Industrial PR
Rankin PR
Building Industry
1750+
Published Articles
87.5+
Million Impressions
$14,250,000+
Equivalent Advertising Cost
One of the most beneficial aspects of working with an industrial PR agency is that we specialize in niche industries and have excellent working relationships with industrial-focused media outlets. We have worked with companies through almost every industrial operation there is and we know the best communication channels to ensure your messaging resonates with your audience, and how to steer you to the best opportunities.
We have a proven approach for generating ideas for articles and marketing campaigns. After 10,000 published articles, we still find ways to create new stories about industrial companies.
Why partner with Rankin PR for your industrial PR
- Guaranteed media placements
- Build credibility, brand awareness, and shorten sales cycles
- Leverage the articles for content on all other digital channels
- Maximized media coverage due to our access and established relationships with the media
- Almost zero time and effort required from you and your team
The Industrial PR Niche
We have developed a niche within the industrial sector writing feature articles and getting those published as essentially contributing writers for top-tier trade publications. This allows you to control all aspects of the process and the content that gets published. By taking this approach, you can get one article published 10-15 times (or more).
Our feature articles have been published over 10,000 times in major industrial trade publications and have been read by an estimated 250+ million people worldwide.
Industry Insiders
From processing and HVAC to logistics and industrial automation, we know the industrial sector.
But don’t take our word for it. See a sample of our work in the chemical processing industry:
Corrosion is always a top concern for any chemical processing facility, be it the metal alloys that come in direct contact with caustic chemicals or the components that make up the rest of the processing system. Everything must be relied upon to withstand the highly corrosive atmosphere that surrounds a chemical plant operation.
A key piece of these chemical manufacturing systems are the industrial cooling towers used as an efficient way to reduce the heat created during the chemical reaction process. The process water absorbs the heat, such as that from water-jacketed reaction vessels, and transfers it to the cooling tower. The tower is then able to exhaust the heat into the atmosphere and return the cooled water in an open loop back through the process.
Galvanized-metal cooling towers, however, consistently fail the corrosion durability test at chemical plants and are increasingly being replaced with corrosion-resistant engineered-plastic cooling towers.
As an example, a major chemical manufacturer located in North Carolina spent decades replacing their metal towers with the same material without realizing there was a better alternative.
“We introduced them to engineered plastic towers back in 2010 which was installed at their main operating facility in the area,” says Chuck Parnell, sales engineer at Mechanical Equipment Company (MECO). “Prior to that, they had been using metal-clad towers and they were very unhappy about the extensive maintenance and downtime that was required for those units.”
MECO is an Industrial equipment supplier that designs, installs, and services mechanical and industrial equipment throughout North and South Carolina. They also engineer and fabricate process skid systems.
Industrial PR content
The content that your company produces has a huge impact on its success. We work with the editors in the industrial sector every day, and we know what type of content they are looking for as well as what they will and won’t publish. The key is to create content that promotes your business while at the same time engaging with the reader.
The public relations strategies we offer are tailored specifically for companies in the industrial world. With our team’s experience and expertise, you can rest assured that your company will be able to present itself in the best possible light when it comes time to publish articles.
It’s always the right time to make a good impression with industrial PR
Increasing exposure for your company is a lot like launching a rocket into space. It requires an enormous amount of energy.
Feature articles published in top-tier trade publications deliver the required ‘thrust’ needed to increase your impressions (or the number of times your target audience is exposed to your message). Feature articles increase visibility and attract new prospects at a much lower cost than just about any other form of marketing.
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How nice would it be if a prospect called you today ready to buy right then and there? Imagine if you could skip the cold calling, the spam emails, and the long sales cycles?
For industrial companies, feature articles that get published in 40-60 trade publications per year can make that happen. These articles educate your prospects, deliver brand credibility and feature your customers delivering word-of-mouth testimonials that help validate your solution.
This is a different way to leverage public relations and is proven to generate leads that are much further along the sales funnel.
Do you know where your next sale is coming from?
Right now, there is someone out there with a problem that you can solve. The problem for you is tracking that individual down. The good news is that you don’t have to track them down. You just need them to find you.
What better way to do that than for them to read about how you were able to solve similar challenges for others in a major trade publication (print and online)?
Feature articles, published in industry trade publications that tell the story of your successful projects with customers just happen to be the best way to find new prospects.
Put industrial PR to work today.
Content that keeps on giving
Our content has amazing residual value for industrial companies. Unlike an ad that has a limited run, our feature articles stay online forever, essentially. Plus, trade publications are where people are going for research. According to a recent report, these are the top 5 places industrial buyers go to research solutions:
- Digital publications – 74%
- Online training – 49%
- Vendor websites – 47%
- News aggregators – 37%
- Social media – 36%
The articles that publish in digital trade publications also provide high domain authority backlinks. This is worth more than water in the desert. Of all the SEO tricks used to get your site ranking higher, there are few things more important than backlinks. These links on other websites that direct traffic to your site are the most valuable tool in increasing domain authority and search engine rank.
The best way to get them is through earned media. Our earned media program has generated thousands of backlinks for our clients.
Plus, there is really no end to the way the content that we create can be repurposed for sales collateral, advertising, website content, social media campaigns, etc. The value of this alone boosts the value of our industrial PR services to stratospheric heights.
Public Relations Can’t Rely on Wires
Topping the list of industrial PR mistakes that many B2B operations make is failing to make an adequate investment. PR can be done in-house or through an agency. However, most attempts to garner earned media fall short of their potential because of either a lack of expertise in how to do it properly or an unwillingness to invest enough time and resources for it to succeed.
If the entirety of your public relations strategy consists of writing short press releases and distributing them through distribution services like PR W*b, PR NewsW*re, etc., then you are likely doomed to fail before you ever begin.
Industrial operations that truly invest in PR are much more likely to see a healthy return on their investment (ROI) than businesses that just “dabble” in public relations.
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Insightful, educational, and disruptive content has the power to change the way we think and behave
Are you driving change? Our clients are!
“Not long after an article from Rankin PR appeared in a major trade publication, we got a call that turned into a very significant sale for us,” says Todd Benadum, owner of ELSCO Transformers.
We’ve seen it time and time again; a company gets a huge media placement and the qualified sales leads start to flow. PR articles have been proven to help with short- and long-term lead generation. The key to this is making sure you’re constantly garnering media attention. It is the only way to ensure you are in the right place at the right time.
5 Ways Industrial Companies Can Grow Trust
People buy from those they trust, period.
So, how do you build trust with potential customers?
- Honesty – be transparent
- Commitment – say what you are going to do and then do it
- Relationships – look to build strong, long-term relationships
- Help – don’t sell, solve problems and provide value
- Communicate, communicate, communicate – in person, on video calls, by phone, or by email. However, you can go beyond this by generating consistent, high-quality content that does the communicating when you are not around.
Are you getting the press recognition you deserve?
Trade journals are providing a very powerful value opportunity. A recent report places trade journals as the single most important factor for a prospect gaining trust in an organization (behind only personal experience).
85% of industrial B2B marketers consider lead generation their #1 challenge.
When it comes to generating leads, quality is one of the most important criteria. Being able to generate high-quality leads that will convert into customers is difficult but when your list of 100 leads contains only one that is high-quality, you may end up just spinning your wheels.
Here are some strategies to help you generate more leads:
- Get more customer reviews and testimonials
- Use social media to connect with prospective customers
- Get published in trade publications: PR article placement is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness and brand trust with your customers.
We can actually help you with all three.