December 12, 2025
Watching Christmas movies like A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, or the endless Hallmark lineup is a time-honored holiday tradition. And every year, someone reignites the great debate: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? The short (and correct!) answer is: No. And that’s exactly why it’s the perfect metaphor for modern B2B content marketing. Here’s the…
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November 28, 2025
In the world of industrial and technical B2B marketing, social media is no longer a “nice to have.” It’s a core component of how modern buyers discover solutions, evaluate partners and engage with brands. But here’s the mistake many organizations still make: They expect social media to create content. It can’t. And it shouldn’t. Social…
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November 17, 2025
The Summary An always-on content strategy and answer engine optimization (AEO) work together in industrial B2B marketing by ensuring brands stay visible, credible and discoverable — 24/7. Always-on content builds continual engagement across the buyer’s journey, while AEO structures that content to win answer boxes, voice searches, AI summaries and conversational queries. Together, they increase…
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November 7, 2025
How Strategy + Systems Drive Sustainable Manufacturing Marketing Success Across the industrial B2B landscape, one thing is clear: automation has become the default move. Manufacturers continue to adopt new marketing technology, AI-powered content tools, and integrated sales systems at a record pace. But with so much focus on technology, many organizations are discovering a hard…
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October 31, 2025
This is part 3 of the blog series, “Accelerated Marketing Growth: A Framework for the Modern Manufacturing Executive.” The Gist In industrial markets, growth isn’t optional — it’s essential. But only disciplined, strategic growth compounds over time. “Accelerated growth” combines strong fundamentals with innovation — from foundation to automation. The journey unfolds in three stages:…
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October 27, 2025
This is part 2 of the blog series, “Accelerated Marketing Growth: A Framework for the Modern Manufacturing Executive.” The Gist Too many manufacturers try to scale marketing without a foundation — but growth starts with clarity, not campaigns. The Accelerated Marketing Growth framework defines three foundational pillars: Value Proposition, Differentiation and Proof. A strong foundation…
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October 6, 2025
Imagine this: You’re no longer just selling equipment. You’re selling uptime. You’re selling predictability. You’re selling a guarantee that when your customer’s production line runs at 2 a.m., their equipment performs exactly as promised. This is the reality industrial manufacturers are stepping into with digital twins, IoT-driven insights and service-based business models. The shift from…
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August 21, 2025
The world runs on data. From AI algorithms shaping tomorrow’s innovations to streaming platforms entertaining billions in real time, the demand for data storage and processing is surging at an unprecedented pace. Behind every click, swipe and transaction sits an infrastructure challenge of massive proportions: the data center. For industrial B2B suppliers – whether you…
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July 31, 2025
What Does the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Mean for B2B Brands? It’s official… the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA*) has passed. Behind the catchy name is a piece of legislation that’s anything but superficial. This sweeping new bill is poised to inject billions of dollars into American infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, supply…
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April 13, 2023
Not long ago, business owners relied on reaching their local customers by paying neighborhood kids to spread promotional flyers around the community. This old-school type of marketing may have worked well in the past (back when most people still believed the internet would only be a fad), but nowadays, there’s a better digital approach. It’s…
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April 6, 2023
As B2B marketers, is it time we start paying attention to Gen Z? Well, with nearly 42% of Gen Zers now involved in B2B purchasing decisions, it would be crazy not to! Gen Z is quickly becoming the most influential demographic for B2B marketers to target. Often referred to as “digital natives,” they have grown…
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January 4, 2022
The term “emotional intelligence” (EQ) from a marketing perspective might make you think of a number of things. Maybe it conjures thoughts of brands whose social posts get people consistently excited about their products. Or perhaps it brings to mind instances when a company has directly addressed a pain point that their audience cares about….
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