Last Updated on April 9th, 2020

Ensure Your Company Is Targeting the Right Audiences, with the Right Content, at the Right Time

How often does this happen? You unsubscribe from a company’s newsletter or company emails, and STILL have emails from that same company popping into your inbox? Frustrating, right? That frustration is a direct result of a “dirty” CRM database—or a CRM that has redundant or incomplete data.

Find Your Unicorns and Share Them!

One of the fastest ways to drain company marketing resources, particularly in the B2B industrial manufacturing sector, is to chase after every lead, platform, and format in an effort to “strike gold” through diversification. Unfortunately, if and when you do stumble across the perfect combination, it’s highly unlikely any benefit will be worth all that discovery cost. What’s a company eager for an audience, then, to do? Tap into the powerful Pareto Principle, also called the 80:20 rule—a concept that indicates that 80% of results will come from 20% of efforts at any given time or setting.

Find Out What Your Competitors Are Up To …

If you’re in business today, you’ve probably at least heard of inbound marketing. You may have thought about looking into it. And if your current marketing efforts are doing the job—that’s great! The reality is that your life—both professionally and personally—has felt the impact of inbound marketing, whether you are consciously aware of it or not.

What You Need to Have in Place for Your Inbound Marketing Strategy to Be Successful

When a marketing agency begins working with a client to implement a marketing program, it will cover a long list of elements needed to ensure that company’s readiness to undertake inbound marketing strategies. There are four foundational items that need to be working properly to even begin.

Last Updated on April 9th, 2020

How to Optimize LinkedIn Features for Industrial Marketing

Now that you know what LinkedIn is and why having a company page on LinkedIn is important (and if you don’t—see this blog), it’s time to focus on how to use its features as part of an integrated industrial marketing strategy.

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. 

The B2B Brand Experience: Make it Personal and Practice Reciprocity

In today’s business environment, there is little to no distinction between a company and its brand. The two are so intertwined that a Weber Shandwick report found that “corporate reputation and brand reputation are now nearly indivisible.”

These 5 Components Will Optimize Your Website Redesign 

You know you need a new website, but you have no idea where to begin. Sound familiar? 

Traditional Marketing Spend Is an Expense

A print ad is a commodity that expires. It has a shelf life. That’s a concept we’ve come to understand in the internet age. Let’s frame it in this perspective: traditional marketing spend, according to HubSpot co-founder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah, is an expense. Inbound marketing, on the other hand, is an investment in assets.

This Open Book Process Gets Results 

Right now, American manufacturers are looking opportunity square in the face. The economy is strong. The new administration is encouraging companies to make things at home rather than overseas.