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Strategy, tactics, and hard-won lessons for manufacturing marketers who care about pipeline, not pageviews.

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Social Media

HubSpot Academy Inbound Marketing Certification: 5 Takeaways

“Inbound marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them.” -- HubSpot If you’re new to the world of inboun...

protocol 80 · Feb 2020
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Buyer Persona

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, yo...

Donny Kemick · Aug 2018
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Blogging

Online Marketing Plan Overview for Manufacturers - Part 1 (video)

Hey sales and marketing professionals! Are you a small to medium-sized manufacturer but you're the best-kept secret? That can be a huge challenge if you're trying to increase reven...

Donny Kemick · Aug 2018
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Content Marketing

The Best Manufacturing Website's #1 Trait

You're a manufacturer. You want to increase sales. You want to impress your prospects with your capabilities and experience, so you deck out your website with page after page of yo...

Donny Kemick · Jul 2018
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Buyer Persona

How Much of My Time Will an Inbound Marketing Agency Need?

As an inbound marketing agency, this is a question we receive often. It comes up almost every time we’re hired, and we get it. You need to know how much time to give up each week s...

protocol 80 · Apr 2017
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Buyer Persona

Smarketing: Closing the Great B2B Sales and Marketing Divide

There’s a great divide between many B2B sales and marketing teams. Generally, the two just don’t seem to like each other - even though their goals are the same.

protocol 80 · Sep 2016
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Strategy

B2B Inbound Marketing Tips: Getting a Prospect's Phone Number

We've compared dating and marketing in some previous posts. Why do we keep coming back to it? Because it's a pretty accurate analogy for the B2B buying process. Asking for a prospe...

protocol 80 · Jul 2016
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Strategy

7 Lead Nurturing Tips That Help Close More Sales

Think back to your teens and early twenties, when you were paddling around in the dating pool. There were some real weirdos in there, right? (Maybe you were one of them.)

protocol 80 · Jul 2016
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