Ways to expand awareness
There are six main ways to create touchpoints with target accounts. Choose the methods that match where your current customers gather information and the messages you want to deliver.- Be found in search engines: Deliver your pages and articles to decision-makers searching for business problems and solutions.
- Be cited by AI search: Make sure AI recommends and cites your company accurately when asked about solutions and purchase candidates.
- Share expertise on social media: Continuously publish expertise, research, case studies, and product information.
- Reach priority accounts with targeted advertising: Target the relevant industries, roles, regions, and campaign periods with content that explains the problem and your solution.
- Build trust through media: Communicate expertise and customer results through third-party coverage, contributed articles, and interviews.
- Educate and engage buyers through events: Use trade shows, webinars, and speaking engagements to explain complex problems and learn what buyers need.
Define the audience, message, and next action
Before you start publishing, decide who you’re targeting, in what situations, and what you want them to remember.
For example, even for the same enterprise system, end users care about time savings, implementation leads care about integration with existing systems, and executives care about ROI. Don’t try to communicate everything in one message; tailor explanations to the touchpoint and the decision-maker’s interests. However, keep your company name, product/service name, target problem, and core value consistent.
Also check which industries, departments, and problems competitors are targeting and what value they communicate. Use competitor analysis not to copy their messaging, but to distinguish what target accounts are already seeing versus evidence your company uniquely provides.
Research competitors
Regularly review competitors’ content, traffic, and product or service updates, then use relevant findings to improve your publishing and website.
Be found in search engines
For decision-makers already researching business problems and solutions, use to deliver information. Prepare pages that answer searches not only for product names but also for problems, methods, product categories, comparisons, case studies, and how to choose. The process to expand awareness via search is:- Research search terms used by decision-makers at target accounts
- Create articles and pages that match the problem and evaluation stage
- Configure your website so search engines can discover and index pages
- Monitor search result impressions, clicks, and subsequent pages viewed
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Select keywords that match target-company searches, create and publish the content needed for evaluation, and continuously improve it.
Be cited by AI search
Use when buyers ask AI systems to explain solutions or recommend vendors. These questions often go beyond product categories to ask whether a solution fits a particular industry, integrates with existing systems, or meets specific implementation requirements. To expand awareness via AI search, improve through this process:- Investigate which questions target accounts ask and how your company and competitors appear
- Verify whether your descriptions are accurate and which pages are being cited
- Organize official information about the company, products/services, target industries, use cases, pricing, and case studies
- Repeatedly measure changes in mentions and citations using the same questions
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Share expertise on social media
For decision-makers who aren’t actively looking for products or services yet, consistently deliver useful work-related information on social media. For B2B, it’s important not only to get immediate inquiries after a post but also to prompt later actions like company-name searches or sharing with colleagues. Use the following types of content your company can provide as publishing themes:- Perspectives on industry and operational changes
- Original research and insights derived from results
- Frequently asked questions from customers
- Problems before implementation and changes after implementation
- Product/service updates and their impact on users
- Key points from articles, webinars, and speaking engagements
Expand awareness and trust on social media
Define your publishing policy and plan, create and publish posts, and continuously improve.
Reach priority accounts with targeted advertising
Use advertising when you want to quickly deliver information to specific industries, roles, or regions for a short period. In addition to directing ads to immediate contact forms, you can guide audiences to research reports, case studies, webinars, or industry/use-case pages to prompt deeper investigation. When preparing ads, align target accounts, decision-makers’ problems, the initial value you communicate, supporting evidence, and the landing destination after clicking the ad. When reviewing competitor ads, check messaging, , and creative formats to find value propositions your company hasn’t communicated yet. NoimosAI can analyze competitors’ public ad messaging and creatives and map differences against your website. While it can draft ad copy and images, adjust materials to match your target accounts, actual products/services, and verifiable evidence.Build trust through media
If you want to communicate expertise and customer results along with third-party endorsement, pursue placements and appearances in industry media, trade publications, news sites, and podcasts. Don’t choose outlets solely by name recognition—verify whether your target-company decision-makers use them for information gathering and whether the outlet’s themes match your proposed topics and recent articles. NoimosAI can research media outlets and programs relevant to your industry and announcement, then compare candidates by audience, editorial focus, and recent coverage. It can also draft press releases, contributed articles, interview pitches, and anticipated questions and answers. After placement, track not only the number of placements but also company-name searches, website visits, traffic to related articles, and acquired links.Educate and engage buyers through events
When you need to explain complex problems or products/services in detail, use trade shows, industry events, webinars, and seminars. Events have the advantage of letting you capture not only attendee counts but also the companies represented, themes that attracted interest, and follow-up questions. NoimosAI can research events appropriate for your target industries and roles, draft speaking topics and proposals, produce webinar structures, and create announcement pages and social posts. If Google Calendar is connected, you can register candidate events and preparation schedules. After events, guide attendees to related articles, case studies, materials, and future events. When inviting consultations or demos, clearly state what can be confirmed during the meeting.Measure awareness outcomes
Don’t judge awareness activities solely by impressions; confirm actions that indicate target accounts are researching you in more detail. Because metrics mean different things for each method, don’t aggregate everything into a single metric—view metrics in the order of contact, interest, and start of evaluation.
In Google Analytics, check traffic sources, the first page viewed, and subsequent views of case studies and product pages. In Google Search Console, separate company-name and product-name searches from problem-related searches.
If reach is growing but interest is not, revisit the audience definition and value proposition. If website visits are rising but buyers do not view evaluation content, add clearer links from the entry article or post to the most relevant case study, product page, or event.