Grant Marketing Blog

How to Capture the Attention of Engineers 

Engineers are an important target audience for marketers. Understanding the needs of technical buyers—how and where they get the information they need to make work-related decisions—can help you decide where to invest marketing resources for optimal results. 

Define Your Target Market to Ensure Marketing Success

Many companies dive headfirst into paid advertising and content marketing without putting real effort into figuring out exactly who their buyers or customers are. To create an effective marketing plan, you first must understand exactly who your target audience is—allowing you to create targeted initiatives that maximize your advertising ROI and content effectiveness. Knowing who they are gives you targeted insight into how to reach them: speak their language, address their pain points, answer their needs. To interpret core customer groups, it has become a common practice for businesses to create buyer personas. Not sure what a buyer persona is? Then read on to learn how to build buyer personas for your industrial company and why they are important to your business.

Actionable Metrics on How to Improve Your Website’s Efficiency

Your website is the digital front door to your business. And with travel still at a minimum, it’s essentially the only way in these days for customers and prospects. It’s your hardest working asset. And like any resource, you want to know that your website is doing its job. But how can you know for sure? If only there were a tool available that could evaluate its efficacy. There is! It’s a website grader (created by HubSpot), and it’s a fantastic tool that you can use right from our website.

Implementing Industrial Marketing on the World’s Only Professional Platform—LinkedIn

LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to help them be more productive and successful. According to LinkedIn’s company page, the site now boasts over 810 million registered members in more than 200 countries and territories and 58 million company pages—collectively delivering nine billion content impressions per week in its newsfeed. The breakneck speed at which it continues to grow further solidifies LinkedIn’s reputation as the world’s largest professional social networking site.

Emphasize Employee Awareness of Your Brand

Brand Development encompasses a complex and multi-tiered approach to showing the world who you are. It defines what your business stands for and explains how your products get delivered to and are experienced by customers. It also involves the “why” behind your customers’ purchasing decisions. More importantly, brand development backed by brand strategy helps you differentiate yourself from your competitors, which creates recognizable brand loyalty in customers’ lives. In industrial branding, it is important to keep your customers in mind. But, it is also crucial to get your employees involved.

The Look of Manufacturing in America
Even if you have a sales force, marketing manager, social media expert, or an event coordinator, they all need collateral to help sell your product or services. Your investment in machinery, technology, and expertise deserves the best visual representation through professional industrial photography. As well, you’ve spent all that money to be the best in your industry—people should see it in all its glory.

Content Marketing Strategy 

While the pandemic had a devastating effect on in-person selling and face-to-face events over the past two years, one upside was that manufacturing companies rediscovered the powerful impact of content marketing.

Retain Customers and Keep them Happy

Customer retention is one of the major concerns of manufacturing companies. Your brand has one job: deliver its brand promise. You want your customers to value your brand and be loyal to it. Recent studies demonstrate the importance of brand loyalty, and because of the value of brand loyalty, many consumer-based companies create brand loyalty programs for their valued customers. Makes sense. Why is it, then, that B2B companies don’t generally have loyalty programs for their customers? It’s an opportunity often overlooked by B2B companies.                                                                                                                                         

Customer and Data Driven Directives in the Driver’s Seat 

In a recent blog, we identified digital transformation as one of the key marketing trends of 2022. Consumer behaviors have shifted over the past two years, ushering in a time of unprecedented change, calling for businesses to redefine how they digitally connect with customers and business buyers. As expected, the digital transformation is very much driven by data: how to collect it, how to interpret it, how to apply it, how to protect it, and how quickly this can be done in a rapidly changing landscape.

5 Key Brand Strategy Components for Manufacturers 

Coca-Cola’s signature red. Flo from Progressive Insurance. Apple’s glowing apple. Iconic colors, memorable characters, and compelling images are the “special sauce” behind some of the most successful and recognizable companies’ brands. These elements are so well established, you don’t even need to see the company’s name to tell you what product is being marketed! Branding is more than a logo, color or icon. It is a necessary—and valuable—component of your business strategy.