What we think.

Fresh perspectives and musings from Marjoram

Why You Should Embrace a More Consultative Approach to B2B Marketing 

In a highly competitive marketplace, companies providing industrial and ingredient B2B solutions must focus on delivering value your competitors can’t. Brands that adopt a more consultative approach — establishing themselves as expert providers of solutions, rather than just makers of products — stand a better chance of creating more meaningful, lasting and profitable customer relationships. …

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Overcome Corporate Website Constraints to Market Effectively 

Overcome Corporate Website Constraints to Market Effectively

Does your corporate website help you market your product solutions? For many B2B marketers, or at least those willing to offer an honest opinion, the answer is often a firm “no.” A corporate website serves a number of purposes for ingredient and industrial brands in the B2B sector. The site unifies numerous divisions, products and…

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How to Win Internal Approval for Your B2B Product Messaging Campaigns

B2B Product Messaging Campaign Approval

Imagine that feeling in the pit of your stomach when a pitch you’ve sunk considerable time and resources into has just crashed and burned. Maybe you don’t have to imagine. If you’ve been a part of a marketing pitch gone wrong, you remember the experience viscerally.  The reason a lot of product marketing strategies fail…

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Why Your B2B Product Messaging Must Lead with Benefits Over Features 

Good marketing simply meets the customer where they are. But great marketing brings with it a compelling argument that helps your product stand out from the rest.  A product feature list, no matter how nicely presented, just doesn’t cut it.  Bottom line: It’s the story that sells. You can make the most technically sound product…

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Room for Interpretation? How Flexibility in Brand Guidelines Helps Product Messaging

Brand Flexibility

Brand guidelines are created for a reason. A few very good reasons, actually.  Branding efforts help your company define an identity and stand out from the pack. And brand standards and guidelines make certain that your organization is presented in a systematic and easily recognizable manner.  Your company does many different things and talks to…

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Are You an Ingredient Brand?

Ingredient Brands: The things that make things better. What they are, why it matters, and how to market them more effectively.

Are You an Ingredient Brand?

To put it plainly, “ingredients” are the parts or components (chips, adhesives, algorithms) that power a product (computers, packaging, search).

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Launching your product brand overseas?

A go-to guide for launching your component technology abroad.

Launching an ingredient brand overseas

Are you getting ready to launch (or relaunch) a product or technology internationally? If so, here are some great tips to turn your marketing strategy into a resounding success.

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Are you focused on the customer experience?

A go-to guide for industrial brands.

Customer Experience

Much like the three laws of motion that govern general physics, there’s a set of six fundamental truths about how the customer experience operates for ingredient brands–or any brand, for that matter. And whether we know these truths or not, they’re operating like software underneath every marketing program we develop.

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Fresh Perspectives

A newsletter we send every Friday to share our ramblings, perspectives, thoughts, and rants on all things B2B branding, messaging and marketing.

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