Industrial Marketing

Anyone conducting sales and marketing for manufacturers must consider the emerging market of millennials. People born between 1981 and 1996 are considered Millennials. This group was born into a technological world, growing up with technology and its ongoing development. They use more marketing channels than preceding people in their positions. Because of this trend, your millennial industrial marketing strategy must be able to fit multiple sales and marketing material, channels, and platforms.

Attracting prospects in millennial industrial marketing

Millennials are the first adopters of new tech and media. Agility and using multiple lead generation channels is critical to stay ahead of competitors in millennial industrial marketing. Millennials tend to visit a company’s social presence first and will visit your website if intrigued. If your website looks dated, not mobile-friendly, or do not integrate with your social media networks, Millennials will view your company as out-of-touch and move on to a competitor.

Engagement in millennial industrial marketing

Adjusting your marketing messaging to work on social media, webinars, instructional videos, sales sheets, trade shows, or sales presentations is essential. Unlike prior prospects, Millennials don’t want a product or service messaging to be only written text. They want photos, graphics, and most importantly, videos to demonstrate why they should purchase it. The highest level of engagement with Millennial audiences is through a visual demo. Therefore, a product interaction or videos at trade shows will bring in enthusiastic Millennial decision makers.

Be cautious not to get mired in the “what we always did” approach to sales and marketing. Change is always a part of the manufacturing world, so be sure your tactics for effective millennial industrial marketing keeps up.

Pappy

 

About the Author

Paul Kowalski (or Pappy as he is called around the office) spent over two decades working at other agencies before opening Conach Marketing Group in 2008. The early part of his career was working with Fortune 500 clients at different agencies. However, working with smaller clients was his preference. This choice was because of the impact on a client’s business growth and forming closer, personal relationships.

 

About Conach

When he was creating Conach, his goal was to bring those Fortune 500 strategies along with years of B2B marketing experience to small business marketing clients. As a result of focusing on business to business marketing, Conach specializes in construction marketing, financial marketing, and industrial marketing. Even though we are in Mid-Michigan, Conach provides marketing services to clients across the country.

 

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