Most manufacturers and industrial companies use email marketing as a way to keep in touch with new leads and existing customers. This usually means sending out a bi-weekly or a monthly email newsletter. It has been my experience within the industrial sector that these companies rarely use email marketing proactively for lead generation. Here I…
E-mail marketing to a house list continues to be the top marketing channel for many industrial companies and manufacturers according to Trends in Industrial Marketing 2011 from GlobalSpec. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that industrial marketers are very happy with the results. The biggest challenge in e-mail marketing faced by industrial marketers, besides not enough…
E-mail marketing to in-house lists is the most popular marketing channel for reaching engineers and industrial professionals. This was one of the findings in a recent study published by GlobalSpec. The chart below shows the different online marketing tactics that manufacturers and industrial companies plan to use in 2011.
Email marketing has been a staple of industrial marketing for a long time. However, many of these marketers are now experiencing declining open and click through rates. With all the buzz about social media, blogs and RSS feeds, are email marketing and eNewsletters dead? Not so fast! IMO, they are and will continue to be…
As we head into November and the start of the Holiday Season, B2B marketers are getting into their budgeting mode. With the cloud of economic uncertainty still hanging over many industries, it is not surprising that B2B marketers are shifting their 2011 budgets more towards lower-cost inbound eMarketing tactics. MarketingSherpa asked more than 900 B2B…
While working on an email campaign for a client who markets to manufacturers in the Process Controls and Automation industry, I was asked if there was an easy way to combine web analytics with email marketing. He was already using Google Analytics (GA) to monitor his Web site. However, there really wasn’t a good way…
