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Smart Moves for Trade Shows 2023/2024

By Michele Nichols on Tue, Sep 19, 2023

Fabtech 2023 kicks off the season with one of the earliest major tradeshows for manufacturers. This 45,000-attendee show alternates cities each year and offers B2B technology companies an early preview of what works and what doesn’t in time for their booth planning for major 1Q 2024 shows like CES and Photonics West.

Topics: Change and Innovation Trade Show Strategy Branding and Identity
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A Fractional CMO to Manage Change & Grow Your Business

By Alison Arnold on Mon, Aug 21, 2023

Most B2B technology companies have no shortage of demand but lack a robust sales and marketing presence to seize the opportunity for growth. Engineering-driven companies have a healthy skepticism about marketing and often lack the core competency internally.

Topics: Branding and Identity Manufacturing Change Management Digital Transformation Organizational Culture
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Culture and Brand Building Q&A – Webinar with AZO

By Mary Crowley on Fri, Jun 10, 2022

With workforce shortages hampering many companies’ growth and changing customer expectations, culture and brand are more important than ever. Strong brands ring true internally and externally, so you can’t effectively address brand without addressing culture.

Michele Nichols, President of Launch Team, sat down with the AZO Network to bring insights from the latest research on company culture, brand building, and creating an authentic competitive advantage. During the webinar, Michele discussed actionable ways to attract and retain employees and customers and answered audience questions. You can also watch the full recorded webinar here.

Topics: Branding and Identity Organizational Culture
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Measuring the Value of Your Brand and Culture in B2B

By Mary Crowley on Mon, Feb 21, 2022

The organizational culture that you establish may be your most valuable asset and the key to your growth. Although culture and brand are both thought of as hard to define, measure, and manage, it’s important to understand the impact of brand equity on profit margin, customer acquisition, and customer retention. Being able to measure the value of your business culture will ultimately drive authenticity within your organization.

Topics: Business Insights Marketing Strategy Internal Communication Marketing Metrics Client Relations Branding and Identity
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9 Ways to Leverage Culture to Strengthen Your Brand

By Mary Crowley on Wed, Feb 09, 2022

Is your culture a true competitive advantage? In today's market, with little opportunity for face-to-face relationship building, your business culture matters more than ever to ensure a positive customer experience and win the war for talent. Brand development based on a strong culture supports connection, growth, and sustainability within the working environment. Take a look at 9 ways you can leverage culture in your company to help strengthen your brand and promote a positive company.

Topics: Business Insights Marketing Strategy Internal Communication Marketing Metrics Branding and Identity employee engagement
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Pandemics and Product Launches: How to Effectively Go to Market in a Changing World

By Aimee Schenck on Fri, May 08, 2020

Effective product launches and rebrands are thoroughly planned out according to specific timelines – the best time to announce the name, events with the biggest audiences, tactics that get the most traffic. It's rare that product launch planning has a contingency plan for a global pandemic.

Topics: Business Insights Marketing Strategy Product Launch Positioning Branding and Identity
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5 Tips for Better Business Meetings

By Aimee Schenck on Mon, Apr 08, 2019

Whether virtual or in person, we’re spending our work lives in meetings that aren’t working. Research shows that 67% of meetings are ‘failures’, and have lost their primary reason–getting things done.

Where have our meetings gone wrong? Over time, the amount of time spent in meetings and number of meetings held has increased significantly. Daily, upwards of 11 million meetings are held in American businesses, averaging a time frame of 31-60 minutes. These longer meetings have led to a 10% increase in the time employees spend in meetings since 2000.

Topics: Business Insights Internal Communication Branding and Identity Strategic Planning
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Trade Show Marketing: The Best of XPONENTIAL 2017

By Aimee Schenck on Thu, Mar 01, 2018

At a trade show that features the latest in the fast-developing field of unmanned technology, there is a lot of interest and noise. It’s the Wild West, and market leadership is up for grabs. So how do you make sure your company’s booth draws attention and traffic? Effective demos are key. Unique approaches to booth advertisement will get you noticed, too.

We noticed a number of powerful tactics at XPONENTIAL 2017. The following tactics are just a few your team could apply to any large trade show strategy.

Topics: Trade Show Strategy Branding and Identity
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7 Tips on Crisis Communication Every Business Should Know

By Katie Steelman on Tue, Oct 24, 2017

Lessons from Upstate Social Sessions 2017

Last month I attended Upstate Social Sessions, a day-long conference in Rochester, NY focused on social media. The event, now in its third year, included presentations by national and local professionals who have used social media successfully in their fields. A favorite session among attendees was “Don’t @ Me: Navigate Controversy, Conversation and Comments.” 

Topics: Social Media Internal Communication Branding and Identity
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Beer & Blog: Branding a New Product Category, with John Martin

By Sarah Campagna on Tue, Aug 15, 2017

John Martin is the CTO and cofounder of Martin Materials Solutions, a U.S. company that manufactures innovative glass products for the aerospace market. Martin, whose goal is to drive the technology necessary to support this unique industry, has coined the term “spaceglass”, a reference to this truly unique type of glass.

Topics: Product Launch Branding and Identity Beer & Blog (interviews)
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7 Considerations for (Re)branding Your B2B Company

By Katie Steelman on Fri, Aug 04, 2017

Whether you’re starting a new company, establishing a spinoff, or considering a total rebrand, your company name is an important decision that will drive a lot of other aspects of your business.

Topics: Change and Innovation Branding and Identity
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Making the Grade: How Print Ad Designs Win or Fall Short

By Sarah Campagna on Fri, Jul 14, 2017

There’s no doubt that inbound marketing strategies are critical to the success of today’s businesses. However, traditional outbound strategies can still play a role in capturing your audience’s attention.

B2B companies can drive buyer awareness and action with print advertising in highly targeted industry publications, but without good design, ads can go unnoticed.

Topics: Content Development Branding and Identity