If you don’t give visitors many easy, attractive opportunities to convert on your website, content marketing won’t generate leads for you. I’ve been noticing a trend lately that I wanted to share. We talk with a lot of supply chain and logistics companies who are interested in the idea of content marketing. They’re catching on
Millennial talent seeks employment opportunities with companies that promote transparency, technology, excellence, and social change. We write often about the supply chain talent gap and how supply chain companies should be proactively recruiting millennials to join their companies. So a recent Harvard Business Review article, which talks about how companies that “young people find dull”
Here are 4 ideas for measuring podcast success, including downloads, audience, lead tracking, and intangible benefits. Podcasts are an increasingly popular content medium, but measuring their performance is difficult. Here are some tips for measuring podcast success in spite of the challenges. Spoiler alert: it’s an art, not a science. Why podcasts? Today’s busy professionals
A webinar is an excellent content medium to generate leads to or nurture those already in your sales funnel. Maybe you’ve taken a webinar to enhance your professional skills. Did you know that webinars can be beneficial not only to the students, but also to the business providing them? In content marketing, we consider a
Interactive emails, segmentation, and AI are all email marketing trends that should be on all marketers’ radars. Despite expert predictions, email is not dead. In fact, more people are using email than ever before (close to 3.8 billion worldwide). Fronetics works with supply chain and logistics businesses every day, so we have a first-hand understanding
A new study shows that businesses that reply to customer reviews receive better ratings overall than those that do not respond. I’ve written before about the rising popularity of B2B user review sites and how supply chain and logistics businesses can use them to increase organic traffic and lead-to-sale conversion rates. B2B buyers are increasingly
Use these three steps to calculate content marketing ROI to show the value of your investment. As supply chain and logistics businesses are finally recognizing the merits of content marketing, many are looking into it. But it doesn’t take much research to realize what an enormous investment it is. And how difficult it can be
While automation technology can streamline many processes and functions, customer-service automation can sometimes backfire and lose you business. We’ve talked a lot recently about implementing automation technology into your sales and marketing operations. It can be a great tool for saving time and money while increasing your communication and customization with prospects and leads. But
Are you using subtitles as part of your YouTube marketing strategy? You should be, as well as these other tips. I’ve written a lot about YouTube and how the supply chain should be leveraging it as a marketing tool. Of course, I don’t recommend just creating videos at random and throwing them up on your
In the wake of the supply chain talent gap, try these strategies to fill critical positions with qualified employees and to create a pipeline of future talent. It’s no secret — the supply chain is experiencing a major talent gap. In fact, according to Supply Chain Insights, 60% of companies within the supply chain industry
Make the most of your supply chain leaders’ social media accounts by following these steps. I’ve written many times before about the importance of supply chain leaders being on social media as the face of their brands. Social media presents a huge opportunity for executives to use their relative industry celebrity to be an extension
Check out these marketing automation tools for email workflows, social media scheduling, and customer relationship management. Lately it seems like everyone is talking about marketing automation. As B2B buyers increasingly demand personalized experiences through the buyer’s journey, marketers’ jobs are getting tougher, as they need to provide custom lead-nurturing content to all prospects in their
