To offer start-ups a platform that appeals to potential investors, partners, and customers, the platform operator LUMITOS developed a unique offering especially for the B2B markets of chemistry, life sciences, laboratory, pharma, analytics, and food & beverage five years ago: The “Start-up Spotlights”, which specifically focus on industry-specific young companies. The “Start-up Spotlight Chemistry & Laboratory” currently presents over 380…

B2B marketing used to be straightforward, at least for companies with an established market position. There was far less competition, so existing customers were more loyal, and few options existed for product advertising: trade fairs, specialist magazines, mailings by post and visits by sales reps. This changed only when online marketing gave us advertisers completely new possibilities. So many, in…

Are there still manufacturers that don’t do exports? Hardly. The overall share of sales generated abroad is steadily increasing. This explains why many companies have set up multilingual websites. These companies gain a significant competitive edge by addressing potential customers in their native language. With each additional language, they increase the number of sales leads from the corresponding countries by…

“Topic Worlds? Sounds like a sales campaign at a department store. What’s that got to do with me, a B2B supplier?”, you might be asking yourself, when such campaigns are best known to do well by focusing on “all your kitchen needs” or something similar. “What would that achieve in B2B?”, we at LUMITOS were thinking about two years ago.…

Do you know the feeling? You’re interested in buying something, whether privately or professionally, and spend hour after hour searching the internet for the right product. Eventually you get the feeling that it’s got you nowhere. Well, your B2B customers are no different. Just like Lukas, a laboratory manager at a contract laboratory. Plenty of orders have been coming in…

Premium Lead Generation And Its Importance A potential customer is basically a person who has shown interest in some way in a product, service or service. Such potential customers can be generated in sales by cold calling, or they can be approached by companies that already have contacts, whether such casual contacts were made by exchanging contact addresses at trade…

Most of us will have heard awkward requests like that before, be it from our line manager, an existing customer or a potential buyer who we want to win over by highlighting the advantages of our product. Unfortunately we never get to hear this request in online marketing. Instead of asking us to be concise, the anonymous prospective customer will…

Virtual trade fairs and events are springing up like mushrooms at the moment. And, as always in times when markets change rapidly, a great deal of doubt and lack of understanding can be observed among those affected, in this case exhibitors, visitors and trade fair organizers. With this article I want to contribute towards giving B2B companies and their decision-makers…

If you work in a B2B company focusing on science, there are many frustrating obstacles to getting the information you need. The industry news, product releases, technical articles and other items that keep you updated on developments come from a confusing variety of sources scattered all over the internet. Most items will not be relevant to you, but others absolutely…

E-mail marketing is on everyone’s lips at the moment. But from what I see, many B2B companies are still not aware of the opportunities left untapped in e-mail marketing – even though e-mail marketing is the most successful online marketing tool of all. With this blog article, I hope to enthuse you for e-mail marketing and show you how the…