Brand awareness is one of the most important aspects of running your business and B2B brand awareness can be a real challenge, especially when you consider that most of the existing literature about branding focuses on B2C marketing. Here’s what you need to know to take your industrial business’s brand to the next level. How… Read more »
Why is marketing for manufacturers so undervalued — and what can industrial marketers do about it? According to the 2018 CMO survey, a survey that assimilated information from almost 3,000 marketing executives in various industries throughout the U.S., marketing spending across all industries averages 11 percent of total company budgets. This average accounts for 6.9… Read more »
When you finally land that sale on your wholesale e-commerce site but never see the retailer again, it is quite frustrating. And, when it keeps happening, it greatly impacts your bottom line. This isn’t something any wholesaler wants. What you want is to retain your accounts and continually add new ones. To find and acquire… Read more »
As with all good marketing, an effective email marketing strategy boils down to knowing your audience. With industrial marketing, you’re often talking to engineers, who play a vital role in any purchasing decision pertaining to technical products or services. To better understand this critical audience — and how to create an effective email marketing strategy… Read more »
Unfortunately, many of today’s industrial business leaders can’t provide a satisfactory answer to the question “What is industrial marketing?” since they suffer from a lack of understanding of what industrial marketing is and what it can do to help them be competitive and grow their businesses. For leading industrial brands, however, marketing has become virtually… Read more »
In my 10-plus years of developing websites, there has been a lot of confusion — and thus education — about the differences between a domain name vs. hosting. All business owners need to understand this distinction because knowing the difference between a domain name vs. hosting is crucial for your business. Not knowing could lead to website downtime… Read more »
There are many different approaches to product and brand promotion on e-commerce sites. A good e-commerce marketing campaign that can yield substantial visibility for both products and brands that is easy to implement is an onsite banner campaign. An e-commerce marketing campaign of this sort entails placing a digital banner on your website to bring attention… Read more »
Content is an important tool to help engineers and industrial professionals make informed, educated decisions at all stages of the buying process. Research indicates that the average buying cycle is 12 weeks long, with the typical engineer involved in four projects per year. This means that purchasers and influencers are continuously conducting research and needs… Read more »
