How to do Internet Marketing of Industrial Products?

Online marketing of industrial products or services are marked different from FMCG and
consumer commodities as industrial market segment, customer behavior, touch points are
entirely different. Internet Marketing strategy and value delivery system needs to be highly
targeted and should be incorporated in branding of corporate as well products.
The size and expenditure of Internet marketing campaigns for industrial products are
comparatively small and are more intense. Majority of the budget is spent on maintenances
and domain expertise information outflow. The Internet marketing team’s role is very specific,
inclined towards searching, content management and replying quires.

A comprehensive Internet marketing plan is outlined here, with understanding that industrial
products have different needs for marketing. These can not be sold or brought individually,
and have more factors in attribute vis a vis FMCG and commodities. The quantities are large
and amount is huge, not suitable to be transferred online, in many cases.

Often these websites are outsourced to agencies that can do little justice with the money and
stake possessed by Internet Marketing. Even today most of industries don’t witness dynamic
websites in nature, where there is lot of scope for much articulation. Internet Marketing
Companies have some formulas, which they offer to clients depending on the budget.

To start with, companies need a comprehensive Internet marketing research by some expert
external agency with knowledge and experience. Business head, Internet Marketer and
Branding Agency, shall analyze the research report. Some basics like website aesthetics,
brand personality, articulation and budget needs to be settled before you hop onto the wagon.
How to make Internet marketing strategy for industrial products?

Planning robust website is starting point of making a Internet marketing strategy

Before you start planning a robust product catalog or website, you need to understand your market and competition prevailing on Internet.
With market foresight a product catalog or website is required to be conceptualized of advance level with much articulation then existing
ones. People need a reason to pay repeat visit to your product catalog.
Online Market Research Summary should be utilized to select the services and digital tools to make a fully loaded online product catalog.
Prepare a list of prevailing digital tools and services and another of non-prevailing. Define the benefits and pitfalls with every option and
index them in order of importance. Remove article with non-significant value delivery to company as well online visitors.
Please keep the budget constrains always in mind, and document your agreement with portal developers in such a way that you have the
scope negotiation at all the time. It is often observed that company tries to add or modify a part or entire content during the period, which
agency find difficult to carry out under signed terms and conditions. So try to workout ‘agreement’ in a way that allows you to flex your product
catalog without or minimum extra money.
Take approval of Top management before you ink pact with agency on all aspects, and be sure that management is well aware of time and
efforts required to produce results. Keep the proposal low profile till results are delivered; avoid high expectation on every stage. Most of the
failure in Internet Marketing occurs when expectation run higher than actual deliverables.
queries, new customer add on, database, traffic, goal conversions, etc. Be specific for every deliverable, and adjudge it up to the extend; you
can, avoid overdoing and contraindicating own proposal.

Prepare the route of all communication done via portal, including call to click, SMS, posts, business quires, suggestions, news letters, bulk
mailing, etc. in details and must delicate every job to some person and tracking. An in-depth understanding of CRM would be of help to
design the whole structure and execute it.

Redefining jargons in easy to understand English for a not-so-technical person is also required to be done. Business acumens have no
relevance with the Internet terminology, often person in top order appreciate proposal in and with annexure that make the proposal well
understood.
Sanjay Kumar Sharma
Internet Marketing Consultant
sanjay@internet-marketing-consultancy.com
Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Internet Marketing Consultant.