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What to Consider When Buying a Machine Tool
By: Jedd Cole, Associate Editor, Gardner Business Media, Inc.
This probably isn’t mind-blowing, but machine tool purchase decisions are not to be taken lightly. A shop looking to acquire a new machine has to weigh its options. This means, among other things, carefully considering the work it needs the machine to do and evaluating any number of financial variables against the machine models available. This Knowledge Center is dedicated to trying to make those tasks a little easier. We'll continue to add content over time. Here’s the basics on What to Consider When Buying a Machine Tool as well as some recent machine introductions from some of the industry's leading players.
Why Manufacturers Should Pay Attention to Web Accessibility
By: Jeff White, Co-founder, Kula Partners, Made for Manufacturers
Accessibility doesn’t need to be thought of as a compromise that somehow reduces the aesthetic of your website. All you need to do is ensure that your design ideas are informed by accessibility standards, and you will end up with an attractive and modern website that works for the largest possible number of users.
October Sees Moderate Contraction, but Growing New Orders
By: Michael Guckes, Chief Economist/Director of Analytics, Gardner Intelligence
The GBI for October was 48.3, signaling a fourth month of mildly contracting business activity across the U.S. manufacturing sector. However, total new orders continue to do well. Based on a three-month moving average, the best performing end-market as of October was aerospace, followed by medical equipment manufacturing. The market for construction machinery continued to experience the fastest rate of contracting business activity, mirrored by a similarly enduring contraction in the industrial motors market.
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Ensure Your Content Strategy is Heading in the Right Direction
By: Elton Mayfield, Co-Founder, ER Marketing
What would your marketing team do if you crashed on a desert island? With no compass, map, or GPS, and no way to know how to find kindling, shelter, or water, you’d be lost. Is your content team on the right path? How do you know when your content team is off the mark? Your content might look sharp and read well, and have racked up LinkedIn likes and other social media attention. But, how do you know if your content is heading in the right direction? Here are four steps to ensure your content strategy is on target.
What B2B Sales Prospects Want to See from Your Website
By: Al Davidson, Strategic Sales & Marketing (SSM)
As you walk through the customer’s journey through your website, you should ask yourself: “is this page/landing page/pop-up window/website feature making it easier to convert people into customers?” Here are tips to make your website more sales-focused, based on the most important elements that your prospects want to see.
3 Major Trends in Manufacturing (And They All Begin with “A”)
By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing and Modern Machine Shop magazines
Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief of Additive Manufacturing and Modern Machine Shop, sees 3 big, major, long-term trends that continue to reshape manufacturing.
Gardner Business Index (GBI) Shows Uneven Contraction Across Facility Sizes
By: Michael Guckes, Chief Economist/Director of Analytics, Gardner Intelligence
While some manufacturing markets have maintained their levels of growth, manufacturing as a whole is in its third month of consistent contraction. The GBI finished September at 48.2, marking its third consecutive month of contracting business activity and falling over 16% from the same month one year ago. While firms of all sizes are feeling the slowdown, manufacturers with fewer than 20 employees have been feeling it less severely than ones with 100-200 employees.
#economics
Convincing the C-Suite of Long-Term Marketing Plans
By: Elton Mayfield, Co-Founder, ER Marketing
As a marketing professional, how do you convince the decision makers (who don’t necessarily understand your process) that a two-month-long campaign is worth the upfront investment? Here are a few ideas to make your job just a bit easier.
Buying B2B Print and Digital Advertising. A Common-Sense Primer.
By: Mark Semmelmayer, Chief Idea Officer, Pen & Inc. Marketing Communications
Buying B2B advertising may not be your full-time job, so here are tips to help do it better.
Marketing Potential with Insights from Industry Experts
By: Cadenas PARTsolutions
This ebook is for industrial marketers, built by industrial marketers. Fourteen experts from manufacturers and marketing companies throughout the industrial sphere share their advice. Inside, you will find practical, industry-specific advice from experts in the field. These nuggets are meant to help steer your marketing strategy toward success.
Influencer Marketing More Meaningful in B2B
By: David Fabbri, Chief Strategy Officer, LoSasso
Because of the B2C focus, some companies mistakenly think that influencer marketing is not a good fit for B2B. They assume that the benefits of having an influencer use, talk about or recommend their content or products won’t work well for B2B because audience sizes tend to be much smaller. The good news is that influencer marketing not only works for B2B, it can actually be much more meaningful and cost-effective than in the consumer space. Here are five important reasons why.
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GBI Rebounds Slightly in August
By: Michael Guckes, Chief Economist/Director of Analytics, Gardner Intelligence
The Gardner Business Index (GBI) experienced a modest rebound in August, registering 49.0. Gardner Intelligence’s review of the underlying data for the month observed that the Index was supported by supplier deliveries and production, as well as a ‘no change’ reading in new orders.
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