The B2B Playbook

By: Kevin Chen & George Coudounaris
  • Summary

  • Selling Business to Business? Trying to do everything, but not sure if any of it works? We’re here to help! We're Kevin and George - digital marketing professionals who are here to share with you the RIGHT plan so you can get your amazing business growing online. We’ve waded through the noise, made the mistakes, and found what works so you don't have to. We also share tips, tricks and templates from our upcoming playbook and insights from successful people in the industry. If you’re in a B2B business and like to see your marketing work for you, then this is the podcast for you! Subscribe to get the latest from the B2B Playbook first. Join our CLUB of B2B owners and marketers on LinkedIn sharing their experiences https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13980317/ Want more? Check out our weekly articles on https://theb2bplaybook.com/ Remember, with the right plan, anyone can grow their business online!
    Copyright 2025 Kevin Chen & George Coudounaris
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  • [repost]: Mind Tricks in B2B Marketing part 1: Reciprocity & Commitment & Consistency (behavioural science) - Be The Best
    Jan 5 2025

    Neuroscience and B2B marketing.

    It seems like there’s a wide gulf between the two only the biggest of businesses and industry experts can bridge in their work.

    But that’s not true! All you need is the knowledge of the key principles and some examples to help guide your thinking as you start to apply these ideas to better frame your own marketing efforts.

    Chances are you’re already familiar with and actioning some of these things by applying The 5 Be’s Framework, in which we’ve baked in a lot of these ideas!

    We start our miniseries on Neuroscience by looking at the principles of reciprocity and consistency.


    While we try not to play too many mind tricks, there’s certainly a few levers here you’ll be able to pull to better help your dream customers!



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    06:10 The Power of Triggers: Mother Turkeys' Instinct

    13:10 Introduction: The Power of Reciprocity

    14:00 Building Relationships through Giving

    15:30 The Principle of Reciprocity in Action

    17:00 Giving Value without Expectations

    18:20 Commitment and Consistency in Marketing

    19:50 Cognitive Dissonance and Consistency

    22:20 Small Commitments Leading to Bigger Actions

    23:50 Nurturing Relationships with Value

    24:50 Moving Up the Value Chain

    27:00 Conclusion and Recap


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    34 mins
  • [repost]: How to Turn Customers into Advocates: Unlocking the Power of Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) to Grow Faster
    Dec 29 2024

    CABs, Customer Advocacy Boards.

    Little known wonders of the B2B marketing toolkit.

    While they’re not right for every business and for every stage of growth, it’s an important one to cover off. Because it could help you close the loop on the growth cycle.

    We get another truly helpful expert, this time in CABs, to come talk to us all about it in this week’s episode. Taylor Bogar joins us right in the midst of building another set of CABs, sharing some market leading insights on them!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • [repost]: #55: Rand Fishkin - Why Marketers Need To Play The Long Game And Be Helpful, The Limitation of Personas, How To Start Creating Demand
    Dec 22 2024

    Our guest this week almost needs no introduction!

    Setting aside the fanboying from us, our guest share some real marketing wisdom that we’re sure everyone can benefit from!

    Rand Fishkin, probably well known to most of our listeners, is the founder of SparkToro - an audience research tool that we’ll get into more in the episode. He’s also the Cofounder of Moz, one of the world’s largest SEO companies.

    He and the team at SparkToro are doing amazing things to help the little guys when it comes to audience research and doing the type of marketing that just doesn’t work for the big boys in town. And that’s a good thing!

    He generously share some of his view points, which we couldn’t agree more with here at The B2B Playbook.

    Some key highlights:

    • Paid channels’ incentive right now is attribution, not conversion!
    • Demand generation is infuriatingly hard, if not impossible to measure. So that’s why most marketers don’t do it, and as a result it’s a huge opportunity because costs are low and inventory is high.
    • Personas can be limiting, as they often don’t reflect the breadth of people within a collective group. They should be broad and diverse, but they’ll still allow you to understand where they get their information from and how the groups are made up. That type of personas are truly useful.
    • When you change the fundamental question at the core of your marketing strategy, you open up the possibility for a more effective, long term and valuable relationship. When that transactional nature fades into the background and a value giving relationship is had, lots of things improve. Think of a tinder relationship vs meeting someone through friends.
    • A ton to learn from classic marketing thinking, but the world is nuanced and requires a tailored approach.
    • Value building events offline, particularly small ones, are immensely satisfying and rewarding.


    Tune into this week’s episode for more!


    Links To Mentioned Resources:

    https://twitter.com/randfish

    https://sparktoro.com/


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    1 hr and 6 mins

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