8 Steps to Ignite Your B2B Marketing Campaign with Integrative Marketing Fusion

In the grand performance of B2B integrated marketing, imagine orchestrating a strategy that resonates like a symphony, hitting all the right notes with your audience. With our guide, you become the maestro of marketing, adept at crafting crescendos with compelling content, conducting clear CTAs that compel action, and delivering personalized encores that echo long after the curtain falls. Fine-tune your approach with insights and turn every communication into a virtuoso piece that sets the stage for continuous, applause-worthy engagement. Your encore? Adopting these principles to ensure your B2B integrated marketing strategy performs like a headliner, leaving your audience in anticipation of your brand’s next big show.

Metrics – 5 of 16, The IMF Model Disassembled

Measure the success of marketing campaigns and show how well campaigns are tracking toward key performance indicators (KPIs). They are one of the most important elements of any campaign, and without them, you wouldn’t have a clear picture of whether their marketing strategy is a success.

Questions & Approaches to an Effective Marketing Strategy

While goals indicate what you want to achieve; a strategy is the plan to meet those goals.

This is where we map out several integral elements in one, concise document to act as a checks and balances against your communications activities. Reviewing your activities against this document will quickly identify if you are on strategy with your mix and tactics.

Keep conscious when you’re creating this

  • What will stand you apart from competitors?
  • What will capture attention?
  • What will cut through the market “noise?”
Icons depicting teamwork, brainstorming, and leadership float around the words, "Marketing Strategy."

Here are five distinct marketing strategies you can use to achieve your marketing goals

Awareness marketing

I want people to know who I am and what I do
In order to be noticed, this marketing strategy must be loud and clear
The marketing message is simple and straightforward
Large companies use this marketing strategy because it gets a lot of attention very quickly


Legitimacy marketing

  • This marketing strategy is about building a reputation. Its marketing message is about the value you add to people’s lives
  • This strategy usually involves many marketing tactics over a long period of time
  • Small businesses use this marketing strategy because it takes much longer for it to pay off, but when it does, your success will be felt throughout the market segment

Affinity marketing

  • I want people to see me as part of a community, to become part of a bigger whole
  • The marketing message is about being a member of the club
  • No one company owns it. Several companies may use this marketing strategy at any given time depending on how they approach their marketing activities

Relationship marketing

  • I want to build a strong relationship with my customers, offering them the best of me and my business
  • The marketing message is that we fit with each other
  • This marketing strategy is about deepening communications over time through multiple marketing activities and approaches

Target marketing

  • I want to focus on a specific market segment, a specific target audience
  • The marketing message is about having the same needs, wants and desires
  • This marketing strategy usually involves marketing tactics created for this purpose only
  • It can be very effective when you have a smaller marketing budget which would allow you to focus on a small number of marketing activities instead of trying to cover a lot of marketing ground

Depending on your marketing goals and budget, all the above strategies can be used at the same time. Your strategy should also be aligned to support your brand and what you want to achieve through marketing activities.

Book Progress

I figure it’s time for an update on my marketing book. It seems the writing process ebbs and flows with time availability, energy and the right mindset but I’m cranking right along. Currently at 68 pages (18,000-ish words). I’m really happy with how this is progressing.

Here’s a look at the current outline and working title:

A Practical Guide for Integrative Marketing Fusion

Foundations, strategies & tactics for marketers, growth drivers & change agents

  1. Introduction
  2. Marketing Defined
  3. Integrative Marketing Fusion
  4. Team Empowerment & Creativity Equals Growth
  5. Self-Care Equals Growth
  6. A Brand
    • Molding the Brand
    • A Brand Identified
    • Corporate vs Product Brand
    • Product Traits vs Brand Traits
    • Brand Checklist
    • Brand Brief Defined
    • Brand Attributes & Architecture
    • Brand Perception Survey
    • Brand Outline Example
  7. Building a Personal Brand
    • Evolve, Connect, Inspire – Evolution Guide Workbook
  8. Marketing Strategy
    • SWOT Analysis
    • Market Trends
    • Competitive Landscape
    • Target Audience & Creating Personas
    • Messaging Focus
    • Reviews & Workflow
    • Marketing Strategy Template
  9. Marketing Communications Program Management
    • Setting Goals
    • Tactics Must Support the Brand
    • Programs & Tactics
    • Learnings & Tips
    • Marketing Mix/Tactics Template
    • Public Relations Strategies for Success
    • Strategies for the Future
  10. Metrics
  11. Product Launches
  12. Product Launch Template
  13. Annual Planning
  14. Marketing Functions
  15. Resources & Tools
  16. IMF for Greater Value
    • Gaining Leadership Support
    • Tying it all Together
    • Leadership & IMF
    • PeaceWalker Project
    • WorldBlu
    • Ubuntu
  17. Connected & Aligned
  18. The Future of B2B Marketing
  19. Close
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Testimonials

Other elements to add in:

  • Experience Notes (Stories)
  • Content bits that need to find a home