There’s a contradiction at the heart of manufacturing. On the one hand we are told that increasing automation will lead to higher production rates and improved efficiencies. And yet, at the same time, there’s supposed to be a trend towards mass personalisation, with consumers expecting greater variety of products without a corresponding increase in cost. Read more...
Electronica, the world’s biggest electronics trade show, starts today in Munich. With 3683 exhibitors set to attend spread across the halls, plus nearly 300 journalists already registered and (what feels like) countless extra visitors what should your press strategy be? To answer this we’ve analysed coverage and Google search data for a handful of the Read more...
I'm traveling today by train from my Wiltshire home near Bradford-on-Avon, England, to the thriving Bavarian City of Munich in the south of Germany. I'm on my way to the world's largest electronics trade show for engineers, Electronica, and I can't help but reflect that the event may not be taking place but for the efforts Read more...
There is little doubt that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has moved from the margins to the mainstream. At this month’s Maintec asset management show in Birmingham, there were numerous examples of how digitalisation is now being applied across a wide range of sectors, and in ever-more imaginative ways. Visitors heard how the use Read more...
This isn’t a list of blogs with some tips on how to build a successful blog like theirs. Yes, my title says we will be learning from them, but this won’t be through imitation or by following the same techniques. Each blog on this list has travelled along a very different route to get to Read more...
Google gets smarter every year and is constantly updating its algorithms. It’s constantly trying to improve search results in order to show users the most relevant, useful information. In recent years, this has meant moving towards topic-based results rather than focusing on keywords. For example, if someone searches for a specific question that’s related to Read more...
As was demonstrated in our previous blog post about how semiconductor companies can increase their Instagram engagement, tech companies do tend to find it difficult to grow an engaged social following. This, in turn, impacts the extent to which social media can be used to drive traffic to their blogs. There seems to be a Read more...
When studying our website analytics, many of us will keep track of the number of sessions or users that our websites have attracted, but we should also be keeping an eye on our bounce rate. What is the bounce rate? This is the percentage of visitors who have landed on your website and clicked straight Read more...
In technology B2B marketing we are spending thousands of dollars daily on creating content for our customers. There are many rules and guidelines available to us all from trusted sources on how best to do this: Be clear about your goal before your start – is this about qualified leads or brand loyalty? Be creative, Read more...
We’ve all experienced the cyclical impact of the highs and lows of the economy on our business and ultimately during a low, the first thing to be affected tends to be the marketing and PR budget. Companies who have traditionally enjoyed bigger budgets and local PR agency representation in each territory they operate in are Read more...