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How Industrial Marketers Earn Trust in Complex Buying Cycles

Overcoming the Challenges of Markets that are Shaped by Long Buying Cycles and Conservative Buying Committees

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Win the Window: Introducing The RH Blake Compelling Event Report™

How to Integrate Compelling-Event Discovery & Analysis Into Your Marketing

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What B2B Manufacturing Buyers Want from Your Thought Leadership

3 things that B2B manufacturing buyers demand above all else from thought leadership content

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How Savvy B2B Manufacturers Generate Warm Referrals Inside Key Accounts

Using your customer’s reliance on peer recommendations to deepen relationships and unlock opportunities

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Why B2B Manufacturers Must Target Strategic Concerns

How highly specific, deep-dive content addresses critical strategic concerns when marketing to C-Suite level clients.

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Close the Technical Credibility Marketing Gap

Why specificity trumps general experience turning expertise into a repeatable marketing and sales advantage?

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Why B2B Manufacturers Must Optimize their Digital Storefronts for Self-Service

Your buyers are already in self-service mode. Is your digital storefront equipped to meet them there?

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9 Red Flags for Manufacturers That Their Positioning Is Losing Its Impact

Is it time for your B2B manufacturing or supply business to reassess and redefine its market positioning?

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Top Sales and Marketing Resources for Industrial Distributors

Don’t navigate sales and marketing challenges alone. Resources to strengthen your go-to-market approach.

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Creating Differentiation Through Effective Thought Leadership

Eight essential ingredients for medical device manufacturers to stand out in a competitive market.

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Thought Leadership: Driving Margin Expansion

Thought leadership is more than just another marketing tactic. It’s a strategic investment that delivers tangible financial returns

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How (and Why) to Build a Community on LinkedIn

Learn About 10 Characteristics that Help B2B Manufacturers to Build Successful Communities on LinkedIn.

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Why Self-Service Tools Are Essential for B2B Manufacturers in the Age of LLM Search and Agentic AI

Self-service tools aren’t a convenience anymore. They are your competitive edge.

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How B2B Manufacturers Can Boost Thought Leadership Effectiveness with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads

Positioning your brand as a trusted voice to generate engagement and accelerate sales cycles.

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How Machining Companies Can Use Thought Leadership To Stand Out

Reframe how buyers perceive the value of machined parts, components and assemblies.

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How Strategic Thought Leadership Influences the Purchasing Behavior of Industrial Buyers

Optimizing the buying journey with strategic insights.

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Is Organic Traffic Disappearing? What Our Review of the Largest U.S. 100 Manufacturers Reveals About the Impact of LLMs

Don’t navigate sales and marketing challenges alone. Resources to strengthen your go-to-market approach.

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Unlocking the Power of Value in Messaging Frameworks

How B2B manufacturers can ensure marketing efforts are compelling and effective, improving conversion rates and market positioning

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What Is a Good Domain Authority for Manufacturers?

Think of Domain Authority as your company’s digital reputation score. The higher it is, the more likely you are to be trusted.

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Eight Steps to Launching a Personalized Expert Newsletter for Your Manufacturing Business

How to implement a personalized expert newsletter program inside your manufacturing business.

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RHBlake on the Ohio Manufacturing Institute Podcast

Episode focused on how manufacturers can build trust and better align marketing strategy.

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Five Steps to Creating Thought Leadership that Opens Doors

Establishing a thought leadership strategy is essential for effective content marketing. Here are the key steps to building a winning strategy.

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Eight Top Metrics for Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Manufacturing Thought Leadership Program

You need to look at a mix of hard data and qualitative insights.

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How B2B Manufacturers Can Overcome the Challenge of No-Click Search in the ChatGPT Era

Don’t navigate sales and marketing challenges alone. Resources to strengthen your go-to-market approach.

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Shorten Your Sales Cycle with Real-World Thought Leadership

Build maximal credibility and trust through thought leadership that is informative, insightful, and actionable.

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How to Stand Out with Thought Leadership When You Manufacture a Perceived Commodity

Marketing a perceived commodity is one of the toughest challenges in B2B manufacturing.

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12 Thought Leadership Examples in Manufacturing

Establishing a position as a thought leader is essential for building long-term trust with customers and partners.

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How To Stop Giving Away Engineering Resources During the Sales Cycle while Driving Leads and Opportunities

Consider gaining a competitive edge by turning your expertise into a product that you sell.

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How to Leverage Regulatory Changes in Your Marketing

Regulatory changes are compelling events that industrial manufacturers and marketers should maximize to their advantage.

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Elevating SMEs: How Manufacturers Can Cultivate Thought Leadership

Thought leadership helps manufacturers differentiate themselves, build trust and drive business growth.

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How to Bolster Your Thought Leadership with Research and Data

Original research and data are the backbone of effective thought leadership.

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How Leading Manufacturers Used Creativity to Boost Marketing Success

Creative marketing makes campaigns more compelling, memorable and effective.

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What is Good Thought Leadership in the B2B Manufacturing Ecosystem?

The best thought-leadership content leaves readers with a changed mindset or a new appreciation for an issue.

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How Do You Estimate Market Size for Niche B2B Manufacturing Segments?

Evaluating new opportunities, speeding up the analysis and increasing the velocity of new product introductions.

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How to map your selling process to the way your B2B customers buy

How an industrial manufacturing company transformed their marketing strategy to meet evolving B2B buying behavior.

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How to Create Thought Leadership that Influences the B2B Buying Journey

The B2B buyer journey presents unique opportunities for thought leadership to influence decision-making at every stage.

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7 Pillars of Effective Thought Leadership Topic Development

Choosing the right topic for thought leadership is a strategic decision that impacts your brand’s visibility, credibility and authority.

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How to overcome perception that your solution will displace your target persona

Creating a sense of partnership and building a bond of trust.

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How Manufacturers Win Opportunities Without Being on Approved Vendor Lists

Strategies to secure contracts even if you are not on an Approved Vendor List

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Google Bard’s Impact on SEO for Manufacturers

Here’s what you must consider when factoring Bard into your SEO program as a manufacturer.

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10 Reasons Inbound Marketing Is Superior for Manufacturers

Why inbound should be prioritized.

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53 Ways to Leverage Your Trade Publication Article: A Checklist

From taking advantage of social media and email marketing channels, creative tactics take your accomplishments further.

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How to Drive Growth with Existing Customers

Proven ways you can increase revenue by meaningfully adding your existing customers into your marketing mix

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How to Create Effective B2B Sales Playbooks – Insights for Manufacturers

Use a step-by-step guide to increase confidence and give your salespeople the best chance of winning

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How Manufacturing SaaS Companies Accelerate Sales Cycles in the Traditionally Long B2B Buying Process.

Gain competitive advantage and efficiently turn leads into customers

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AISTECH 2023 Presentation: 5 Key Steps to Driving Safety Program Adoption Through Internal Communications – What Every Steel Manufacturer Must Consider

Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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How to Conduct a Content Competitive Analysis: Best Practices for Manufacturers

Creating a comprehensive and systematic study of a competitor’s marketing content.

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Voice of the Customer: 7 Reasons Marketing Strategy Fails Without VoC

See things from your customers’ perspective with Voice of the Customer Research

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Why Smart Manufacturers Are Aligning Marketing Programs with Compelling Events

How to create an effective B2B marketing strategy that capitalizes on compelling events

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Best Practices for Incorporating Webinars into a Manufacturing Product Launch

Pre-Event, Day-of-Event and Post-Event Considerations for  your Product Launch Webinar

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B2B Manufacturing Marketing Executive Podcast

Special Guest: Beth Coleman, Email Marketing Manager, Big Ass Fans

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Need to Earn Credibility but Case Studies are not an option? Don’t miss RH Blake’s Presentation at FabTech 2022.

Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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How to build thought leadership with storytelling: best practices for manufacturers

Ask the right questions to build thought leadership content

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5 Proven Marketing Approaches for Manufacturers to Grow Distributor Business

How to Help Your Distributors Win More Business

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Messaging for New Manufacturing Product B2B Launch

How to Ensure New-Product Messaging Effectiveness

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How to prioritize and allocate resources when marketing to numerous verticals

Four Steps Every Manufacturing and Industrial Marketer Should Consider

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New Product Introduction Checklist B2B Manufacturing

5 Steps to Mitigate Risk of Product Launch Failure.

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AISTECH 2022 Presentation: 5 Key Steps to Driving Safety Program Adoption Through Internal Communications — What Every Steel Manufacturer Must Consider.

RH Blake will be presenting at the 2022 AISTECH Conference for the fourth consecutive year. Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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FABTECH 2021 Presentation: 5 Steps to Ensuring Your Next B2B Manufacturing Product Launch is Successful.

RH Blake recently presented at the 2021 FABTECH Conference. Get a copy of this year’s presentation.

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Sales Enablement Content for Manufacturers: A Framework for Creating Brochures That Engage Customers, Drive Sales

Brochures can be an effective part of a manufacturing marketer’s sales enablement content toolkit – if done right.

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How to Develop Manufacturing Marketing Programs That Engage Strategic Partners

Treating a strategic partner as a marketing afterthought is a trap that manufacturers can fall into – but it can be avoided.

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How to Plan for B2B Manufacturing Product Launch Success

Proven best practices that help connect your marketing efforts to the sales channel, and tell the product story.

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How to Create the Perfect Structure for Your B2B Launch Presentation – 6 Proven Tips for Manufacturing Marketers

Creating the right presentation flow is critical to marketing launch positioning and success.

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How to Reposition Your Manufacturing Brand for Growth

An eight-step process to meticulously guide businesses through the repositioning of a manufacturing brand.

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How Manufacturers Can Earn Credibility and Trust with Use Cases

Use cases are critical for  product launches or when entering a new vertical.

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MQL vs. SQL for Manufacturers

To avoid missed opportunities, manufacturers must ensure everyone is aligned on lead qualification terminology.

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Product Development: Key Steps to Take and Avoid

Too often, manufacturers overlook the required marketing and demand-generation functions vital for a successful launch

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Intent-Based Marketing for Manufacturers: How to Win in Niche Industries

The art of collecting and leveraging information to predict purchasing behavior

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Manufacturing Marketing Website Best Practices: How to Engage Engineers

3 key steps manufacturing marketers should consider to ensure maximum engagement opportunities with engineers.

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Industrial Marketing Best Practices: Marketing to multiple marketing personas in one organization

How to effectively educate and position your offering to multiple stakeholders with different roles and responsibilities within a targeted organization.

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5 Key Manufacturing Marketing Trends for B2B Marketers

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How to more effectively leverage video in B2B email marketing and communications

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Industrial Talk Podcast

This Industrial Talk podcast discusses the 3 Components of a winning marketing plan:

  1. Strategy
  2. Content and
  3. Digital

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A Proven Framework for Effectively Marketing to Engineers Along the Buyer’s Journey.

As presented at the 2019 FabTech Conference.

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Don’t Take Status Quo for an Answer

60% of complex sales end in no-decision; Learn how Content Marketing can help.

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Podcasts Provide Unique Lead Generation Opportunity for Industrial and Manufacturing Firms

6 Primary Benefits of Targeted Podcasting for Industrial and Manufacturing Marketing

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Launching a B2B Industrial Product? Consider These Five Best Practices

Launching a B2B industrial product can be tough, especially when your audience is engineers.

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Digital Marketing for Manufacturers: 5 Insights You Can’t Ignore

Five digital marketing insights every industrial marketer should be aware of to stay competitive

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How manufacturers can generate new and better sales opportunities with consulting

3 Steps to Help You Strategize an Industrial Consulting Offer

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Looking to Displace a Supplier?

Marketing to New Engineers Can Be Your Secret Weapon

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Looking to Displace a Supplier?

Marketing to New Engineers Can Be Your Secret Weapon

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Accelerate Industrial Prospects through the Sales Cycle

How to Maximize the “stickiness” of your site

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Inbound Marketing for Industrial Manufacturers: Attracting Your Niche Customer

Industrial customers are taking control of their marketing exposure

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Marketing for Manufacturers – 20 Customer Insights to Fuel Your Growth Strategy

Don’t navigate sales and marketing challenges alone. Resources to strengthen your go-to-market approach.

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