Rafael Encarnacion is a digital marketing manager who specializes in content strategy, information architecture, search engine optimization, and standing over graphic designers' workstations (they love when you do that).
Industrial clients often ask us, “Is a responsive website worth the extra development cost?” We remind them their website isn’t just for them, it’s for their customers — and customers often start the buying process on tablets or smartphones. Note: If you’re unfamiliar with responsive web design and how it works, please check out Don’t… Read more »
Italian gun manufacturer Beretta recently announced plans to open a $45 million manufacturing plant in Middle Tennessee. This development will bring 300 new manufacturing jobs to the area — a major success for Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s workforce development efforts. Beretta isn’t the only one hiring. A recent survey from Boston Consulting Group revealed that… Read more »
We’ve all seen them — websites that cram too much information onto one page without providing a clear hierarchy or structure. When doing UX (user experience) design, you have to make it easy for your audience to find information or they’ll go elsewhere. Your job as an industrial marketer is to organize information in a way… Read more »
As industrial marketers, we often rely on formal language to communicate with our technical audiences. Years of writing white papers and detailed case studies have taught us to avoid colloquialisms, always write in the third person, and never start a sentence with “but.” But is that how we should always write? We default to formal… Read more »
If you’re anything like me, you work for clients that have multiple Ph.Ds in obscure technical fields such as encapsulated radioactive isotopes or nonwoven geotextiles. Part of our job as content marketers is condensing our client’s expertise into marketable web copy, sell sheets, brochures, videos, etc. Unfortunately, many technical clients are far too busy with… Read more »
