You’ve worked hard to ensure your building material manufacturer business is always on a path to steady growth. Now, it is time to turn your attention to helping others within your industry. How do you do this? By becoming a thought leader and guiding those with less experience or different skills than you have. In …
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If you’ve ever taken a college marketing class, then you already know the marketing mix plays a pretty big role in overall advertising strategy. Originally coined by Harvard professor Neil H. Borden in the 1950s, the term generally refers to the various areas of a marketing strategy that brands need to pay most attention to. …
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Despite common belief, construction branding is about far more than a pretty logo and a nice website. While those are two key ingredients that go in the mix, they aren’t the only thing your commercial construction company needs to focus on. In fact, branding a construction company means taking into account every interaction with every …
When you hire new team members for your B2B company, you need to know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, how well they’ll work with other team members, and how well they’re going to work for your organization. You never think of bringing on a new team member without knowing anything about them, …
Over the last few years, video services have certainly taken off. YouTube is now one of the largest visual search engines out there and social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram now include video elements. However, not all B2B companies are using this as a marketing strategy, which is a real shame. Video is …
Marketing your product or service is all about connection. It is about connecting your business’s product or service with the needs of your current and potential customers. It is about connecting your customer’s practical and emotional components in a way that leads them to you. It is about convincing them that in some small way …
Using Human Faces in Your Digital Marketing Strategy: Is it the Right Move? Read More
When you first set up your business it is likely that you put a lot into deciding how you want to present yourself to your customers and what you want to offer. It is a time where getting everything “just so” requires a lot of work, but you are excited about the process and it …
Whether you own a traditional business or if the web is the foundation of your business, you can benefit from guest blogging. On the surface, it might seem as though guest blogging is an investment of time and effort unlikely to pay off. However, guest blogging has the potential to pay meaningful dividends in the …
There’s hardly a business that’s operating today that hasn’t had some sort of public relations snafu. While they happen to nearly everyone at some point, it’s important to handle a public relations crisis the right way. Doing so can make the difference between alienating your customers or giving your brand an image boost. 1. Be …
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As a B2B marketer, creating memorable and share-worthy brand experiences can help your brand rise above the competition and raise your company above average and even great brands. One of the biggest mistakes business owners, managers, and marketers make is over-complicating their marketing strategies looking for the next new “viral” trend, and hoping their brand …
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