YouTube and B2B Marketing for Building Product Brands

YouTube and B2B Marketing for Building Product Brands

In 2006, Google bought an 18-month-old video sharing platform that attracted 30,000 visitors a day. At the time, internet video was a hit or miss proposition. Yes, other sites also featured video. But none of them hosted user-created video exclusively. That $1.65...
How to Address Diversity in Your Building Product Brand

How to Address Diversity in Your Building Product Brand

The US construction industry has a diversity problem. Currently, just 6% of construction workers are Black. And Asians make up a mere 2%. Women account for 10.9%… even though they are approximately half of all the employed people in the country....
What Building Product Brands Can Learn from Starbucks

What Building Product Brands Can Learn from Starbucks

The United States is an economy driven by consumer spending. In fact, those purchases account for almost 70 percent of the annual U.S. GDP. Whether or not a brand sells directly to end users, what happens on the consumer side of the economy… serves as...
How Building Product Marketers Can Support Contractors

How Building Product Marketers Can Support Contractors

Selling a product that requires trained and experienced installers can be challenging. Yet, it’s critically important to get this mission right. After all, general contractors are the gatekeepers to those installers… and knowing how to market and sell to...
Campaign Critique: LIXIL Americas Targets the Next Generation

Campaign Critique: LIXIL Americas Targets the Next Generation

From a very early age, kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up. They almost never answer that they want to work in the construction or building trades. That needs to change. Fortunately, some forward-thinking brands are working to make a difference....