June 28, 2010
Share your secrets for effective construction marketing with our monthly blog column. We will publish with credit and make you famous! Share ideas and approaches of some of your best marketing programs. No you don’t have to include proprietary results, just some good descriptions! The best secret of the year will win a FREE iPad! [...]
Tags: Construction Marketing Secrets, contest, iPad, marketing best practices, Marketing Tips, spcial offer
Posted in Best Practices, Construction Marketing, Construction Marketing Association, Construction Marketing Secrets, Marketing Tips
June 25, 2010
The Construction Marketing Association offers a number of marketing training programs to association member companies, each developed by experts from our Construction Marketing Institute. The programs are delivered on-site, at your offices. Choose from our popular programs below, customized to your company. Or request a (free, no-obligation) consultation to determine a customized training program that addresses [...]
Tags: Construction Marketing Association, Construction Marketing Fundamentals for non-marketers, Construction Marketing Institute, Construction Marketing Planning, Construction Marketing Strategy, Construction Social Media, Marketing Training, Social Media for Construction, training programs, turnaround marketing
Posted in Best Practices, Construction Marketing, Construction Marketing Training, Marketing Tips, Social Media Training
June 22, 2010
by Eric Gagnon Online advertising, particularly methods like Google AdWords keyword search advertising, give advertisers the immediate response and measurability they need to run accountable B2B marketing programs, with a speed and precision not found in print trade advertising or other, more traditional parts of your marketing program. The vast majority of successful AdWords lead-generation [...]
Tags: adwords, adwords keyword, adwords marketing, adwords promotion, b2b, business-to-business, google adwords, google adwords keyword, Lead Generation, pay per click advertising
Posted in Best Practices, Construction Marketing, Marketing, Search Marketing
June 17, 2010
Improving the effectiveness of new product launches is of critical importance to most companies and brands as development costs can be stratospheric, coupled with extremely high failure rates. Some estimates of new product failure as high as 90%! Certainly the new product development process is complex and multi-functional—not just marketing—but typically involving many departments such [...]
Tags: b2b, checklist, CMA, Marketing, planning, product launch, strategy
Posted in Resource
June 15, 2010
The Construction Marketing Association (CMA) has a number of Groups and Committees, along with regional and local Chapters with leadership and networking opportunities. Special interest Groups or Committees, and regional/local chapters will be formed based on achieving a minimum number of member participants. Each have or will require a Chairperson, and depending on size and [...]
Tags: Chairpersons, Chapters, Committees, Construction Marketing Association, Groups, Leadership, Networking
Posted in CMA Chapters, Uncategorized
June 4, 2010
The Construction Marketing Association (CMA) announces the Construction Brand Internet Index (CBII). A comprehensive rating of the internet presence of top construction brands based on over 50 variables. The rating identifies how effective a specific website domain is relative to other websites. The ratings are based on search engine data, website structure, traffic, social media [...]
Tags: Construction Brand Index, Construction Internet Rating, Internet Index, Internet Rating Service, Measuring Internet Effectiveness, top construction brands
Posted in Association News, Best Practices, Communications, Construction, Construction Marketing, Uncategorized
June 1, 2010
The Construction Marketing Association (CMA) announces a new research study initiative to identify how contractors and construction firms use media in the search and selection of construction related products and services. Based on requests from association members, the study will determine how such media as trade publications, search engines, blogs or forums, publisher websites and [...]
Tags: Construction, construction firm media usage, contractor media usage, facebook, Marketing, media research study, Research, social media, twitter, youtube
Posted in Association News, Construction Marketing, Research