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MAY 22, 2026 · ATTENTION · 4 MIN READ

What Should B2B Marketers Do When No One Is Paying Attention?

B2B buyers are harder to reach. Here is how marketers can earn attention with sharper positioning, useful ideas, and better distribution.

Mark Evans, Principal at Marketing Spark
Mark EvansPrincipal, Marketing Spark

The market is not ignoring you because buyers are lazy. It's ignoring you because most B2B marketing sounds the same.

Attention is not a channel problem.

Most B2B teams blame the algorithm, the inbox, the trade show, or the buyer. Sometimes those things are part of it. More often, the message is too familiar to notice.

Buyers ignore claims they have seen a hundred times. They notice tension, clarity, proof, and useful ideas.

Say something specific

Specificity is the cheapest attention strategy. Name the buyer. Name the pain. Name the tradeoff. Name the mistake. The more specific the message, the easier it's for the right buyer to recognize themselves.

Stop hiding the point of view

A point of view gives buyers something to agree with, disagree with, or remember. Without it, your content becomes a nicer version of the same thing everyone else is publishing.

Use content in sales

If a piece of content can't help a sales conversation, ask why it exists. The best B2B content gives sales a reason to follow up, reopen a stalled deal, or explain the problem in a way the buyer has not heard before.

That's how attention turns into pipeline. Not by publishing more, but by publishing something worth using.

Mark Evans, Principal at Marketing Spark

Mark Evans

Principal at Marketing Spark

Fourteen years working with B2B companies on positioning, messaging, and go-to-market. Host of the Marketing Spark Podcast. Based in Toronto.

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