Content Marketing

Web Content Best Practices: Publish High-Performance Articles

By: Andy Crestodina, Co-Founder/Chief Marketing Officer of Orbit Media

There are common traits that top-performing articles share. A great piece of digital content is assembled from many little elements, words, images, tags, media and formatting. These web content best practices are broken up into three separate lists: one for SEO, one for human psychology and one for additional media.

Events Marketing

Marketing: New World, New Rules—Trip Down Customer Lane

The Association For Manufacturing Technology and GBM – Gardner Business Media are launching IMTS spark, a completely new, totally comprehensive digital destination purpose-built for manufacturing technology. Using IMTS spark, manufacturers can connect, buy, sell and learn through a pandemic. IMTS spark is a manufacturing technology expert in a savvy digital package. Open it up to find solutions, collaborate with peers, network with potential partners, and gain insight from experts. In this article, we’ll focus on customer journey mapping.
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Marketing - General

Capital Spending Survey Sees Machine Tool Buyers Seeking to Reduce Costs and Add Operational Flexibility

By: Steven Kline Jr., Chief Data Officer, Gardner Business Media

The 2021 Metalworking Capital Spending Survey from Gardner Intelligence shows overall purchasing declines but increased investment in higher-end machine tools such as turn-mill machines and five-axis machining centers.

Content Marketing

Best Practices in Plants with In-Plant Stories

By: Richard G. Kline Sr., CEO, Gardner Business Media, Inc.

From the very beginning Gardner has served manufacturing by writing about best practices with most feature articles written by Gardner editors. They write about success stories where companies are using technology to produce better quality parts at lower costs.

Email Marketing

AI Can Revolutionize Your Content Marketing

By: Katherine Rundell, Script writer, UKWritings and Academized Blogger, Write My Essay

AI is taking content marketing by storm allowing you to build smarter strategies with content that’s more personalized than ever before. AI can influence everything from your graphic design to your email marketing campaigns and provide real-time reporting on your content performance. Leveraging AI is the smart move - let’s see how it’s done.
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Webinar Marketing Secrets that Drive Revenue

By: Michael Brenner, CEO and Founder of Marketing Insider Group

Are you looking to market your B2B business differently and generate new leads to boost your bottom line? Let’s look at why webinar marketing strategies are important and four secrets that will take your campaign to the next level.
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Web and Digital Marketing

Marketing: New World, New Rules — Think Fast

By: Monica Haley, IMTS Marketing Consultant, AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology

No matter what approach you use to evaluate your marketing, you have to be willing to act. If something is working, keep going. Things that sort of work may benefit from tweaking and further testing. If something fails out of the gate, abandon it — fast. It’s time for a new marketing scheme—one that is digital, agile and tested. We’ll focus on digital marketing and failing fast. Innovate, experiment, reevaluate, and repeat with these easy steps.

Marketing - General

Finding Opportunities in the Chaos

By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor, Additive Manufacturing/Co-Host of The Cool Parts Show

2020 has been a disruptive year, but one that will likely contribute to greater 3D printing adoption and more sustainable manufacturing. Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor for Additive Manufacturing and Co-Host of The Cool Parts Show, writes about accelerating trends in AM and staying flexible in the face of a pandemic.

Social Media Marketing

YouTube Marketing: What Marketers Need to Know

By: Michael Stelzner, Founder and CEO, Social Media Examiner

Looking for tips to generate leads and sales on YouTube? To explore YouTube for marketing, listen to this interview with Nick Nimmin on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. You’ll learn why you should consider YouTube over Facebook and discover a system for generating leads and sales with value-based videos on YouTube.

Content Marketing

Get the Most From Your Content Marketing Operations

By: Clare McDermott, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy, Mantis Research

You need to create content that informs and educates on the issues that are most important to your customers and aligns with the purpose of your brand. Technology can make content marketers more productive and accountable. But too often we overlook the old-school systems, processes, and resources to optimize our content marketing engine. Here are the five must-have, low-tech concepts you need to focus on in the rest of 2020 and beyond.

Events Marketing

Virtual Events: Through the Eyes of the Exhibitor

By: Map Your Show

Exhibitors can increase their brand exposure and create valuable connections that can last beyond the event. Each exhibitor measures the success of their show differently, but here is an impressive statistic that can be a good testament to show the way virtual events can positively impact trade shows.

Events Marketing

Marketing: New World, New Rules — Experience is Everything

By: Monica Haley, IMTS Marketing Consultant, AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology

Experiences are memorable. Experiences build connections and breed associations. If you can give a customer a positive experience, they will remember you when they have a need — whether that is tomorrow or 12 months from now. Put 2020 back in order by adopting some new rules — and applying some fresh ideas.
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