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Covid-19 vs B2B Marketing – The Clear Winner

With restrictions of movement in place for the fight against COVID-19, it presents an enormously challenging situation for B2B Companies, in the absence of live events, conferences and face to face interactions, trade shows, and exhibitions.

But it also presents an opportunity in terms of driving demand through digital strategies, this is the medium to utilize to reach customers and clients who are homebound. We have assimilated a list of 10 best practices that B2B’s should consider so as to take control of the present health and logistics crisis.

  1. Game Plan– Though the future implications for businesses are uncertain and unclear, it is time to game plan the long term implications of the current situation on B2B businesses.
  2. Digital is the clear winner here– Updating your digital channels is the need of the hour. Ensure that your digital data on the web is up to date, relevant and fact based. Make sure you have genuine links to medical information for guidance.
  3. Focus on Digital Strategies– B2B companies would need to move into social marketing, content marketing, SEO to target customers who can be found online and devising approaches and tactics for your success.
  4. Live Social Platforms- Achieve better eye-catching content and more targeted campaigns that improves your feed in the news feed algorithm by going live using Facebook, LinkedIn, Instragam and Periscope.
  5. Choose videos over PowerPoint- Videos are a good option for showcasing your product and it is an alternate for in person sales.Converting your PowerPoint presentations into videos to reach potential customers is a wise thing to use the digital channel for.
  6. Podcasts- Digital audio files are the fastest growing content format in B2B. They are a good medium to reach out with more information about your products to clients and also connect with them remotely.
  7. Video Conferencing tools- These are the best for sales meeting presentations like Zoom which every B2B should give a shot at, helping teams to meet up through voice or video calls.
  8. AI Chat Bots – They can be a great substitute for less staff due to sickness, we are moving towards a market where 85% of interaction takes place without human intervention, so this is the best time to utilize AI Bots for Sales and Marketing activities and they can never get sick.
  9. Virtual reality – VR is the tool for live events, demos, trade shows, and exhibitions and ‘walk-throughs’ that can’t take place in person where group-buying is not encouraged. Augmented reality gives your customers the ability to visualize your products or trade show displays remotely using their smartphone.

In addition to getting through your sales and marketing pipeline, opting for the above practices will help keep COVID-19 in check due to digital collaboration that doesn’t require physician human to human interaction.

Also long after we have defeated COVID-19 and things get back to normal, eCommerce businesses will realize the potential in digital channels compared to ground events and adapt them as part of their long term marketing plan.

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Event Participation Update from Altius Technologies

 

The world is currently facing the most unforeseen disaster and it has challenged all businesses right on their face.

It is important that we all stay together and fight back this virus by doing one simple yet difficult process of socially distancing ourselves.

We at Altius are taking every step possible to challenge the Corona Virus and as a first step, we have all our employees working from home thus socially distancing themselves yet all  deliveries commitments to our clients are unaffected. 

From the Sales & Marketing team, we have taken a cautious decision of canceling all our overseas travel and withdrawing from all the events that we had planned.

It was a tough decision to make, given the fact that the decision of participation was made almost a year in advance, but we felt responsible towards the society, therefore the decision had to be taken.

What we will really be missing out are the meetings and interactions that we could have had with our prospects, customers and fellow industry experts.

But, to compensate all that we will be missing,

here’s what we were planning to position at the expos and conferences,

Product Content Transformation

Altius has been a pioneer in transforming any ordinary website into a rich high performing and an Inquiry Generating Engine thereby directly contributing to revenue generation.

We have a proven track record of improving revenue by about 30-40%

We could assess your website and give you a clear roadmap to transform your website into a high-performance website.

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Unifi-I

Speed means business today. It becomes even more imperative in 2020 for revenue-generating websites like eCommerce stores to acquire the right technology and tools to improve the latency and load time, which we call having ‘sub-second websites’.

Switching to a sub-second website is even more crucial for the average eCommerce website

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that relies on paid search traffic to attract new and return business. The site speed not only impacts SEO searches but has a profound effect on conversion rates as well.

In fact, a study has found an average lift of 15-30% in conversion rates by having a sub-second website for your eCommerce.

We are currently offering a free subscription of Unifi-i for the first 3 months. 

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In addition to these two primary solutions, we also are  planning to position the following other services and solutions,

  1. AI-based Auto-Classification of Products – Easy and unified shopping experience for customers 
  2. Most cost-effective PIM implementation – Accurate and Consistent data that enrich customer experience 
  3. Connectors between Systems – Integrating different applications and technologies with ease

We look forward to meeting all of you after we have successfully passed this unfortunate time.

In the meantime, we are always up for a Zoom meeting, at a time that is convenient for both of us.

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Inevitable

According to a Buddhist legend, there once was a woman who sought out the Buddha after losing her baby to illness.

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Intelligence

One afternoon, some people saw an old woman looking for something outside of her hut. “What’s going on?

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Keys to a Contented Life

Keys to a Contented Life

Gautama Buddha was sitting under a banyan tree. One day, a furious Brahmin came to him and started abusing him.

The Brahmin thought that Gautama Buddha would reciprocate in the same manner, but to his utter surprise, there was not the slightest change in the expression on his face.

Now, the Brahmin became more furious. He hurled more and more abuses at Buddha. However, Gautama Buddha was completely unmoved. Actually there was a look of compassion on his face. Ultimately the Brahmin was tired of abusing him. He asked, “I have been abusing you like anything, but why are you not angry at all?”

Gautama Buddha calmly replied, “My dear brother, I have not accepted a single abuse from you. “

“ But you heard all of them, didn’t you? “The Brahmin argued half-heartedly. 

Buddha said, “I do not need the abuses, so why should I even hear them?”

Now the Brahmin was even more puzzled. He could not understand the calm reply from Gautama Buddha. Looking at his disturbed face, Buddha further explained, “All those abuses remain with you. “

” It cannot be possible. I have hurled all of them at you, “the Brahmin persisted.

Buddha calmly repeated his reply, “But I have not accepted even a single abuse from you! Dear brother, suppose you give some coins to somebody, and if he does not accept them, with whom will those coins remain? “

The Brahmin replied, “If I have given the coins and not needed by someone, then naturally they would remain with me.”

With a meaningful smile on his face, Buddha said, “Now you are right. The same has happened with your abuses. You came here and hurled abuses at me, but I have not accepted a single abuse from you. Hence, all those abuses remain with you only. So there is no reason to be angry with you. “

The Brahmin remained speechless. He was ashamed of his behavior and begged for Buddha’s forgiveness.

Explanation:

Inner calmness and peace are keys to contented life. Live life as per your goals and ambition in life.

You know who you are and what you want in life, so don’t respond to what person said about you in anger. Control your anger with patience and calmness.

That is the biggest Strength of Wise men. Never take someone for granted, Hold every person Close to your Heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones. These meaning insights help us to tide through this COVID-19 pandemic situation that the world is going through.