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Operating Manuals: An overlooked marketing opportunity

Marketing In Real Life

Ever look at your operating manual as if you were a new customer? Most B2B marketing pros recognize the impact of an attractive Website and an outstanding advertising campaign to bring prospects to the Website. Clearly, most manufacturers understand the importance of a first impression to begin the sales process. Yet what happens after the sale when it's time to run the new machine and the new customer opens the operating manual?

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Are these outdated advertising techniques killing your response?

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Material Handling & Logistics magazine recently posted this gallery of full-page ads from the 1960s and three key differences from today’s advertising immediately jumped out. See what they are and how you can use the design elements of the 60s to develop effective creative today.

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How to adjust B2B advertising for viewing on phones

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Digital magazines are getting more views than ever so the value of the B2B advertising space has increased accordingly but it hardly matters if the ad's look and message fail to translate to the phone. To get advertising noticed on a small screen, consider these practical ideas you and your ad agency can implement today.

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Beware Your E-Commerce Return Policy

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Big companies like Amazon.com can absorb returned items without much consequence. But for small businesses on Shopify, Squarespace, Wix or another e-commerce platform, every sale calls for a celebration and every return a funeral. These examples and considerations offer help in developing an e-commerce return policy that works for your store.

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Businesses that Support Customers Through Coronavirus Disruptions to Earn Long-Term Loyalty

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The business disruptions, closures, cancellations and postponements triggered by the coronavirus, along with the rampant fear, instantly cost companies billions of dollars. Yet as awful as this crisis has become, it represents an important opportunity for companies and other organizations to engender long-term loyalty, support and appreciation.

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Before Generating Sales Leads, Get Your Ducks In A Row

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Most sales and marketing pros focus on generating sales leads. “Just get people to the Website!” or “Just make the phones ring and our sales people can take it from there,” are common demands of marketing teams. Then the advertising and PR hit the magazines, the PPC keyword ad program tops the search results, the companion direct mail - email drops.

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Tradeshows Reach Same People as Trademags, Btw

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Tradeshows were thought to be dead circa 2002 yet nobody told the thousands of manufacturers and distributors that continue to invest in exhibit space. In fact, tradeshow attendance has been impressively strong for years. But it struck me as rather odd that some of the industrial marketing professionals who make sure to budget handsomely to exhibit at a few key tradeshows every year bristle at the idea of advertising in the key trade magazines that reach the exact same people they're trying to r