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Marketing influencers: our 2018 Top 30

We start March with our Top 30 marketing influencers of 2018. In March 2017, we did the same thing and the blog post was very successful. So, with much enthusiasm, we skimmed through blogs, B2C and B2B marketing sites. These influencers are all over the…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on March 8th, 2018.

Categories : Annual Rankings, Content Marketing, Influenceurs, Marketing Communication Strategies -, Marketing de contenu

B2B Marketing Conferences: what the schedules tell us about the trends

No one will contradict me if I say that to be on the cutting edge of the latest B2B marketing trends and to stay informed and connected, there is nothing better to do than to get out of the office. Not necessarily to get some…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on February 22nd, 2018.

Categories : Content Marketing, LIVE events and conferences, Marketing de contenu, Marketing Research

Don’t count on “fake followers”

Editor’s note: This is a slightly genetically modified post that was first published on our web strategist’s personal blog several months ago. We felt Claude’s article was still quite relevant in regards to social network management, and specifically to B2B. Claude looks at “fake followers”.…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on October 19th, 2017.

Categories : Content Marketing, Marketing de contenu, Réseaux sociaux -

Can you spend 4 minutes reading this post?

The question may seem simplistic or incongruous, but when you think about it, it opens the door to many different answers. We've been blogging since 2009 and in these immemorial times, best practices dictated short posts of about 600 words, divided up into roughly 60…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on October 12th, 2017.

Categories : Content Marketing, Marketing de contenu

Influence in Marketing: our top 30

For more than ten years, I’ve been working closely (and sometimes from afar), with many of the main Web marketing players in Quebec, but also from elsewhere. I’ve worked alongside or hobnobbed with hundreds of them over the conferences I’ve organized or attended here, in…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on March 16th, 2017.

Categories : Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing and B2B Business

Eighth top post in 2016 – 7 key elements of an Interactive B2B communications plan – part deux

In part 1 of this blog, I spoke about the first four key elements that define a communication plan. These are: the context, the stakes, the objectives, and the target markets, along with the axes of communication and messages. I used this as a basis…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on January 27th, 2017.

Categories : Uncategorized

Your favorites: our top 10 B2B blog posts of 2016

The month of January is a good time to take our best guesses about the year ahead. These days you’ll find a plethora of blog posts, speciality press articles as well as graphics and videos that try to anticipate what will be noteworthy over the…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on January 17th, 2017.

Categories : Uncategorized

Does B2B marketing take itself too seriously folks?

Recently, while working on our web site’s redesign, it dawned on us that it would probably be a good idea to "rebuild" our SMN (Social Media Networks) policy while we were at it. Since vision comes before policy (except in modern day politics, it seems),…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on October 18th, 2016.

Categories : Marketing de contenu, Uncategorized, Réseaux sociaux -

B2B Web communities: where does your business stand? Part 2

If you recall in my last post, a slim majority of respondents (12 vs 11) felt that groups or communities should be used to publish relevant content and not to spark conversation. Not encouraging for a community manager, but nevertheless, all respondents proved "moderately" to…. Read More

Published by : Claude Malaison, on August 16th, 2016.

Categories : Réseaux sociaux -, Social Networks

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