Web and Digital Marketing

7 Steps and 3 Tools for a Complete SEO Analysis

By: Sales & Marketing Management Connect

No matter what industry you are in, there are competitors that are keen on overtaking your company and staying ahead. You must, therefore, keep your website SEO performance up to date. Here are some steps and tools to aid in your efforts.

Web and Digital Marketing

Who Are You, as a Brand? Do You Know?

By: Elton Mayfield, Co-Founder, ER Marketing

Your brand must be consistent and in line with your organization’s culture, but it also has to be unique, and different from your competitors in significant ways or you won’t stand out. It still also needs to accurately represent what you build, sell, or service while fitting in with your industry in order to build an audience that identifies with and supports your brand.
#brandbuilding

Web and Digital Marketing

Get Emotionally Smart and Meet Demands of Modern Marketing

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

Modern marketing involves far less whiskey guzzling and far more data and introspection. So let’s explore the emotions behind the journey and focus on steps to gain emotional intelligence and meet the demands of modern marketing.
#brandbuilding #customerfocus

Content Marketing

Securing Career at Gardner Business Media—A Dream Come True

By: Eduardo Tovar, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Machine Shop Mexico

Eduardo Tovar, Editor-in-Chief, Modern Machine Shop Mexico discusses his dream come true of securing a job at Gardner Business Media. After hard work visiting associations, suppliers and key contacts in Mexico, a good readership was built and three key employees in sales, marketing and audience development were hired. Today, the team has 18 employees and Modern Machine Shop Mexico is the top magazine in Mexico in the metalworking and manufacturing sector.
#brandbuilding

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.
#customerfocus

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.

Content 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.
#design

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.
#economics

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.