Industrial Marketer

The incentive for adding video to the mix for your manufacturing marketing comes down to three key factors: people prefer visual learning, search algorithms increasingly reward sites with video content, and users engage through video at much higher levels than with other forms of content. In this edition of the Industrial Marketing podcast hosts Joey and Nels discuss 5 ways manufacturers can leverage video in their marketing.

Industrial buyers have high expectations when they visit your manufacturing website. They want to learn how you can help alleviate their pain points and that you will be able to answer their specific questions. They want to see what your products can do for them, and they want as little friction as possible in being able to configure a solution, get a rough cost estimate and determine if you are a serious contender for their business. This episode of the Industrial Marketer Podcast discusses how to meet their expectations.

You can improve your chances for a successful hiring campaign if you follow these three guidelines. Effective recruitment starts with: 1) defining your employer brand, 2) clarifying your candidate personas, and 3) developing your strategic playbook. The Industrial Marketer podcast offers up a roadmap. 

The industrial buying journey has evolved into buying committees and an extremely elongated, complicated process. That makes the consideration phase especially crucial for sorting out who you will be doing business with.

As the world has become more digital, the industrial buying journey has become more complex. It’s an elongated, non-linear process that usually involves multiple stakeholders from each prospective company or current client. The stakeholders are doing massive amounts of online research independent of each other before anyone engages with the seller. That means it is more important than ever to understand who you are marketing to and when those touchpoints are taking place.

Don’t let your clients’ hesitancy to divulge sensitive information stop you from sharing your successes with the marketplace. In this episode, the Industrial Marketer podcast offers suggestions on ways to replace the traditional metric-driven case study with testimonials and success stories. These are powerful pieces for your digital content library that awaits prospects who are increasingly doing research on your website.

A good content plan has become an essential starting point for industrial marketing as the industrial buying journey has become more elongated and complex, and more buyers are doing a majority of their research online before engaging with companies. And while there are more content channels and types of content than ever, putting together a content plan does not have to be complicated. The Industrial Marketing Podcast takes you through a simple process for creating a content plan.

The elongated buying journeys in the industrial sector are a great argument for using a customer relations management tool. The many touchpoints and check-ins during the journey provide fuel to power your CRM engine, and that data eventually helps you make insights about the best sources for customers and key points in their buying journey.

Developing an Ideal Client Profile not only helps you align your sales and marketing strategies and tactics, it also can help reduce the risks and unintended consequences that come with bringing on new clients. The Industrial Marketer podcast helps you get started.

Co-hosts Joey and Nels give thanks to advances in the industrial marketer sector, from clients embracing new mindsets and technologies to the evolving nature of trade shows and the industrial companies that have become agile and made the most of unexpected opportunities throughout the past two disruptive years.