They need nice, new phones, right?  Oh, and fancy, wireless headsets – looking like Britney Spears ready to cold call some fools.  Bring in the stack of overhead door marketing brochures that we just got back from the printer and make sure they all have plenty of those.  Our radio ads are kicking butt and our mailers are hitting almost every household in the zip codes around my business. So, honestly the phones should just be ringing, right?

Marketing in 2017 is inbound-centric.

In fact, inbound is the preferred marketing method for all companies that spend under $5 million annually on marketing. If your organization spends less than $100,000 on marketing annually, you’re four times more likely to practice inbound than outbound. In the words of Guy Kawasaki, "If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.”

By developing content aligned to users’ needs at every step of your sales funnel, you can motivate prospects to self-qualify. This can save your sales team hundreds of hours annually, focusing your sales resources on clients who suit you best who are also ready to buy.

An effective inbound marketing strategy team will sit down with your sales and marketing teams to discover and create clear definitions for leads, marketing qualified leads, and sales qualified leads, along with defining simple ways to move buyers through the funnel from one stage to another using content on your site and a clear sales and marketing alignment.

I’m not telling you something you don’t already know here, but the overhead door industry is unique. You are working with so many different types of customers—homeowners, small business owners, big business owners and even mid-level executives who handle buying and repair decisions. Because you work with such a varied client base, attracting prospects may seem to be a complicated matter.

The housing marketing has improved, and people are choosing to build and renovate homes again. Is your company taking advantage of today's buyers looking for a home builder or contractor?

Most will use combination of marketing tactics, whether it's a website, social media, trade shows, or similar media, to convert leads into customers. But how do you take your home builder or contractor marketing strategy from ordinary to extra-ordinary?

Well, today is the day.  The day that you, hopefully, got your act together and got that special someone in your life one of the typical, disgusting, pink and red, plush or chocolate presents.  If you haven’t gotten it already, then get your ass in gear and get to the closest drug or grocery store so you can stand in the card aisle with the rest of the assholes who forgot to pick something up and field the comments from every big-mouth person in the store, all containing the words “last” and “minute”.

Industrial construction business-to-business company marketing is a complex, two-pronged necessity for businesses today to increase lead generation.

Attribution is a huge buzzword in the marketing space right now, and for good reason. For many companies, metrics-driven challenges (such as generating leads and proving ROI) continue to be the biggest challenges in their organizations, and they lack tools to help them track concrete results for their spends.

Similarly, members of associations struggle to attribute the results of their association membership fees. Without attribution, members don’t see the value and your association might be on the chopping block for their investment in coming years.

Recent information suggests that, while many business sectors are moving to create interesting, engaging, and helpful digital marketing strategies, banking is lagging behind.

If the biggest issue you face as an association is membership retention and growth, then congratulations - you’re in the majority.