Lohre Industrial Marketing

What Does Design Have to do with Green Building Consulting?

June 21, 2016
Charles Lohre
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Design, Design Agency

Sure, we keep telling you that 10,000 design professionals receive Blink annually, and the online catalog is available to over 50,000 art specifiers, but what kinds of people is this list really compiled of?

Today, we spotlight 5 of these designers and what it is they really do…

KNA Design | Residential & Hospitality

Complementing KNA’s award-winning design talent is sound technical expertise, as well as a practical approach to project management. During each phase of the project, from initial concept, through design development, to final installation, KNA seeks to distinguish their work through rigorous attention to detail, high standards and meticulous follow-through.

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Review: Designing B2B Brands” for industrial marketing communications”

Branding lessons from Deloitte and 195,000 brand managers, by Carlos Martinez Onaindia & Brian Resnick.

HOW Magazine introduced us to this 2013 book published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., it’s about Deloitte’s branding and its implementation throughout the organization. We saw an ad on HOW’s website.

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2017 Industrial Marketing Trends

Industrial marketing is different for mining equipment, machine tools and chemical processing equipment. We’ll review what is and isn’t working in industrial marketing trends.

A short history of Lohre & Associates:

—1996 Second Wind, small agency coaching
—9-11-2001 The end of growth
—2002 Goal: More control over business growth
—2002 EDOC Outsourcing call center
—2004 Society for Marketing Professional Services (Engineers, Architects, Builders)
—2008 Recession, things got worse
—2009 Green Building initiative
—2013 Hubspot

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Designing B2B Brands” – B2B Branding Lessons Update”

Branding lessons from Deloitte and 195,000 brand managers, by Carlos Martinez Onaindia & Brian Resnick.

For our last post of 2016 we’d like to update one of our most popular blog posts ever. This book still stands out as the best B2B Branding Lessons we have ever seen. Get in touch if you would like a free copy.

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1937 Cincinnati Ohio River Flood Anniversary

Cincinnati Enquirer remembers the 1937 Flood.

“After unprecedented precipitation, the Ohio River in Cincinnati rose to its all-time high on Jan. 26, 1937. It was a natural disaster than spanned the entire length of the 981-mile-long river. Michael Nyerges.” Read more.

One of the founders of our agency, Edmund Strauchen, did the above illustration for the Enquirer that day.

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B2B Sales Conversion Rates – Benchmark Research Finds Surprises

Implisit analyzed the pipelines of hundreds of companies to discover the channels that deliver the highest conversion rate. Are you focusing on the right channels?

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.

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Industrial Marketing for Engineering, Architecture and Construction

Industrial marketing is different for machine tools and chemical processing equipment, but it’s even stranger for engineering, architectural or construction services.

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.

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