEO at Business Brainz, shares how customised, in-depth desk research reports can help marketers get the best out of their ABM efforts.

Over 95% of marketing-generated leads in B2B never yield sales results - a failure rate that is unlikely to be tolerated in an era of diminishing marketing budgets. We hear from Andrew Haussegger, co-founder and CEO of Green Hat, why ABM is the only way forward to garner new leads and retain existing clients.