This is the future I learned of at Inbound 2016, the Hubspot internet marketing conference in Boston last week. Hubspot is a marketing automation software system we have used for the last three years. I listened to stories of hardened industrial…
The 1980 version, "Lohre & Associates is a full-service ad agency, a member of the Four-A's, a long-established business, in continuous operation in Cincinnati for more than 40 years. We serve a variety of clients in the tri-state, some for…
(Lohre & Associates and O’Keeffe Public Relations helped launch the American Dream Composite Index and are happy to repost their reports here every chance we get. This index is exactly what it says it is, a measure of the degree that Americans think they have achieved the American Dream. Enjoy.)
The American Dream Composite Index™ (ADCI) is a unique and robust measure of American sentiment that values the American Dream on a monthly basis.
The notion of the American Dream encompasses our behaviors, attitudes and satisfaction with economic conditions, personal well-being, societal and political institutions, cultural diversity, and the physical environment.
Nov 20, 2014 By Gilad Raichshtain in Analytics, Cloud, Featured, Sales
B2B Sales Conversion Rates’ processes are complex, with myriad stakeholders and prolonged decision cycles. That’s why it’s hard to know from the top of your head what’s working and what’s not. Fortunately, we have Salesforce, where we can track lead sources all the way to closing the deal.
At Implisit, we analyzed anonymous aggregated lead data from hundreds of companies to see what works and what doesn’t. Results are surprising: some channels are better at creating opportunities, but those opportunities are less likely to close; in other channels, it’s harder to create opportunities, but these opportunities are more likely to close.
I learned of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) back in 2005 when I asked Pete Strange, the president of Messer Construction, how I could get clients in building materials, construction and architecture. He said that SMPS was the best way to learn. I joined and served several years on the board of the local Cincinnati Chapter. The Certified Professional Services Marketer is the most valuable thing I have received from SMPS. It’s a body of marketing knowledge and methods that is nothing like selling lipstick or rebar for that matter. Here’s link to SMPS.org and a study guide to the certification.
(This week’s guest post is from Scott Costa, Publisher, tED magazine. We weren’t able to go to AdVenture this year but it’s the best industrial marketing conference for the electrical manufacturing and distribution industry. Our Creative Guide is from a presentation we gave at 2004’s conference. We just got the 8-19-2016 NAED eNews with this article featured.)
And one sales professional.
(Thanks to Trevor Hall, Founder, Clear Creek Digital, for this great article in the July/August 2016 STONE SAND & GRAVEL REVIEW. We thought it was just going to be another marketer that was selling industrial social media to accounts that didn’t use it industrially themselves let alone actually have experience working in a quarry, but Trevor is the real deal and has some good tips for quarries to improve their community relations.)
Social Media Can Help Improve an Operation
OUR ONLINE NEWS FEEDS and social media accounts are more and more filled with websites and articles with catchy titles like “Top 5 Amazing Survivor Stories,” “10 Apps for your iPhone,” “8 Rocks That Look Like Celebrities.” We all, myself included, get caught wanting to know more about these headlines. Many times we click and visit the information.
(Thanks to Ken Maisch for this great article in the July 15, 2016 Cincinnati Business Courier. If you don’t know the competition and the marketplace, you won’t be able to grow your business.)
Recently I attended an economic briefing session to get some insight into where the economists saw us heading over a period of time. After the meeting, while I was reviewing the data we received, I began to think about TechSolve’s client companies and how they were preparing for changes in their customer’s needs, based on changing economics, and how they were and should be planning for future changes.
May 29, 2016
Dear Chuck,
With my recent retirement, I have a little more time to reflect and felt the need to send you a “Thank You” letter. You have been doing my marketing/advertising for 15 years now. The type of ads I required were a little out of the ordinary. The combination of art and technology is always hard. For Schleicher sailplanes, First we sold expensive, exclusive recreational dreams, second we sold a level of technical sophistication for our aircraft of which Boeing would be jealous. Combining the two is a certain balance which you understood right away. You “got it“ very quickly. Thanks. I’ve enjoyed the great ads you have created for us as well as the articles about our principal, Alexander Schleicher Sailplanes. Especially the interview with their new designer, Michael Greiner. Your article was at the start of his career. Then he went went on to create one of the most successful sailplane designs in the history of soaring.
Several months ago we reviewed one of Emerson’s new ads that ran in Chemical Processing, “Chemical Processing Readex Research Response for Process Equipment Marketing Effectiveness.” It was a reader survey about the effectiveness of the ads that ran in the January 2016 issue. “Eye-catching ad but I can’t believe their claims.
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