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6 Reasons Outsourcing Your Marketing is A Great Idea

Why should you consider outsourcing your marketing? There are many good reasons but most of them come down to dollars and expertise. Unlike sales, marketing is an expense -- not a money-maker. The sales team is usually the last department to be cut. Having too many marketers can potentially drain your profits, but too few can lead to an overworked team. At times you may need outside opinions because you are too close to the situation, which can lead to tunnel vision. If you feel adding more staff will make your company unbalanced or you just need some clarity from an expert, it is probably time to consider outsourcing your marketing.

4 Brand Differentiating Questions to Ask

Brand positioning and messaging is a critical component to your business because it tells your buyers who you are and why you're different. The positioning process and the way it hones and defines your company's brand, tone, and differentiators help align executives and stakeholders and often later dictate decisions as broad as website hierarchy and overall content strategy.

5 Questions to Ask  Before You Buy a Web Content Management System

Unlike print collateral, your website is a living document that requires frequent attention and updates to successfully meet your marketing and business goals.

Content Reuse: Repurpose, Revamp and Reap the Benefits

As busy marketing professionals, we all juggle projects and wear many hats in our organization. It can be hard to find the time and inspiration to create new content every week.  At the same time, your marketing strategy prompts you to produce quality content consistently, while also publishing new ebooks and white papers quarterly. So, what's the secret to producing quality content while still getting the rest of your work done? Repurposing and revamping valuable content saves time and money while still driving results. 

How to Leverage Content to Streamline Your Marketing Funnel

As a B2B technical company, you need a way to generate and convert leads in today's digital age. Your marketing objectives include growing awareness and brand trust; improving search engine performance; and generating more sales-qualified leads. So how do you manage and prioritize all of your objectives to meet your goals? Content marketing helps you meet all of these objectives. 

An Introduction to GDPR

GDPR comes into effect May 25, 2018, and if you have European Union citizens in your CRM, you need to be ready for it.

Increase Technical Audience Engagement with Interactive Content

Think about the last time you took an online assessment or used a web-based calculator. You were probably engaged and learned something valuable. 

5 Proven Tactics to Reach Engineers

At TREW Marketing, we work everyday to help deeply technical companies effectively market to engineers and scientists. Based on years of researching engineers' search, content and buying preferences, and working with companies across North America in industries from automotive to IIOT to implement content and inbound marketing programs to drive awareness and demand, we have put together this list of five proven best practices to follow. 

Content IS King - 5 Steps to Writing Effective White Papers

Compelling content is vital to your marketing efforts – engineers need and expect technical content such as white papers, data sheets, and detailed customer testimonials. These materials do much more than inform; through engaging content, you increase trust, strengthen perceived value and brand loyalty, gain a higher click-through rate for content placed on your website, and ultimately generate new leads and sales.

3 Steps to Calculate Your Leads-to-Revenue Ratio

This is a short excerpt from the book Smart Marketing for Engineers: An Inbound Marketing Guide to Reaching Technical Audiences. The complete formula as well as a full description of how to organize your marketing team and define expected outcomes is detailed in Chapter 12.  Do you want to know how many web visits and leads you need to meet your revenue goals? Follow these three steps to create the math model for your marketing and sales funnel. At TREW, we understand engineers want to know what output comes from certain inputs. Up to now, for traditional marketing, that’s been difficult. But with the transformation of marketing to the digital world, we now have much more insight into the inputs along the funnel such as website visitors, the rate at which those visitors convert to leads, and how leads become sales opportunities. So let’s go through the formula. I’ll use hypothetical numbers to illustrate how it works.