Entries by Rob Felber

Why Your Content Strategy is Failing (Content Mapping 101)

    This week’s Tactics Thursday video is all about how to make a strong content strategy through the process of content mapping. You’ve heard it before: content is king—and the way to create relevant, consistent content is by creating a content map.  Content marketing is not a short-term campaign. Just like the manufacturing sales cycle, […]

Why Your Pay-Per-Click Ads Aren’t Working

Are you currently utilizing pay-per-click ads in your marketing strategy? Are you seeing little lead conversion or ROI from your efforts? Creating an excellent pay-per-click ad is about more than writing snappy copy. It’s a mix of creativity and data-driven science that focuses on the right keywords, the right budget, the right pay per click […]

Why Now is The Time to Get Your Database in Order – From Your Kitchen

We see you there, cutting and pasting between spreadsheets, call reports, quotations and old RFQ’s. You’re diligently trying to market your manufacturing firm in the new virtual world. It all was somewhat manageable until we were all ripped from out cushy offices with docking stations and multiple monitors. Now, we’re struggling with our single-screen laptops, […]

How to Improve Sales/Marketing in Our Coronavirus World

We are living in a Coronavirus World and it is evident that this is only the beginning of this pandemic and its impact on our businesses. For today’s episode of Tactics Thursday, I will share 3 tips to shift your sales and marketing strategy during the Covid-19 pandemic: Trade Show Alternatives– While industry trade shows […]

How to Use Publication Media Kits to Target Better Prospects

  Inbound Marketing, and all sales tactics for that matter, require proper targeting of prospects. Lead generation is your ultimate goal – but who determines just the right lead. Consequently, the same targeting data is needed when researching manufacturing trade media for publicity and advertising alike. So, let’s learn How to Use Publication Media Kits to […]

How to Use Email Automation the Right Way + Top HubSpot Email Tools

Email automation is an incredible tool that allows salespeople to nurture prospects through the sales cycle efficiently. However, if used incorrectly, automated sales emails can be a relationship annihilator. We see email automation used the wrong way in our inbox constantly. There’s nothing worse than getting bombarded with lengthy emails about why you should use their […]

How to Plan Successful Manufacturing Panels

Panel discussions are often my favorite part of an event or conference because they provide audience members with a team of experts on a niche topic in a condensed and powerful format.  If you’re managing an event that includes a panel discussion, it’s important to plan these carefully in order to have the event be […]