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Your Reps Are Doing All the Work
No rep can be everywhere all the time. When your lead and sales engines relies solely on reps, you're going to miss the architect who's researching options at midnight on a Saturday. You're going to have to choose between having a presence at a trade show or doing a lunch and learn the same day in a different city. And lead follow-up will be constrained by how much time a rep has available in a given day.
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You Don't Sound Like You Understand Architects
When architects look for building materials, they're looking for solutions to problems. They're also looking for product details and proof it works as intended. If your digital presence isn't optimized for the way architects search, architects won't find you. And if they do, and you don't offer spec-ready downloads, they'll specify the competitor who makes it easier for them to get the information they want.
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You're Invisible Between Trade Shows
Trade shows can be a little bit like summer camp: everyone's excited about their new best friend (or building material), they leave promising to keep in touch, and they never speak again. Without a post-show and between-show strategy, you lose all the trade show momentum that you invested in.
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Architects Can't See Your Product in the Real World
Gorgeous studio photography of your product doesn't build trust with architects. They're looking forl solutions for buildings designed to outlive them. They need to see how your product looks installed: how it weathers, and how it performs. If your image library doesn't include field photography, most architects will view your product as a risk.
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You're Not Leveraging Your Specification Wins
Architects trust other architects. If you're specified by a respected architecture firm, that is one of the most powerful credibility signals in this industry. Many brands don't know which architecture firms are industry leaders and most talk about the project owner, not the architect.
We're not always at liberty to name our clients, but we can tell you what we've helped them accomplish.
From Zero to
National Presence
We worked with a specialty facade manufacturer entering the U.S. market with no installed projects and no American brand recognition. Through a disciplined marketing program, including digital presence, architect-facing content, specification support, and targeted outreach, they built a national project portfolio spanning healthcare, higher education, hospitality, and commercial. That kind of growth does not happen by accident.
Cracking the U.S. Market
for a Global Brand
An international window and glazing manufacturer with a strong European reputation needed to establish itself in the American luxury market. We developed and implemented a "marketing to American architects and owners" program that resulted in significant new installations of their high-end product line, in a market where they had previously had almost no presence.
The Sales
Prospecting Engine
Read the full case study on how we built a resilient sales prospecting engine to generate qualified leads so the firm could stop relying solely on rep activity.
We build marketing programs that get your product in front of the right architects before the project is even on the boards. We educate them and equip them with what they need to make specifying your product the obvious choice.
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We become experts in your brand and your products.
We learn everything we can about who you need to sell to, what influences their decision, how your product fits into the specification process, and what sales challenges you're currently facing.
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We build the pre-meeting sales framework.
Reps should spend their time talking with prospects who already have a basic understanding of your products. Our system makes your products easier to finf and easier to learn about, so that by the time a rep makes contact, they're able to move beyond the basics.
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We equip your reps with sales collateral and systems.
Your reps can't follow an architect around until they agree to specify you. Our content infrastructure includes email sequences, social content, spec-ready assets, and campaign materials that extend the life of the sales rep conversation.
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We track what matters for your sales goals.
In a world of infinite data points, we measure the things that move the needle for what you want to achieve. If something isn't working, we say so and we fix it.
The Building Materials Marketing Scorecard is a one-page self-assessment. In less than five minutes, rate your program across four key areas and find out where your gaps are.
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Yes, and we understand the dynamics of that model. Because we work with both brands and dealers, we know how to align marketing programs without causing friction between those two groups.
We provide in-house marketing teams with AEC-specific strategy and specifier-facing content that requires deep industry knowledge. We offer a niche expertise that is hard to come by in most internal marketing departments.
This is one of our specific areas of strength. The American specification process and distribution channels, and the way architects research and evaluate materials, are different from European and other global markets. We help multinational brands navigate those differences.
We work with building materials manufacturers ranging in size from 9 employees to 2,500. If your primary challenge is marketing to architects, owners, and contractors, we're likely a good fit.
