10 simple thoughts to ponder to help to improve your marketing efforts

“Just because you can measure everything doesn’t mean that you should.” – W. Edward Deming Is your marketing effort going after people that really matter or just anyone? “Clients don’t care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.” – Tim Williams Are you measuring the power of your salespeople’s online brand? If […]
Small Business Social Media Tips Moving Into 2021 & Beyond

Social media offers multiple benefits to a small business. You can reach more customers and engage with those customers on a deeper level. Effective Social media marketing should include the planning, distribution, growth, and measurement of your content over social media publishing platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and more. While every business benefits […]
Virtual Trade Shows 101 for the Rest of 2020, 2021 & Beyond

Virtual Trade Shows 101
Why some small to medium sized industrial marketing efforts fail and others don’t…

Most large industrial companies always have a decent marketing budget and make it a priority because they know they need it to remain a trustworthy competitor in the long run. But, I keep noticing a pattern that happens over and over in the marketing efforts of small to midsize companies. Out of the blue, these […]
Is the small crack you had in your marketing efforts now a ravine? Here are a few suggestions to fix it.

I know you know marketing is essential, but I am realistic, it never gets the same attention as sales. In good times, it probably doesn’t need as much attention— unless you have really aggressive growth plans. But now, with a struggling economy and more competitors stepping up to grab market share, it is possible that […]
Right Now Your Customers Need You To Be Human

Almost every manufacturing company these past five months has upped their marketing game by offering more webinars, creating instructional videos, participating in virtual trade shows, running Zoom sales presentation calls, running Google and Social Media ads, sending out lots of emails, and making plenty of phone calls. All to convince you, “they” have the “solution” […]