If you don’t have any experience with stand-alone mailings, you’re probably asking yourself “What are stand-alone mailings? What do they achieve? Are they worthwhile for our company?” At least that’s how I felt many years ago as the Head of Marketing at Schleicher & Schuell. I wasn’t really convinced by what the third-party providers were telling me. Nobody wanted to,…

When talking to prospects and customers about their online advertising efforts, we’re constantly struck by the fact that many companies don’t have clear objectives. Marketers could easily define at least two measurable goals: 1. The desired revenue or sales volume to be generated by the advertising measure. 2. The required number of leads to reach this sales target. Why do…

B2B marketing used to be straightforward, at least for companies with an established market position. There was far less competition, so existing customers were more loyal, and few options existed for product advertising: trade fairs, specialist magazines, mailings by post and visits by sales reps. This changed only when online marketing gave us advertisers completely new possibilities. So many, in…

Are there still manufacturers that don’t do exports? Hardly. The overall share of sales generated abroad is steadily increasing. This explains why many companies have set up multilingual websites. These companies gain a significant competitive edge by addressing potential customers in their native language. With each additional language, they increase the number of sales leads from the corresponding countries by…

Where do the member companies of SPECTARIS, the German Industry Association for Optics, Photonics, Analytical and Medical Technologies, stand when it comes to sharing know-how by offering webinars? To answer this question, we analyzed the websites of the member companies: Who offers webinars for existing and potential customers? Are the webinars made available live or on demand? How many webinars…

When launching a new product, you must advertise it vigorously to attract as many potential buyers as quickly as possible, because even the best product won’t sell by itself. Why should it be any different for your webinar? Here, too, you need to make it clear to potential participants that there is a webinar of interest to them about a…

The future of trade fairs is uncertain. Attendance at corporate workshops is in continued decline, simply because potential visitors have less freedom to travel. Field sales can hardly visit customers at their premises anymore. As a result, communicating with existing and potential customers is becoming increasingly difficult. All of this leads to a difficult situation. Buyers still want to get…

In part 1 of our miniature series “How to make your webinar generate sales leads” we gave you an example of how aggressive sales tactics can put off potential customers. Based on a recent GDPR campaign of ours, we’ll now show you how to do it better. Within 90 seconds of sending out our mail blast, we received the first…

Generating sales leads online has become one of the most important marketing objectives for B2B companies. They are typically obtained by placing enquiry forms on the company’s own website, on dedicated landing pages or on B2B internet portals. Users with questions or information requests fill them in, submitting their contact details, all in the expectation of receiving a quick and…