B2B & Digital Marketing Strategy fro Green Plains Renewable Energy

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Green Plains Renewable Energy Govind Menon Vignesh Subramaniam Ramkumar Ganesan

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As a part of the B2B marketing course the team had to conduct a project which involved self-learning in Digital Marketing techniques, analysis of the chosen company's current B2B and digital marketing strategy, the online presence. Then we had to prepare a strategy and methods in which they can improve the current digital presence.

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Green Plains Renewable Energy

Govind Menon

Vignesh Subramaniam

Ramkumar Ganesan

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About GPRE

• Vertically-integrated ethanol producer

• Ethanol | Agribusiness |

Distiller Grains | Corn Oil

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Financials

• Revenue - $3 million• EBITA - $1 million• Market Capitalization-

$229.4 Million

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Ethanol Industry • Produced by fermentation of corn grains• Purchased mostly by relationships with the distributor• Major players:

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Current Online Presence

• SEO • Website• Blogs• LinkedIn• Forums• Facebook

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SEO• Must expand its presence in search engines like Bing, Yahoo, etc.

(apart from Google)

• Alexa ranker result - 2,826,348

• Using all possible keywords, the order of website listing in search engines like Yahoo.com, is 4.

• No ads on Google about Green Plains being Ethanol distributors

SEO

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Website

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Social Networking

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Social Networking (contd)

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Social Networking (cont.)

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Forums

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Main competitor:

• Archer Daniel Midland

- Most Admired Company in the Food Production Industry, 2011Fortune Magazine

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Their Website

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Social Networking

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Social Networking (cont.)

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Area’s of Improvement

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SEO

• Use of appropriate keywords in website

• Google Ads in the SERP

• Use tools like SEOMoz, Hubspot

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Website – From Grader.com

• Create a blog for company• Setup a 301 direct• Create a mobile style-sheet for website

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Website (cont.)

• Add a landing page with a conversation form

• Share links to landing pages with forms on Twitter

• Get more mentions on Twitter by being more conversational

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• Landing page of the company’s website needs to be improved:

Slide Show showcasing products

Tilt-viewer – Elegant and Innovative

• Must Have: Customer account login.

This account must also have information about the product for ‘key’ customers.

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Social Media

• More relevant news about products and industry

• Should represent Thought Leadership

• Tools to engage customers

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Forums

• Influence distributor network to create online presence

• Create Ad space in important websites customers visit

• Membership in these forums to promote your product

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THANK YOU!

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