September 2014 - The Repp Group

content management systems I recently was ask by a prospect, “Why can’t I just use Wix.com to create my own web site?”.

I thought and replied, “Good question”. If this prospect has that question, then it is safe to say that others are thinking the same. I also thought, “That would make a great blog post”.

First, let us look under the hood of Wix.com and see what you get with a, “free”, online content management system or web-builder.

With the help from my friend and E-business marketing major at the Haworth School of Business at WMU, Joe Williams, we address the subject of inexpensive content management systems as they apply to industrial marketing. Continue reading “Can Wix, Foursquare, etc. Satisfy Your Online Industrial Marketing Needs?”

I have been encouraging our industrial customers for more than two years to build a corporate Linkedin “Profile”. I have encouraged them to embrace Linkedin as an efficient channel to industrial buyers…especially the younger ones.

The primary reason to use Linkedin is to “publish” your company’s blog posts. You do have a corporate blog, don’t you? As someone said recently, “A blog post is the fire, social media is the gasoline.” David Meerman Scott in his best-selling book, The New Rules of Marketing & PR, says, “Social media sure beats traditional advertising to get the word out.”

In an effort to get more marketers to leverage the industrial lead-generation-machine the web has given them, I recommend Learning Linkedin from the Experts from our friends at HubSpot.

DOWNLOAD now, Learning Linkedin from the Experts Continue reading “Industrial Marketers…Learn Linkedin From the Experts for FREE”