Written by: Vickie Sullivan  |  April 09, 2013

B2B Marketing Trends

Yes, I know we are solidly into 2013, but I couldn’t pass up this infographic on B2B marketing trends for 2012 by Curata.

Your suspicions have been confirmed — content marketing is used by 87% of the respondents last year, up 5% from 2011.  Key challenges are creating origina lcontent (69%), finding the time to do it (65%), and finding quality content (43%).  All areas that we can help with, don’t you think?  Prediction:  a big growth area for thought leaders are partnerships with those who have big lists but no time for content creating.

The dark side:  using events to market is used only 62%, down 6% in only one year.  Translation:  those marketing meetings that have been so popular in the past are waning.  You speakers who are hot in this segment need to expand your appeal, pronto.

I’ve just scratched the surface here, so check out the infographic and report for yourself.