Why you aren’t really a B2B business

Published 27th August 2019
in Thoughts on writing

This is the introduction to an article I first published on Medium.

The first question I ask subscribers to my 5 copywriting principles you need to know email series is simple. Who is your target market? For many B2B business people, the answer comes quickly and easily. It’s SMEs. It’s manufacturers. It’s accountants. It’s schools.

I think those answers are wrong. If you’re a B2B business your product or service might well be bought by SMEs, manufacturers or schools. But the decision to purchase your product or service wasn’t made by a business. It was made by a person working in that business.

Read the rest of this article on Medium.

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Catherine Every

Catherine Every is a writer and a writing skills trainer. She helps healthcare and public sector organisations as well as tech and professional services businesses to create better written communications. You can read the full story here.

Catherine Every, copywriter and writing skills trainer

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