A webcast on YouTube and Video Best Practices is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 1 pm CST. Video is the killer app for construction marketing and search optimization. Learn how Caterpillar deploys YouTube and [...]
The September 22 webcast was our top attendance! Not surprising with our blue chip panelists. Marketing of architectural, engineering or construction (A/E/C) services is highly specialized. The webcast identifed what A/E/C marketing approaches work best. Deborah Hodges, A/E/C veteran, Executive Director of the Construction Writer’s Association and former SMPS President shared strategic marketing analysis techniques, [...]
Originally featured on The Daily 5 Remodel Blog Years from now, should the owners of certain homes have questions about their cabinets, finding the answers will take no more than a quick scan with their mobile phones. If the cabinets came from Cupboards Kitchen & Bath, that is. In May, the family-owned cabinetry cabinetry [...]
QR Codes are everywhere! The hype is backed up by statistics such as 14 million American’s scanned QR Codes in June, 2011 alone! (source: comScore) Clearly most of what we encounter is consumer advertising and retail applications. So what about the construction industry? Are QR Codes an effective marketing vehicle? The answer is yes! And [...]
Webcast – Tuesday September 15, 2011 A webcast on Architectural, Engineering and Construction or A/E/C Marketing Best Practices is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled forThursday, September 15, 2011 at 1 pm CST. Learn how architectural, engineering or construction firms market [...]
by Eric Gagnon amd originally posted by The Business Marketing Institute Wherever I go, I try to stay on the lookout for ideas and how-to-do-it lessons for making better products, and for ways to market and sell products and services more effectively. Awhile back I encountered a great company run by a guy who makes [...]
This blog, Part 2 in the a series will share email testing tips, measuring email campaigns, a Glossary of Terms, and an enormous construction email list. Part 1 covered email marketing basics, and email tips and tricks. Email Testing One of the advantages of email is the ease of testing and optimizing campaigns. Before sending [...]
This blog (Part 1) will cover email marketing basics, and email tips and tricks. Email Marketing Part 2 will share testing tips, measuring email campaigns, and a Glossary of Terms. What Is Email Marketing? Email marketing is the first social media. Long before blogs, Twitter and Facebook, marketers used email to communicate with customers [...]
A webcast on retail home center marketing and merchandising best practices for construction products is now open for registration on the Construction Marketing Association (CMA) website. The free webcast for members and non-members is scheduled for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 1 pm CST. Click Here To Register! Learn how to market to The [...]
Construction marketing is changing rapidly. The marketing mix is evolving, in a good way. There are many reasons for this metamorphosis. First, construction and business-to-business buyers (like consumers) increasingly use the Internet for sourcing and selecting products and services. Therefore search optimization becomes more important than ever. Internet search engine optimization (SEO) and social media [...]