Humanizing B2B: The new truth in marketing that will transform your brand and your sales

by Paul Cash, James Trezona

Overview

If you want to move products, you need to move people. And if you want to move people, you need to move minds.

This is what modern B2B marketing is all about.

It’s time to wake up to the power of branding, purpose, stories, emotion, people and culture to drive growth.

There is something incredibly exciting happening in B2B land. Freed from a narrow focus on performance marketing, brands are becoming more interesting and more relevant.

This book brings together the latest thinking on humanized B2B marketing, to help leaders and their businesses grow, dominate their categories, and become meaningful in today’s demanding world.

PAUL CASH is a creative entrepreneur and storyteller on a personal mission to humanize B2B marketing. Recognized as one of the Top 20 most influential B2B marketers, he is the founder of Rooster Punk, the go-to agency for B2B storytelling.

JAMES TREZONA is a strategist, marketeer and MD of Rooster Punk. He uses the power of storytelling to empower businesses to reap the rewards of putting purpose at the heart of their business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788602518
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Cash is a creative entrepreneur and storyteller on a personal mission to humanize B2B marketing.Recognized as one of the Top 20 most influential B2B marketers, he is the founder of Rooster Punk, the go-to agency for B2B storytelling

James Trezona is a strategist, marketeer and MD of Rooster Punk. He uses the power of storytelling to empower businesses to reap the rewards of putting purpose at the heart of their business.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

The meteor is coming 1

Part I Why B2B marketing has to change 19

What you're doing isn't working 21

The new truth 37

Human-to-human 55

Part II Humanizing B2B: What you need to know 75

The way we think 77

The five principles of humanizing B2B 101

Storynomics 123

The likeability factor 155

The undeniable facts 175

Rise up B2B 193

About the authors 199

Acknowledgements 201

Editorial Reviews

For years I've been trying to convince my students and training attendees that LinkedIn is not and shouldn't be a sterile, boring and conservative place. Nothing B2B-related should be like that! Quite the opposite - valuable professionals usually are valuable and likeable people as well. The same is true for B2B brands - selling to other companies doesn't require acting as a robot, since all companies are made of people and we're all marketing and selling to other people. While browsing on NetGalley for new #businessbooks, I found a title that caught me with the same messages and values - 'Humanizing B2B' by Paul Cash and James Trezona, founders of Rooster Punk, a B2B Storytelling agency. It will be available by the and of April and it is a must for every B2B marketer. Just a couple of the stuff I've highlighted on my e-reader: - Paul and James have created five principles to show that humanized B2B marketing is not as complicated as it might seem - it's about people, not products; you need a purpose that's actioned; emotion is at your marketing code; likeability is transformational; and storytelling is your vehicle. - They have gathered useful models and tools for great storytelling (the Brand archetypes model, the five-stage Story framework model, etc.)

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