How to Utilize B2B Online Marketing to Promote New Solutions

When many people think of the B2B organization, they imagine large factories or manufacturing companies, turning out large orders to other big companies. However, the reality is that companies of all sizes are business-to-business-oriented, which means that marketing strategies need to be utilized by every company, no matter the size or level of complexity in their solution offerings.

Businesses at their core, exist to solve a problem for their target audience. Once a business remembers this (even if they consist of a single person), it’s easy to see how basic B2B marketing strategies as mentioned on Forbes, like targeting actual humans, building trust, and reducing expenses for clients can have true appeal and effect.

By focusing on what the client needs (instead of your size relative to theirs), it can help you communicate better to the client how you can make them better. Furthermore, the internet has made it easier than ever for small businesses to scale, especially because they have better access to vendors and drop-shipping companies they can partner with to make their products and services available to more people.



A few good examples of this were given in Diana Huff’s post titled U.S. Manufacturing Anchors the Innovation Economy, which not only discusses how technology has furthered the development of B2B innovation, but it has also allowed companies like Diverse Woodworking, which started in a garage and now has scaled to large warehouse to create custom wood-carved products.

Not utilizing social media: Because social media sites like Facebook have their own review systems, it’s important for businesses to have a local presence. Clients are much more likely to choose a business based on a referral, whether it’s from someone they know or a handful of online reviews they’ve read. Having an active social media presence can help ensure that not only are reviews being left on website profiles, but that they, along with other current updates about the company, are being shown to as many people as possible.

In John Deere MachineFinder, optimizing John Deere dealer web pages and contact information has become an important localization element of the entire online marketing program. Indeed many of the organization’s social media mentions and inbound links can be realized through localization efforts.

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