Posts by EvettField
What Content Works on LinkedIn for B2B Distribution, Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses?
Before talking content strategy, it’s worth stepping back and discussing channel / platform reality. Not all channels or social media platforms attract the same audiences. For example, LinkedIn is primarily a white-collar channel. It disproportionately reaches: + Owners, CEOs, GMs + CFOs and finance leaders + Procurement, commercial and strategy roles + Senior technical influencers…
Read MoreThe Invisible Buying Committee®: The Commercial Reality Most Manufacturers Underestimate
If you sell complex products or services into agriculture, construction, or mining, you know that buying decisions are rarely simple. Yet many manufacturing and industrial businesses still build their sales and marketing strategies around a single “buyer” — the fleet manager, operations, procurement, site manager etc. In reality, that person is often just the most…
Read MoreSales vs Marketing in B2B: How Clarity Between Functions Drives Growth
In mid-sized B2B sales-focussed organisations, few topics cause as much confusion, or tension as the blurred line between sales and marketing. Leaders often speak of the two functions as if they were interchangeable. Budgets are set without clear distinction of roles and responsibilities, activities overlap, and accountability becomes muddied. The outcome is wasted spend, disjointed…
Read MoreMid-sized Manufacturing in ANZ: Three Pressing Issues. Three Practical Solutions
If you lead a mid-sized B2B manufacturing business in Australia or New Zealand, the most important thing right now is converting clear market intelligence into a focused go-to-market plan that reliably grows revenue, margin, and marketshare. Cost pressures and uncertainty are ever present, demand outlook is inconsistent, and skilled people are hard to find. Getting…
Read MoreHow EvettField Partners Approach Market Size and Market Share
One of the most common questions we receive from businesses exploring market opportunities is: How do you accurately size a market when data is scarce or unreliable? Many businesses have a solid understanding of their customers and competitors, but market sizing remains an elusive challenge. Recently, we had a discussion with a potential client who…
Read MoreMarketing expenditure in times of uncertainty? The answer is in the numbers
What marketing performance insights should leadership expect from their management and marketing agencies and contractors? In these times, the greatest service that managers can do is to provide business leaders with quality data and insights that inform and support their decision-making. This is as true of marketing as any other business function, and unless marketing…
Read MoreHow To Join The Dots With Sales and Marketing
In many organisations, the Sales and Marketing functions have a testy relationship. As a business owner or leader, what are your options? Appoint a dual role ‘Sales and Marketing’ manager? Create a complicated internal reporting dashboard to try and link the marketing metrics to sales results? Implement a new CRM to ‘force’ alignment Each of the above options…
Read MoreCustomer Buying Behaviour
What is the buying process, and who is involved? Many business owners and leaders talk about ‘the market’ and ‘their customers’ in a proprietorial way when in fact ‘your customers’ are not actually ‘yours’. They don’t even belong to ‘the market’. In B2B, your customers are independent businesses, owned and managed by individuals with their…
Read MoreHow To Create An Effective Value Proposition
What unique and compelling advantage or benefit does your product or service offer customers to induce them to part with their money given all the other choices they have, including purchasing a competitors product or ‘doing nothing’ and keeping their money in their pocket? A meaningful, credible value proposition, must pass through three critical stages:…
Read MoreYou cannot dominate a market by looking and sounding just like everyone else
There are many factors that motivate people to start a business, but no entrepreneur has ever set out with the goal of being average. They want to do something they are passionate about, to do work that has meaning, set their own goals and build something special. Something that justifies the risk and uncertainty of…
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