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Social media posts are an essential part of any industrial marketing strategy for manufacturers. You read that right. Yes, social media is an intrinsically viable channel for you to get new customers and retain customer loyalty. Not only do these posts connect your business with the appropriate audience, but they also attract visitors to your website and can eventually turn strangers into customers and customers who align with your brand identity into evangelists for your products.

Responsiveness, Quality, and Speed Feed the Spiderbots!

Many industrial marketers still depend on SEO and PPC (pay per click) as the core of their industrial marketing strategy. Their goal is to outperform their competitors by outranking them with specific keywords and keyword phrases. While there is a larger framework for SEO-related concerns like blogging, backlinking, and updating title tags and meta descriptions, which are still important markers for spiderbots to locate web pages, the latest trends focus on mobile-friendly websites, content depth and quality (the spiderbots focus on “contextual search” algorithms), and website speed.

A New Address—Same Effective B2B Marketing Strategies!

All good things must … grow! So we can remain flexible in our workspace as we move forward, Grant Marketing is moving our office location. Still in beautiful Back Bay, Boston, we now can be found in our new offices at 75 Arlington Street, Suite 500. Our contact info, including the phone numbers, remains the same. Grant Marketing’s main phone number is (857) 453-6744.

Google’s Coming to Get You!

Mobilegeddon is upon us … and you’re still here! Congratulations! But will you be in a year? While this asteroid may have already hit, it’s possible that its after-effects will not be felt immediately. You may think that you are doing all you need to do with your B2B marketing strategies, but we want you to know—that may not be so. As we talked about in our most recent blog post, the Google mobile algorithm is already at work crawling the web in real-time, and the ranking results may take time to show tangible drops, or rises, in SEO ranking. But this does not mean you have time to spare.

Millennials on the Move with Mobile Devices

If your B2B marketing strategy does not include video and mobile marketing, you may be missing out on reaching a key buying influence: Millennials. According to a recent study fielded by Millward Brown, “Changing Face of B-to-B Marketing,” 46% of B2B purchase decision-makers were Millennials, up from 27% in 2012.

Be Marketing Agency SMART About it!

As a B2B marketing agency and certified inbound marketing consultant, we see that companies that plan a robust B2B marketing strategy are more likely to reach their goals. Whether you have short-term or long-term goals, sales and marketing planning can help you manage the process. You need to clearly describe your goals, set a deadline for meeting them, and understand the desired end result. This can all be accomplished by focusing on SMART, a methodology that helps you make, well, “smart” goals!