Strengthen Your Brand and Inbound Marketing Strategies
Navigating industrial sales and marketing is very different from other sectors where consumers are often swayed by clever ad campaigns that appeal to their emotions. Statistics support the reality that today’s astute industrial buyers have done their research and are knowledgeable about the solution you are offering, long before you identify them as a prospect.
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Topics:
Industrial Marketing Strategy,
Inbound Marketing Strategy,
B2B Branding,
Marketing for Manufacturers,
Inbound Marketing Assessment,
rebrand
Why Your Sales Team Needs to Be Your Most Authentic Brand Advocate
Are your sales and marketing functions copacetic? Or are they more like two ships that, if you’re lucky, pass in the night? Aligning your company’s marketing and business development functions:
- Unifies your team
- Builds strategic cohesion
- Keeps the sales pipeline flowing
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Topics:
Branding,
Industrial Branding,
Brand Loyalty,
Brand strategist,
Brand Strategy,
B2B Branding,
rebrand
Successful Government Program Designed to Help Manufacturers Improve Revenue Generation
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has once again appropriated funds for New England Business Association’s Manufacturing Matching Grant Program. The program seeks to provide targeted matching grants to Massachusetts-based manufacturing companies seeking to undergo a business transition and enhance the company’s bottom line.
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Topics:
Industrial Manufacturing Companies,
brand development strategy,
Marketing for Manufacturers
Preserving the Brand Perception and Preparing for the Transition
We’ve been talking a lot about branding lately, especially as it relates to family-owned industrial manufacturing businesses. Multi-generational companies, built over decades, possess brands that are the result of thoughtful planning—or by default, simply a reflection of their founders’ personalities.
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Topics:
brand development strategy,
Brand Consultant,
Brand strategist,
Brand Strategy,
B2B Branding,
rebrand,
family business,
employee-owned
The Significant Influence of Employee-Owned Certifications
This important article on employee-owned companies and how a brand influences behavior is written by John Case, originally posted on his website, Employee-Owned America, and we are sharing it here with his permission.
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Topics:
Branding,
brand development,
B2B Branding,
employee-owned
Branding the Past for the Future—A Family Affair
Does your company have a distinct brand, based upon a thoughtful brand development process? Or is your company’s brand more of an extension of the founder’s personality?
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Topics:
Industrial Branding,
brand development strategy,
Brand Strategy,
B2B Branding,
rebrand,
family business
But … Do Your Employees “Get” Your Brand?
Are your employees killing your company brand?
“Great company—possibly one of the best to work for.”
“You learn to appreciate good companies because almost all companies are better to work for than this one.”
Which one of these sounds most like what your employees might say? Or perhaps somewhere in-between? These quotes, from online employee reviews, illustrate how important employee perceptions are in shaping external perceptions of a company’s brand.
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Topics:
brand development strategy,
Brand Loyalty,
Brand Ambassador,
Brand Strategy
General Data Protection Regulation Goes into Effect on May 25
You’d better get ready! Wait … for what?
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new EU Regulation which will replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive (DPD) that will significantly enhance the protection of the personal data of EU citizens and increase the obligations of organizations—including those in the U.S.—who collect or process personal data.
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Topics:
GDPR,
General Data Protection Regulation
Yes, You’re Busy—but You Have Lots of Low-Hanging Fruit to Share!
News, updates, and new product releases are just a few of the topics that manufacturing companies can promote through a running “blog” of current information. Blog, you say? Too busy taking care of business on the production floor to even consider writing technical intel info or pithy subjects on the latest industry buzz? We get it. While we strongly recommend you get a full-fledged content program underway, we also want to let you know there are some things you can do in lieu of that. Here’s where the “news blog” comes in.
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Topics:
Industrial Marketing,
Industrial Manufacturing Companies,
Industrial Manufacturers,
Content Marketing Strategy,
Inbound Marketing Strategy,
Inbound Marketing Consultant,
News
Where Does Your Industrial Manufacturing Company Stand Among Peers?
Much like 2013's infamous “cronut”—the decidedly un-irresistible croissant/donut hybrid—marketing trends can go stale nearly as fast as they're “baked.” Unlike the unfortunately-named cronuts, however, content marketing remains a cornerstone of successful campaigns for businesses in 2018, no matter what industry they operate in.
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Topics:
Content Marketing Strategy,
Content Marketing Plan,
DIY Inbound Marketing Assessment,
Inbound Marketing Assessment