Ardath Albee
Ardath Albee
Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist and the CEO of her firm, Marketing Interactions, Inc. She helps B2B companies with complex sales create and use persona-driven content marketing strategies to turn prospects into buyers and convince customers to stay. Ardath is the author of Digital Relevance: Developing Marketing Content and Strategies that Drive Results and eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale. She's also an in-demand industry speaker.
How to Apply a B2B Buyer Persona to Your Content Marketing Strategy
In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of...
Create B2B Buyer Personas that Inform Content Marketing Strategy
89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with...
The Value of ABM Goes Beyond Marketing
Pushing product: it’s what B2B companies have been doing for years. Even if we say we’re putting the customer front and center, usually we’re...
A Lack of Customer Advocacy Could Make B2B Buyers Walk Away
I was interviewing a client’s customer a few days ago for a persona project and something he said made me stop and think. What...
Content Marketing Operations Halts Random Acts of Content
One of the biggest values that come with content marketing operations maturity is the ability to say “no” to ad hoc content demands. As B2B...
A B2B Buyer Persona is Not an Island
If you know me, you know I’m all about creating and using B2B buyer personas to drive content marketing strategy. I’ve created more than...
3 Pivots B2B Marketing Strategies Need to Create Compelling Experiences
The difference between a drive-by view and a meaningful engagement with your audience is based on the perceived value of the experience—by the audience. Unfortunately,...
The Problem with Scale for B2B Content Marketing
Using content for marketing in B2B companies has caught on with a fervor that continues unabated. And, even though only a small percentage of...
The Value of Content Operations for Committed B2B Marketers
Nearly all B2B companies are using content marketing to attract and engage buyers. We’ve been doing this for quite some time. But getting it...
The State of the B2B Conversation: Disconnected
Corporate Visions recently surveyed more than 400 B2B organizations to find out how one statistic is creating challenges at the intersection of content strategy,...
How to Hack Content Creation for Stretched-Thin Marketing Teams
A review of research on B2B content marketing over the last five years shows that the same problems persist—problems that continue to limit B2B...
The Push-Me, Pull-Me of B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment: Macro vs. Micro
As I prepare for a webinar discussing the critical gap between sales and marketing on Wednesday, a few thoughts occur about B2B sales and...
The Future of B2B Marketing is Personal
Let’s face it. B2B buyers are self-focused. There’s a gap between what buyers want and what B2B marketing content is giving them. There’s a...
Get Your B2B Buyer Persona Effectiveness Score
Does your buyer persona have what it takes to contribute effectively to content relevance that delivers increased marketing performance? According to the Benchmark Study on...
Give Your B2B Buyer Personas a Makeover
You’ve spent the time, effort and sweat equity to build B2B buyer personas. But, when you look at them, you’re not quite sure what...
Great B2B Customer Experiences Require Customer-Centric Marketing
Only 12% of B2B marketers rate themselves as “very effective” at delivering a great customer experience. No, that’s not a typo. It’s a finding from...
Content Marketing Operations: Best Practices to Calm the Chaos
The formation of a content marketing organization should result in individual roles that are beautifully synced. At least that’s the gist of how Jason Miller—who’s...
Shift from More to Better for a Marketing-Driven Customer Journey
Content marketing isn’t about creating and publishing more content; it’s about creating relevant, lasting relationships that result in profitable outcomes for your company—from awareness...
5 Ways B2B Content is Creating Fragmented Experiences
Content marketing for B2B companies is now an established route to market. It works when done well. But the problem is that it’s often...
Digital Relevance: The Introduction
I really appreciate the great reception my new book, Digital Relevance, has achieved in the first few days of its launch. For those of...