The B2B Content Marketing Workbook

Your prospects are being buffeted by a firehose of information. If you’re hoping to win their attention, you’d better be prepared to earn it.

Content Marketing is your way to cut through the noise and hop over the barriers.
This short, sharp eBook summarises how we at Velocity approach it, including:

  • What Content Marketing and Thought Leadership are
  • Why you need to get good at them (and fast)
  • Why you’re perfectly placed to do it really, really well
  • How to pick a topic prospects care about
  • How to go beyond the dry, stale white paper
  • What we think ‘good’ looks like — lots of examples

This is our primer on content marketing. We’ve also done an awesome B2B Content Marketing Strategy Checklist that’s a step-by-step, hands-on guide to creating your own content marketing strategy.


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This, along with the excellent Content Marketing Strategy presentation, are both really helpful for explaining the concept of Content Marketing to businesses. Thank you.

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Thanks Rachel, Jeff, Richard and Kristen.
We really appreciate the feedback.

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Excellent, thanks guys.

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