What You Need to Know About Google Analytics 4

Not every customer or prospect touch point is created equal in the world of industrial marketing. That’s one of the reasons you should be leveraging real-time marketing to meet prospects and customers on their terms. Real-time marketing is a way for your company to stand out in the onslaught of data.

Your industrial workforce recruitment messaging is actually pretty simple: Tell people why they should want to work at your company, and tell them why people stay. The hard part is ensuring your company can articulate its purpose and has an “employer of choice” culture.Here are the great articles mentioned in the podcast:What those new hires who don’t work out running fromWhat it means to be an employer of choiceWhy you should rethink your old hiring rules

In the latest edition of the Industrial Marketer Podcast, co-hosts Joey and Nels offer suggestions on how to get started with webinars, which can be especially effective for long buying cycles and niche manufacturing marketing. They are a preferred method of gathering information, create a dialogue with qualified leads, nurture relationships, and have high conversion rates.

The technology behind targeting can be intimidating for industrial marketers who deal with complex buying journeys. The Industrial Marketer podcast offers up a three-step approach to help you get started. It includes dipping your toe into the intent/big data waters, a little bit of account based marketing, and a whole lot of importance on personas.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools lead the forefront of current marketing conversations in 2023. Joey and Nels are diving into how they can be used by industrial marketers and what you need to know to be prepared for the coming revolution. 

With apologies to the Magi, co-hosts Joey and Nels offer up manufacturing marketing holiday gifts from the Indusrti in the form of industrial gold, marketing frankincense, and wisdom myrrh.

It may be a surprise to manufacturers that social media advertising can be a strong driver of growing prospects or even conversions. But the rich data in social media is a fertile testing ground for custom audiences. The Industrial Marketer podcast explains.

 Google Analytics 4 is not just an update of the popular, free web traffic tool. GA4 is an entirely new platform. Since Google has not made major changes in its analytics in 10 years, this is kind of a big deal. For many marketers, Google’s current version, known as Universal Analytics, is all they know. The Industrial Marketer Podcast breaks down what you need to know about this important transition. 

The key to the awareness phase in industrial marketing is getting on the prospects’ radar screen. Another way to think of it is as the Attraction Phase. You want the prospect to be attracted to your brand and how you will meet their needs. For both the prospect and the marketer, that means the awareness phase messaging should be about solving problems, getting answers and meeting needs. Listen to this episode of the Industrial Marketer Podcast to learn more.

The pandemic forced a massive, two-year pause in the industrial trade show world. And while we learned that we need to do a much better job of treating our websites like an always-on exhibit, we also learned that the in-person aspect is difficult to replace. In the latest edition of the Industrial Marketer Podcast, co-hosts J