Is account based marketing a way out of how uncomfortable lead generation has become? Let’s face it: We all know when we are being marked as a lead. It starts with a scenario where we are asked to provide our name, email, and perhaps another piece of information in order to read a white paper,… Read more »
SEO, or search engine optimization, is critical for any business that wishes to increase organic website traffic and drive B2B leads. The better visibility of your pages in search results, the more likely you are to attract future and existing customers. This holds particularly true for organic B2B searches where the potential customer is looking… Read more »
One way to think of content marketing is equipping your prospects with the right information about your products during the right time in their buying journey. You can think of sales collateral in a parallel universe — equipping your sales team with sales content and materials they can use to enrich a prospect’s experience with your… Read more »
Great customer service is important whether you’re running a B2C or a B2B company. However, just like there is a difference between industrial marketing and consumer marketing, how you deliver customer service significantly varies when you are talking about B2B customer service vs. B2C customer service. B2C companies offer products and services directly to consumers,… Read more »
The growing segmentation of digital media consumption makes it more important for manufacturers to be able to define marketing metrics that matter by cross-tracking data points in order to gain actionable insights into their marketing initiatives. Data can be overwhelming, and marketing technology is collecting more data than ever. In the latest episode of the… Read more »
Manufacturing is a competitive industry. There are more than 500,000 manufacturing businesses in the U.S. alone, which means an ocean of potential competitors. As it becomes increasingly challenging to stand out, manufacturing marketing has become essential. Online advertising provides plenty of opportunities to distinguish yourself from competitors, as its lower cost of marketing enables more… Read more »
Many industrial distributors are dealing with the reality that digital is becoming the dominant sales channel. So while the core distribution functions of product selection, availability and delivery have not changed, how customers vet their distributors has. In the latest episode of the Industrial Marketer podcast, co-hosts Joey and Nels discuss how an industrial distributor… Read more »
Why is it that more B2B companies don’t publish content that converts readers into buyers? According to Marketing Charts, content is one of the most important things in the B2B marketers arsenal — per their analysis, 52% of B2B customers claim that they are “definitely” more likely to buy from a brand after reading their… Read more »
