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Digital Marketing for Industries: what you need to know

With the pandemic, industries began to look with good eyes at digital marketing. Many companies had to migrate online without knowing much how to do and what best communication strategies to make the company relevant in the market, and consequently, to better stand out and sell their products. Forget the [...]

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Digital Marketing for Industries: what you need to know

With the pandemic, industries began to look with good eyes at digital marketing. Many companies had to migrate online without knowing much how to do and what best communication strategies to make the company relevant in the market, and consequently, to better stand out and sell their products. 

Forget the time when just having a good website and social media profiles made a difference. Today we need to go much deeper into what marketing can offer best, applied on multiple channels, automated and planned efficiently. 

Even if we are gaining more space with technological advances, digital transformation and globalization, when we talk about Digital Marketing for Industries, many questions and questions need to be answered, since the focus of marketing strategies is not the final consumer, but other companies (B2B). 

For the industry, marketing is a key part of the business that affects prices, products and sales and ensures the company's success with the acquisition of more customers, revenue increase or expansion to new markets.


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Targeting more accurately

You can reach the customer focused and specialized for your business with a budget much lower than conventional marketing, applied in traditional media like TVs. The big advantage is that digital tools include message targeting, allowing you to speak only to your target audience. 

The result of this is much more targeted and efficient ads at a much lower cost.

Therefore, for many industries, Digital Marketing is a way to face the industry's big names. Thus, advertising media are not restricted to those who have money to pay and even small industries can benefit from it.

The relationship between strategies and sales

Remember that in any marketing action, you always have to have a strategy behind you, in addition to disclosing the brand. Generating effective results for commercial, should be the main focus, and some steps facilitate this understanding within what we call the Inbound marketing or inbound marketing: 

Attract

Use the attraction to make your company more relevant in search engines like Google, for example and bring traffic to the site, in addition to social networks. The goal is to find information about the user and identify which ones can become leads and also possible consumers of your brand.

Relationship

In this stage, the closest relationship between company and client begins, so the importance of a good relationship offering content that is relevant to this audience, exemplary service and interaction with conversations via social networks and chatbots. Understand that here your brand will be taken into consideration for a purchase decision. 

Sell

Having information from users and a good relationship going on, the sales team's work is made easier. With the help of marketing, the commercial sector will know the right time to offer a particular product or service, increasing the chances of trading.

Analyze

With the metrics and data analyzed, periodically monitoring the actions, it is easy to identify what is working and what needs to be improved or what should be discarded. 

“Always improving” is the keyword, aiming to obtain customer retention and also the search for more targeted users. A/B tests are recommended.

Digital marketing for industries in practice

Now that you have noticed how interesting Digital Marketing for industries is, check out some tips we have successfully applied to our customers served by Nationalvox:

The site is the boss car

Having a website in robust and safe platform, with a good presentation, content, layout, responsiveness, contact forms, SEO, among other things are indispensable to sell to other companies using marketing. 

In the digital world, the first impression is what it gets, like in real life. So have a website that is modern and updated with the best tools to welcome many visitors and interested in your brand/product.

Targeted content

You will always read here on the Blog we say that content makes all the difference in marketing. Instead of chasing prospects and customers, you will make them come to you attracted by relevant and differentiated materials. 

Have a blog where you can publish specific articles to give your customers and visitors content that is interesting to them. Explore everyday topics that solve some problem. This helps attract the right customers, who convert out of interest. With information and data that your visitors interact with, they already have a greater chance of becoming leads. 

Example: news about current situation in your market area; tips and guides to solve common problems in your business; success cases of your customers. Look for trends, trends that are high and can be shared or transformed into rich content.

SEO focused on B2B

SEO (Optimization for search engines) is a set of optimization techniques, which aims to improve the positioning of a page in the organic results of the searchers, achieving more accesses and the possibility of conversion. 

This strategy involves concepts such as: content readability, good use of keywords, quality of the links used and the relevance of the text to the subject addressed. Google algorithms today have an incredible ability to analyze the quality of a text, and they know how to differentiate a good writing from a keyword soup. It is essential that the writer or copywriter is good with SEO. 

Presence in Social Networks

Who nowadays doesn't have a Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn account for relationships or business? This must also be a reality for companies. Marking constant presence on social networks improves brand exposure, leads traffic to your website, strengthens customer relationship and even improves your position in search engines. 

The large industries work their brands a lot on the networks, with product-differentiated profiles. Creativity is the limit, but don't forget to take care of the institutional, too, in the face of competition. 

Traffic announcements

Consider your annual marketing planning, funding to invest in ads or sponsored links that help you to find out what you're looking for. take traffic to the site, blog, pages or specific campaigns. 

Although uncomfortable in some cases, (and expensive depending on your branch) sponsored links can be powerful allies when used correctly. And the key to success is to show the ad to the right person. 

Google has Adwords, while Facebook and Instagram use Face Ads and LinkedIn LinkedIn Ads. These tools have options for you to choose the audience that will receive your ads. 

If you have a list of emails (I'll talk about it later), you can create a group to which your ads will be directed. Another important resource is to track down those who saw your ad and interacted with it, and can better understand the purchase journey and its target audience. This is essential when it comes to Digital Marketing for industries.

Email Marketing is important in marketing for industries

Consider email marketing as an efficient channel in your marketing strategies. Capture and have a lead base that you can feed with content by email at every stage of the journey where they are. 

Having a tool for creating emails, shooting and automation helps in the process of management, monitoring and analysis. There are many in the market. Here at Nvx we use the Bulldesk.

A good advantage is that email can be sent with virtually any content, whether it's a simple ad, text, video or a link. But remember, especially for marketing Digital B2B, which is most important to keep your client, and that he's just as busy as you are. Prefer quality in the place of quantity. Avoid filling the mailbox of your leads, plan the shots and preferably choose to segment. 

Cultivating leads

Leads are visitors who have become potential customers, providing their basic data such as name, email and phone. In Digital Marketing for industries, it is very important to keep them on the right track, so they actually become customers and realize their purchases. 

Split leads by funnel steps: top, middle and bottom, offering different content through the shopping journey. 

Lead tracking, a feature offered by most tools, helps to better understand leads: which pages of your site have visited, what they have searched your site, which ads have clicked, etc. This way you can send the right ad or email to each person and optimize their sales. 

If leads have already become customers, keep them nourished by sending relevant content that can be focused on new purchases, or even by offering advantages to encourage you to become a brand promoter. 

Conclusion

There are several other ways to do or improve digital marketing for industries, in this article I chose the main ones we practice in the day-to-day and should be on the radar of any professional or marketing team in the companies. 

Hire a digital marketing agency with expertise in the industry sector and that can meet its demands efficiently, can also be part of your planning and facilitates the search for expert-oriented results. Click HERE Talk to me and meet our cases. 

Gustavo Trentini · Nacionalvox

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