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How Industrial Distributors Can Use Content Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Content marketing for industrial distributors can be very challenging. The biggest problem I’ve seen is that there is very little differentiation between distributors serving the same niche. This is only a content summary. This is only a content summary.

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What’s new and what’s working, in B2B channel partner marketing

Martech

Channel partner marketing means efforts to recruit and support third-party partners to expand a vendor’s market access. Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks.

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How to map your selling process to the way your B2B customers buy: A case study

Martech

B2B buying has changed dramatically in the last decade, and marketers need to change with it. Let’s look at a company that figured out how to change their marketing to meet their buyers’ behavior and create a positioning that added greater value to their perception in the marketplace. What they learned was enlightening.

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The 8 key trends shaping the future of content marketing for energy and utility brands

Tomorrow People

Content marketing is always evolving, so what's next? Simon Cox offers his views on how the water industry can embrace new trends in content marketing. The water industry is often stereotyped as old-fashioned, and it is this perception that will either make or break our industry.

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MDF Funds & How to Use Them

The Point

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. Yet industry surveys report that as much as 60 percent of available MDF funds go unused. Define your message.

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The Complete Guide to Channel Sales

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Whether you’re launching a channel to scale more efficiently, tap into new markets, or meet customer needs, this guide can help. In it, you’ll learn the basics of channel sales and how it can work for you. See how it works What is channel sales? While indirect sales uses a go-between, direct selling does not.

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How to Use Manufacturing Branding & Industrial Lead Generation as a Power Couple

Tiecas

In the industrial sector, the focus often falls heavily on driving lead generation, with branding seen as a secondary concern. Manufacturers often focus on technical features instead of how their solutions solve their customers’ real-world problems. See Content Preferences of Engineers and Industrial Buyers ). (See