Insights

Content & Authority Marketing

Buyers shortlist the vendors they already recognise. This is what we have learned about earning that recognition: what to publish, how to make it worth someone’s time, and how to tell whether any of it moved a deal. Written for teams with no content department.

This is the thinking behind our authority program.

Frequently asked questions

Asked about this topic, answered straight.

What is authority marketing in B2B?

Publishing that makes a company a known quantity before a buyer is ready to talk. In B2B technology the buying group researches privately for months, so the goal is to be the vendor they already recognise when the shortlist gets written, rather than the one that shows up in an ad at the end.

How much content does a B2B company actually need?

Less than most publishing calendars assume, and better. A small number of pieces that answer the questions your buyers ask before a decision will outperform a high volume of posts written for a keyword tool. Depth is what gets cited, linked and remembered.

How do you measure content when the sales cycle is long?

Not by traffic. The useful signals are whether the accounts you want are reading, whether content shows up in deals your sales team is already working, and whether the pages that rank are the ones tied to what you sell. Attribution on a nine month cycle is directional, and treating it as exact is how teams end up cutting the work that was compounding.

Should a small team hire a writer or an agency?

It depends on whether the bottleneck is production or judgement. A writer helps when you already know what to say and cannot get it published. A partner helps when the harder question is what to say at all, and what to stop doing. Our Authority program is built for the second case.

See who's ahead of you on the shortlist.

Give us your name and 4 or 5 competitors. We'll build a free report showing where they're visible, where you're not, and what it would take to close the gap.

Then we walk you through it live, on a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no pressure. If the answer is you don't need us yet, we'll say that too.

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