Top 6 Reasons for Manufacturers to Outsource Their B2B Marketing Efforts  

 As a manufacturing company in an increasingly competitive B2B environment, you know how difficult it is to stand out. Marketing is a sure-fire way to spread the word about your business and its unique selling proposition. You could either entrust your marketing activities to an in-house team of marketers or hire a marketing agency to take care of your marketing needs. However, if you’re concerned about the up-front costs of a marketing agency, here are 6 reasons why this is money well spent—and also, why you might not spend more after all.

The Manufacturer-Marketer Partnership Requires Work: Set Expectations so it Will Work Well

As a manufacturer, your B2B marketing agency is probably your first line of defense in the competition of the open market, but a mismatch in goals or motivations could short-circuit your future success. At Grant Marketing, we know how important it is for you to fortify the presence of your product or service on the market for continual growth and profit. 

Wake Up to the New Way to Build a Peak Performing Website with Growth-Driven Design

What’s the worst thing about having to install a software update—the restart, right? As if the death of all your 128 open tabs wasn’t bad enough, you have to wait until your device turns back on! We have become so accustomed to putting our devices to sleep—be it mobile phones or computers—that we no longer have the patience to wait for a reboot. 

Website redesign is no different from that update notification you keep avoiding for as long as possible.

Increase Your ROI by Switching to GDD

If you are a business owner, you are most likely to agree that the polar vortex isn’t the only thing sending chills down your spine—a one-time web design cost is capable of achieving the same effect!

What’s the alternative, you ask? We’d be lying if we said there’s a way to spend less on web design, but what if there’s a hack that spreads out the cost over a period of time AND increases return on investment? It could be in the form of higher traffic, more leads, or even a higher closing rate, depending on your goals.

GDD Is the Game-Changing Redesign of the Web Design Model 

Traditional web design is to website performance what cold calling is to marketing: inefficient, unprofitable, and time consuming. So, when you walk into a web design or marketing agency looking to give your B2B website a makeover or complete redesign and you do not hear the term growth-driven design—be afraid, very afraid!

Move Over 2016, New B2B Content Marketing Trends for 2017 Are Here!

As the significance of content marketing continues to grow in the B2B industry, marketers have loosened their purse strings to make more room for it in their budget for the new fiscal year. A report released by PulsePoint and Digiday found that by 2017, content marketing and native ad budgets will grow 59 percent and 46 percent respectively; potentially outpacing search and social budgets.

An Efficient, Effective, Affordable, and User-Focused Web Strategy to Complement Your B2B Inbound Marketing Efforts

The purpose of a website has transformed drastically over time—what was once considered optional, high-tech, and even fancy, is now indispensable to even B2B industrial manufacturers. And, so is the need to constantly update it.

Basic web redesign is just not efficient enough to keep up with the dynamics of the marketplace, changing customer expectations, and advancements in technology.

Do You Have the Right Tools to Catch 'Em All? We're Talking Inbound Leads, not Pokémon!

Inbound marketing relies heavily on content creation to attract target audiences. However, attracting is just the first step of the process. To be able to transition from attracting to converting, and then from closing to delighting, you will need much more than just content.

Measuring What Matters for Inbound Marketing Metrics

In today’s data driven world, metrics rule the outcome of any marketing strategy, but focus too narrowly on numbers and you might just end up losing perspective.

Metrics don’t always mean success, which is why you need to measure what matters. If you are looking to reap a sound ROI on your content marketing strategy, it is imperative that the associated results are closely aligned with your goals.

5 Simple Steps to Take Your Brand Development Process to the Next Level

Branding is native to a company's marketing department, but the brand development process doesn't and shouldn't end there. It isn't the product or the pricing that truly sets your company apart from your competitor's, it's the branding. And, who speaks for what the company stands for better than its own employees? Branding is the reason one chooses Trader Joe's over any other grocery store or a Starbucks' latte instead of another brand's coffee, even though that same beverage is most likely available elsewhere (anywhere!) at a cheaper price.