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In any profession, it is recommended to look to those who have achieved great success — learn from them on how they achieved their goals and how to avoid many common mistakes. B2B marketing is no different!  So, if you aren’t already, you should start taking advice from industry experts who openly share their successful tricks and tactics with the world.

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What follows is actual advice from some of the hardest hitters in the game. From Neil Patel and Brian Halligan to Seth Godin, you are about to learn the ways of marketing from the world’s best and brightest marketers working today.

Stop Ignoring Facebook Ads

Neil Patel

Neil Patel (@neilpatel) is the Founder of QuickSprout and CrazyEgg, and is also one of today’s most well-known digital marketers. His website receives millions of visitors daily and his materials have been downloaded by marketers and organizations alike for impressive results.

Neil is a major advocate for paid ads, but he says there’s one paid ad platform many B2B marketers are ignoring: Facebook.

Neil points to a graph by Contently that shows that Facebook is a monster when it comes to demand generation.

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Neil says that, “getting more shares means gaining more attention. More attention means more potential for conversions. Simple as that.”

He added that Facebook ads are effective because you’re not just casting a wider net. You’re also engaging with a community that cares about original B2B content.

The Handbook for Modern Marketers

Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan (@bhalligan) is the CEO of HubSpot, which is one of the foremost marketing platforms in existence. Last year he offered some terrific advice for B2B marketers.

In an exclusive blog post, Brian offered four major tips for all B2B marketers, which included investing in video, living in social, accelerating content, and automating the buying process.

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When it comes to converting text to video, Brian suggests marketers “diversify your content playbook to include social + video in addition to text + search.”

By living in social, Brian is referring to marketing to actual humans. In this regard, he said, “Humans live in Snapchat, Instagram, Messenger, and a host of other social apps. Find them there.”

Accelerating your content means to combine content and paid marketing. He said, “Repurpose your most successful content for multiple channels and boost it with a budget.”

Finally, Brian advises that all B2B marketers automate their conversions. After all, as the expert marketer so eloquently stated, “buyers expect to be able to buy on their timeline with either minimal or no human contact.”

Maintain an “Audience-First Mentality”

Ann Hadley

Ann Hadley (@annhadley) is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author, digital marketing pioneer, and tiny house owner. Ann complains that far too many marketers love talking about themselves. She says that we get so caught up in our own products and services that we forget about our customers and their problems.

Ann suggests B2B marketers adopt an audience-first mentality, which she states is a critical mindset for any content program, as it means you’re putting the needs of your audience above your own.

Ann begins this process by asking several important questions, such as, “What does our audience need from us? What will they value? How can we improve their lives?”

To help with this exercise, Ann emphasizes that brands put their products and services and “revolutionary solutions” in the context of what people care about most.

Ann finishes by saying, “a clearly defined audience is one of the foundations of a successful content program. Think audience. Not leads. Without it, content is merely a tiny asset wandering in the wilderness – shivering, alone, friendless.”

Here, Ann is advocating creating a content marketing strategy that allows your audience to rely on you for information, help, and advice, essentially building a relationship built on trust.

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Reach Doesn’t Equal Trust

Seth Godin

Seth Godin (@ThisisSethsBlog) is one of the foremost authors, bloggers, and digital marketers of our day. His advice is heralded by gurus and luminaries across a myriad of industries. Seth says that one of the fundamental flaws in most digital marketing strategies is the assumption that your brand must reach mass amounts of people.

As he puts it, “Reach is almost always the wrong path. It’s easy to collect a crowd on Main Street. You just parade a bunch of super models and people will stop. But that doesn’t mean that you’ve earned any trust and it’s trust and customer traction that build organizations.”

Seth adds, “Being known by lots of people isn’t really the goal; it’s a by-product of certain kinds of marketing for certain kinds of products. What you’re really seeking is to be trusted, to be heard, to be talked about, and to matter. And if we look at any brand that’s succeeded, that is what they have done.”

Conclusion

There you have it; advice from some of the best and brightest digital marketing experts of our time. In order to incorporate these tips and achieve your marketing objectives, you need to document a clear marketing strategy.

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About Tomer Harel

Tomer Harel is founder and CEO of KeyScouts, and co-founder of Spectoos.com. He has been practicing Internet marketing for over a decade, helping hundreds of businesses to thrive online. If you'd like to contact Tomer or have him speak at a conference, meeting or event, please drop him a line via email (tomer.harel at keyscouts dot com).

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