There’s a reason why talk about marketing and sales team alignment is top-of-mind for many businesses these days. It’s the basis of so many important and emergent marketing and sales trends: the move from lead gen to demand gen, the shift to rev ops from siloed ops, selling to a committee vs. an individual with account-based marketing (ABM), and making a move towards asynchronous selling.

Listing Tips for Industrial Companies 

Online business directories play an important role in the marketing strategy of industrial companies. They increase your company’s visibility by providing key information to the prospective customers who are searching for your type of industrial products. But which directories are the most appropriate for your business and will drive the most traffic to your website?

Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Content Strategy

Marketing content is definitely not one size fits all. Each type of customer represents a different audience with unique interests. For example, an engineer is looking for different information than a CEO, and a CEO may not be interested in the same content as a buyer.An effective content strategy addresses the precise needs of each of your business audiences with customized information. Read on for a complete guide to creating content for your specific audiences.

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.