Strategies to Drive Awareness, Foster Trust, and Increase Sales

Building a strong, recognizable brand is essential for attracting and retaining B2B customers. Traditional marketing methods like trade shows, direct mail, and cold calls are still relevant, but content marketing has become a critical strategy for manufacturers looking to differentiate themselves in a crowded market.

Discover how AI-enabled chatbots are transforming the sales process for B2B manufacturers and revolutionizing the industry.

Insights That Will Shape Marketing Strategies in the Coming Year

To keep up with the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, marketing experts must employ inventive methods to build brand awareness and loyalty, to reach new audiences, and to keep them engaged.

Why an Inbound Marketing Agency Is a Cost-Effective Option for Small Businesses

Inbound marketing is a powerful strategy for B2B manufacturing companies looking to attract and engage potential customers. Unlike traditional outbound marketing tactics, such as cold calling and direct mail, inbound marketing focuses on creating valuable content that draws potential customers to your website and social media channels.

Lead Generation Software Improves Efficiency and the Bottom Line

Lead generation is the key to success for any B2B company because it is the first step in building a sales pipeline. Once a business has identified and targeted ideal customers, the process of qualifying and nurturing those B2B leads and converting them into customers can begin.

Nine Ways to Encourage Call-to-Action Clicks

Inbound marketing is a customer-centric approach that focuses on providing prospects with valuable content that they need and want, rather than interrupting them with irrelevant and annoying ads. By creating content that is informative, educational, and entertaining, you can establish your business as a thought leader and trusted advisor in your industry. This, in turn, can help you attract morevisitors to your website who are genuinely interested in what you have to offer. By providing these visitors with personalized experiences that are tailored to their specific needs and preferences, you can increase the chances that they will convert into leads and eventually customers. Ultimately, inbound marketing is all about building relationships, earning trust, and delivering value at every stage of the buyer's journey. So if you want to succeed in today's competitive B2B landscape, it's essential to embrace inbound marketing and make it a core part of your lead generation strategy.

HubSpot’s All-in-One CRM Solution Improves Productivity

There is no shortage of software tools and systems to support a company’s marketing efforts. In fact, research by HubSpot shows 88% of marketers are using up to 10 different CRM tools to connect with current and prospective customers. With all those resources in place, B2B companies should find it easy to grow their business, right? Wrong.

What You Can Do About the Current Impacts on Your Business and Budget

Let’s start by stating the obvious: life now looks nothing like it did two months ago. And two months from now … who knows? Every piece of our existence feels the impact—our lifestyle, our business, and our ability to adjust to change. In addition to learning the ins and outs of Zoom conferencing, setting up home offices, being a parent/teacher/spouse/employee/regular-everyday-human simultaneously, and adjusting to a possible long-term change in our way of life, the situation has also brought to light how able we are to adjust our strategies in order to stay afloat during a time where it’s very difficult to maintain “business as usual.”

Rethinking Business Models for Manufacturers

The current pandemic is a massive disruptor for the world economy, as we all know. For the manufacturing industry, it looks something like this: factory closures, supply chain disruptions, reduced production capacities, and remote work, among many other things are significantly impacting businesses in manufacturing. Let alone companies struggling with illness—and even death—among their workforce. (Of which, we offer our warmest thoughts.) While the world will eventually return to face-to-face interactions and normal shipping and production schedules, the habits that are being formed now will set a new baseline for our behaviors and expectations as consumers and professionals.

Measure, Analyze, Update! 

In 2018, companies spent an average of 11.2% of company revenues on marketing.[i] It is anticipated that global media spending will reach $2.1 trillion in 2019, up from $1.6 trillion in 2014.[ii] Companies rely upon marketing to transform interest into profitable transactions, and ideally, long-term customer relationships.