When talking to prospects and customers about their online advertising efforts, we’re constantly struck by the fact that many companies don’t have clear objectives. Marketers could easily define at least two measurable goals: 1. The desired revenue or sales volume to be generated by the advertising measure. 2. The required number of leads to reach this sales target. Why do…

One of the most important advantages of online advertising is the measurability of their success. We are even more surprised when customers tell us that they receive no figures at all from many online portals, figures only on request by e-mail or some wild Excel tables. For many portal providers, it is obviously not a standard procedure to provide customers…

How confident are you that you are allowed to use leads generated online for the purposes you have in mind? With great astonishment, we repeatedly discover that lead forms in exhibitor directories at trade fairs or online portals are not GDPR-compliant. This means that the leads generated this way are worthless for you, as they may not be used for…

“Our customers all speak English. That’s why we save ourselves the trouble of translating into other languages.” If you share this opinion, you’re giving away enormous potential that you probably don’t even know exists. A few years ago, I found this out myself. The website content and catalogs of a global market leader from the UK were available exclusively in…

How do you assess how well your company is known in the industry? Is every potential customer aware of its range of products and services? Or might there be thousands of users out there who have never heard of your company? The bad news first: You are probably overestimating how well-known your company is because it is so important to…

Does this sound familiar to you? You’ve prepared well for that important trade fair. You want to gain new customers at your booth. Later, after the trade fair, you discover that 95% of the visitors were again only existing customers. This is what happened to me many years ago with my trade fair preparation for the analytica 2000. As a…

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…

All of us constantly receive marketing e-mails and newsletters. Have you ever noticed that some of these e-mails display their contained images immediately upon being opened while most show no images at all? Some of those text-only ones even look as if they are defective, right? Do you ask yourself how your own newsletters appear to recipients and what first…

Potential buyers don’t care about the features that your product possesses and how proud you are of them. What they do want to know what your product can do for them. Sounds simple, right? But why do brochures, company web pages and industry portals contain so little about product benefits? Instead, they are littered with meaningless phrases like in Maximum…