Providing relevant information quickly is the top content priority for industrial manufacturing marketers in 2021. Email newsletter lead nurturing is making a comeback as B2B companies return to the tried-and-true marketing tactics in uncertain times.
To be clear, newsletters cannot replace social media and other “new school” tactics. Still, B2B marketers have shifted more attention to newsletters in 2021 because they work.
Let’s dive into this a bit deeper.
Social media platforms increasingly demand companies to “pay to play.” Long gone are days when following a brand on social media meant you would see their posts. Now, companies have to “boost” content, meaning convert it to paid advertising, to ensure most followers see it. Manufacturing email newsletters have an approximate 20% open rate, on average. This may seem small, but it is as much as 10x the percentage of followers on social media who will get shown non-paid content from company pages.
Through segmentation of your lead database, you can reach each segment with a hyper-personalized version of your newsletter. Segment your leads based on their behavior online and offline if you have sales contact with them. Then, focus the information in the newsletter to what each segment is most likely to want in that moment. For more on personalization in email marketing, see this previous StratMg blog post.
Now is a good time to ensure your lead database has the required segmentation to make email newsletter lead nurturing most effective. Check out our free white paper guides to Audience Segmentation in our Learning Center. I also invite you to contact us to start a conversation about improving results for your lead nurture campaigns.
–parin
Managing Partner
With over two decades of experience, Parin leads an expert demand-generation agency, StratMg, that helps industrial manufacturing clients achieve unambiguous and quantified organic sales growth across the US, EMEA & APAC.
Parin has built & positioned StratMg to be a value-added marketing services provider that strives to create a culture of quantified sales-driven marketing initiatives leading to sustained business growth through channel management, diversification, new customer acquisition and retention strategies and tactical execution.
