Author: Joey Strawn




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Tools of the Trade: Email Marketing

With such great ROI, every industrial needs email marketing. Choose your tool.

“What’s important is that you have faith in people . . . and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” — Steve Jobs If you work in the industrial sector (and even if you don’t), you know how important it is to equip the right people with the right tools to… Read more »

Industrial Digital Marketing Roundup

The latest trends that could affect your digital marketing program.

Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with what’s going on in the world of digital marketing. It gets even more difficult when you try to focus on multiple channels within multiple industries, such as industrial B2B (business-2-business). Well, luckily for you, I just happen to keep my finger on the pulse of those issues so… Read more »

Marketing Automation Platforms Compared

A fair comparison of some of the big brands in marketing automation.

Editor’s Note: It was brought to our attention that the original version of this post contained inaccuracies about certain platforms. Those inaccuracies have been corrected and discussed with platform representatives. The article now contains the most updated information provided to the writer. Marketing automation is a category of software that streamlines, automates, and measures marketing tasks… Read more »

Industrial Digital Marketing Roundup

The latest trends that could affect your digital marketing program.

Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with what is going on in the world of digital marketing. It gets even more difficult when you try to focus on multiple channels within multiple industries such as industrial B2B (business-2-business). Well, luckily for you, I just happen to keep my finger on the pulse of those issues… Read more »

Why Your Customers Don’t Trust You

Use these tips to gain customer trust and improve your bottom line.

Do you trust me? Better yet, do your customers trust you? Even more importantly do you know the elements important for building customer trust? Trust is an issue approached and researched every year in the Edelman Trust Barometer and it’s one report that never goes unread in this office. To truly understand how to communicate with people and… Read more »

Coffee, Soda, and the Maguire Manifesto

Take a cue from Jerry Maguire and start owning your brand stories.

Do you remember the scene in Jerry Maguire when he has his epiphany and wrote his “Mission Statement” for the future of his business and owning his industry’s brand stories? I would hope you do because it pretty much starts the movie and sets the entire story in motion, but just in case you’ve forgotten, here’s… Read more »

The Merger of Google Places and Google+ Business Pages

Everything you need to know about Google's merger of Places pages with Google+ Local.

Google has a reputation for rolling out far-reaching changes at a moment’s notice. Today, it was announced that Google is merging its Google Places pages with their new Google+ Local initiative. While this move adds benefits and options for consumers and G+ users, it creates a lot of new potential challenges for Google Places Page and Google+ Business Page administrators.