On average, B2B buyers consume 13 content pieces before making a purchase decision. Long-form content delivers that. When done well, it fuels search visibility, supports lead nurture, and positions your brand as a credible partner — not just another vendor. And strategy matters. This post breaks down the long-form content approaches that still work — and how to make them pay off.
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Digital Marketing Trends in 2025
What digital marketing trends should B2B teams focus on in 2025? This post cuts through the noise with practical insights on AI, analytics, buyer behavior, and more — so you can spend less time chasing trends and more time getting results.
Blog Marketing: 10 Sources for Inspiration
All too often when we work with clients on a blog marketing strategy, we get these questions: What should we write about? Where do you go for inspiration? As any writer knows, getting stuck comes with the territory. Here are a few of my favorite sources for inspiration when looking for blog marketing ideas or snippets …
Black Hat SEO Exposed
SEO can be a tricky topic to navigate, especially if you’re not following current news articles and developing technologies. The concepts are very simple: make your website easy to understand, find, and load, for the search engine. However, the ways of achieving that simple goal are almost limitless. With SEO the little changes you make on a website can mean significant improvement in organic search. Because of that, you have lots of options. However, not all of the options are “good.”
What Is White Hat SEO?
Are You Following the Rules? When I explain White Hat SEO in a UC Berkeley Extension course or sales discussion, most people nod and agree with the theory of playing within the search engine optimization rules. Until the discussion turns toward timing and results. Can you guarantee that I’ll be on page one for most …
Why Keyword Stuffing is Bad for SEO
Keyword stuffing might help for short-term visibility on SERPs. More often, these website pages are quickly targeted by Google and other search engines. After a few months, it’s typical that those keyword-stuffed pages have lost momentum and are ranked poorly (if at all).
Blog Traffic: Attraction Factor – Part 2
Attracting Followers & Filling Your Funnel Here’s part two on how to gather your crowd for your website and increase blog traffic. In Blog Traffic Attraction Factor Part 1, the first tip talked about why consistently published content is important for SEO rankings and gaining followers. Two is all about encouraging comments while 3 and …
Online Marketing Trends for 2014
A Marketing World in Flux Understanding current and future online marketing trends is essential to staying competitive. Although the year is bound to bring some surprises, courtesy of Google algorithm changes, past marketing trends are likely to continue to grow in 2014. 1. Must-Have Mobile Content According to Super Monitoring, 91 percent of all people …
Small Business Marketing Statistics
37% Without a Website. That’s just one of the surprising small business statistics that came out of our Google Partners Connect event Wednesday. Read on to find out that the number of California businesses without a web presence is even higher!
B2B Content Marketing Trends in 2022
According to one recent survey, making a strategic investment in content marketing is at the top of many CMO’s priority lists. 43% of people say that spending in 2021 was higher to that end than the year before, and 66% of respondents expected another increase in 2022 as well. In fact, one out of five said that their increase would be almost 10%.