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September 24

13 Must-Know Marketing KPIs for Manufacturers

Imagine how frustrating it would be to run a business if you never checked your KPIs. Imagine how difficult it would be if you didn't even know what your KPIs were. Talk about shots in the dark. So why would it be any different for your marketing success? Much like you want to limit your reject ratio and optimize your take time, you must have a go-to set of KPIs to monitor and optimize your marketing. The following KPIs are broken down by stages of the inbound marketing funnel.

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September 10

Email Marketing Automation With MailChimp

If you haven't heard of marketing automation, you probably don't actively market your business. Marketing automation typically consists of software and technologies that allow marketers to automate repetitive tasks through a variety of channels such as social media, websites, and email. Many marketers opt to use MailChimp for their marketing efforts, and rightfully so! MailChimp offers great tools including list and audience management, social media integration, data driven insights, and marketing automation. The last of which will be the tool we're focusing on today.

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June 10

Preparing & Running Your 1st Inbound Marketing Meeting

Do you have an internal marketing team? How about an internal sales and marketing team? Is your "team" or "committee" 1 person?

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September 26

How Manufacturers Can Generate Referrals Through Customer Delight

Hey Sales & Marketing Professionals! We all know that a referral is one of the easiest sales to make, because we have a strong recommendation from someone the prospect trusts, giving us implied trust. But for some reason as sales and marketing professionals, our focus is always NET NEW business. Luckily, there’s a way to turn more of our prospects and customers into promoters with the Delight Stage of your Online Marketing Plan. In this video, we’ll take a look at your online marketing plan’s impact on producing delight for prospects, and talk about 4 key components that will ensure your customers tell their friends all about you.

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September 26

Close More Website Leads Into Customers - Part 7

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! We all want more leads through our website, but ultimately, we want those leads to be customers. According to HubSpot, lead nurturing can produce 50% more sales-ready leads, at 33% lower cost! That sounds to me like a winning strategy! In this video, we’ll layout how lead nurturing fits into your online marketing plan, and even show some examples.

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September 19

How Manufacturers can Convert Website Visitors Into Leads - [VIDEO]

Hey Sales & Marketing Professionals! I bet you’d like more website traffic, but I bet you’d LOVE more leads from your website. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that an effective online marketing plan should focus on both. In this post, I’m going to pick up where we left off after the Attract stage of your online marketing plan, and show you how to CONVERT more of your website visitors into leads, how the tactics work, what tools you’ll need, and a recommended schedule of events in your plan.

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September 13

Monthly Plan to Attract Visitors to Your Manufacturing Website - Pt. 5

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! I’m sure you can agree that driving more quality visitors to your website is important, but it can also be very difficult when you’re starting with very low numbers, and you don’t want to rely on pay-per-click advertising. But what if I told you that by strategically beefing up the Attract stage of your Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers, you can drive more quality visitors to your website? In this post, I’m going to show you how pillar content, your blog, SEO, social media, and PPC can work in unison to attract visitors to your manufacturing website.

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August 29

Applying the Buyer's Journey - Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! What does your ideal buyer's buying process look like? Well, if you think that it starts when they land on your website and submit an RFQ, you have to watch this video. Today, we're talking about the buyer's journey in Part 4 of your Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers.

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August 22

Building a Buyer Persona - Online Marketing Plan for Manufacturers

Hey Sales and Marketing Professionals! This is part 3 of our online marketing plan for manufacturers (Parts 1, 2). Today we're going to dive into Building a Buyer Persona. We're going to put together a plan to understand our best buyer, and apply it to all of our marketing.

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August 17

How to Set SMART Goals with Key Metrics (Video) - Part 2

How much website traffic did you get last month? What was your website conversion rate - the number of leads you generated relative to the amount of traffic? How many sales did your website influence or directly lead to last month? If you don't have a good grasp on those numbers, don't worry about it! We're gonna set some smart goals in today's video. It's an essential piece of your online marketing plan. We're also going to run through some of the key metrics you need to keep your eye on.

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How to Audit your Online Marketing

If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?

Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.

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