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How To Stop Giving Away Engineering Resources During the Sales Cycle while Driving Leads and Opportunities

Consider gaining a competitive edge by turning your expertise into a product that you sell.

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How to Leverage Regulatory Changes in Your Marketing

Regulatory changes are compelling events that industrial manufacturers and marketers should maximize to their advantage.

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Elevating SMEs: How Manufacturers Can Cultivate Thought Leadership

Thought leadership helps manufacturers differentiate themselves, build trust and drive business growth.

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How Leading Manufacturers Used Creativity to Boost Marketing Success

Creative marketing makes campaigns more compelling, memorable and effective.

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How Do You Estimate Market Size for Niche B2B Manufacturing Segments?

Evaluating new opportunities, speeding up the analysis and increasing the velocity of new product introductions.

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How to map your selling process to the way your B2B customers buy

How an industrial manufacturing company transformed their marketing strategy to meet evolving B2B buying behavior.

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How to overcome perception that your solution will displace your target persona

Creating a sense of partnership and building a bond of trust.

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How Manufacturers Win Opportunities Without Being on Approved Vendor Lists

Strategies to secure contracts even if you are not on an Approved Vendor List

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Google Bard’s Impact on SEO for Manufacturers

Here’s what you must consider when factoring Bard into your SEO program as a manufacturer.

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10 Reasons Inbound Marketing Is Superior for Manufacturers

Why inbound should be prioritized.

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53 Ways to Leverage Your Trade Publication Article: A Checklist

From taking advantage of social media and email marketing channels, creative tactics take your accomplishments further.

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How to Drive Growth with Existing Customers

Proven ways you can increase revenue by meaningfully adding your existing customers into your marketing mix

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How to Create Effective B2B Sales Playbooks – Insights for Manufacturers

Use a step-by-step guide to increase confidence and give your salespeople the best chance of winning

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How Manufacturing SaaS Companies Accelerate Sales Cycles in the Traditionally Long B2B Buying Process.

Gain competitive advantage and efficiently turn leads into customers

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AISTECH 2023 Presentation:
5 Key Steps to Driving Safety Program Adoption Through Internal Communications – What Every Steel Manufacturer Must Consider.

Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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How to Conduct a Content Competitive Analysis: Best Practices for Manufacturers

Creating a comprehensive and systematic study of a competitor’s marketing content.

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Voice of the Customer: 7 Reasons Marketing Strategy Fails Without VoC

See things from your customers’ perspective with Voice of the Customer Research

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Why Smart Manufacturers Are Aligning Marketing Programs with Compelling Events

How to create an effective B2B marketing strategy that capitalizes on compelling events

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Best Practices for Incorporating Webinars into a Manufacturing Product Launch

Pre-Event, Day-of-Event and Post-Event Considerations for  your Product Launch Webinar

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B2B Manufacturing Marketing Executive Podcast

Special Guest: Beth Coleman, Email Marketing Manager, Big Ass Fans

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Need to Earn Credibility but Case Studies are not an option? Don’t miss RH Blake’s Presentation at FabTech 2022.

Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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How to build thought leadership with storytelling: best practices for manufacturers

Ask the right questions to build thought leadership content

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5 Proven Marketing Approaches for Manufacturers to Grow Distributor Business

How to Help Your Distributors Win More Business

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Messaging for New Manufacturing Product B2B Launch

How to Ensure New-Product Messaging Effectiveness

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How to prioritize and allocate resources when marketing to numerous verticals

Four Steps Every Manufacturing and Industrial Marketer Should Consider

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New Product Introduction Checklist B2B Manufacturing

5 Steps to Mitigate Risk of Product Launch Failure.

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AISTECH 2022 Presentation:
5 Key Steps to Driving Safety Program Adoption Through Internal Communications — What Every Steel Manufacturer Must Consider.

RH Blake will be presenting at the 2022 AISTECH Conference for the fourth consecutive year. Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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FABTECH 2021 Presentation:
5 Steps to Ensuring Your Next B2B Manufacturing Product Launch is Successful.

RH Blake recently presented at the 2021 FABTECH Conference. Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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Sales Enablement Content for Manufacturers: A Framework for Creating Brochures That Engage Customers, Drive Sales

Brochures can be an effective part of a manufacturing marketer’s sales enablement content toolkit – if done right.

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How to Develop Manufacturing Marketing Programs That Engage Strategic Partners

Treating a strategic partner as a marketing afterthought is a trap that manufacturers can fall into – but it can be avoided.

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How to Plan for B2B Manufacturing Product Launch Success

Proven best practices that help connect your marketing efforts to the sales channel, and tell the product story.

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How to Create the Perfect Structure for Your B2B Launch Presentation – 6 Proven Tips for Manufacturing Marketers

Creating the right presentation flow is critical to marketing launch positioning and success.

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How to Reposition Your Manufacturing Brand for Growth

An eight-step process to meticulously guide businesses through the repositioning of a manufacturing brand.

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How Manufacturers Can Earn Credibility and Trust with Use Cases

Use cases are critical for  product launches or when entering a new vertical.

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MQL vs. SQL for Manufacturers

To avoid missed opportunities, manufacturers must ensure everyone is aligned on lead qualification terminology.

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Product Development: Key Steps to Take and Avoid

Too often, manufacturers overlook the required marketing and demand-generation functions vital for a successful launch

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Intent-Based Marketing for Manufacturers: How to Win in Niche Industries

The art of collecting and leveraging information to predict purchasing behavior

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Manufacturing Marketing Website Best Practices: How to Engage Engineers

3 key steps manufacturing marketers should consider to ensure maximum engagement opportunities with engineers.

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Industrial Marketing Best Practices: Marketing to multiple marketing personas in one organization

How to effectively educate and position your offering to multiple stakeholders with different roles and responsibilities within a targeted organization.

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5 Key Manufacturing Marketing Trends for B2B Marketers

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How to more effectively leverage video in B2B email marketing and communications

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Industrial Talk Podcast

This Industrial Talk podcast discusses the 3 Components of a winning marketing plan:

  1. Strategy
  2. Content and
  3. Digital
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A Proven Framework for Effectively Marketing to Engineers Along the Buyer’s Journey.

As presented at the 2019 FabTech Conference.

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Don’t Take Status Quo for an Answer

60% of complex sales end in no-decision; Learn how Content Marketing can help.

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Podcasts Provide Unique Lead Generation Opportunity for Industrial and Manufacturing Firms

6 Primary Benefits of Targeted Podcasting for Industrial and Manufacturing Marketing

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Launching a B2B Industrial Product? Consider These Five Best Practices

Launching a B2B industrial product can be tough, especially when your audience is engineers.

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Digital Marketing for Manufacturers: 5 Insights You Can’t Ignore

Five digital marketing insights every industrial marketer should be aware of to stay competitive

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How manufacturers can generate new and better sales opportunities with consulting

3 Steps to Help You Strategize an Industrial Consulting Offer

Accelerate Marketing

Looking to Displace a Supplier?

Marketing to New Engineers Can Be Your Secret Weapon

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Accelerate Industrial Prospects through the Sales Cycle

How to Maximize the “stickiness” of your site

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Inbound Marketing for Industrial Manufacturers: Attracting Your Niche Customer

Industrial customers are taking control of their marketing exposure

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Marketing for Manufacturers – 20 Customer Insights to Fuel Your Growth Strategy

Strategic components of marketing programs that are critical to success.