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Good Marketing with Stephanie
The Official LANC Podcast
This isn't just another marketing podcast. Good Marketing with Stephanie explores and analyzes the macro and micro challenges facing marketers at all levels today. Your host, Stephanie Pryor, is an entrepreneur, marketing consultant, and speaker on the trends that are shaping the future of the marketing industry.
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Manufacturing Marketing Trends: Industry Shifts and Strategies for Success
The 2025 Industrial Marketing Summit revealed a clear message—AI, branding, and community engagement are key to staying competitive in manufacturing. As workforce shifts, AI adoption, and rebranding needs accelerate, now is the time to adapt. Discover actionable strategies to keep your company ahead in this rapidly evolving industry.

How Industrial Brands Can Embrace Modern Marketing
At the 2025 Industrial Marketing Summit, industry leaders made one thing clear: manufacturers that invest in branding, thought leadership, and digital engagement are the ones seeing long-term success. In this post, we explore key takeaways from the event—including why trust is your biggest marketing asset, how to overcome leadership resistance, and where AI fits into the industrial marketing landscape. If you’re struggling to scale your marketing efforts or don’t know where to start, this guide will help you take the first step.

Startup PR: Alternatives to a Standard Retainer
When every dollar spent on PR counts, use these tips to find an agency payment structure that works for your startup.

After the Interview: How to Stay Connected with Your Media Contacts
You've crafted the perfect pitch and connected with a journalist—now what? Building strong media relationships doesn’t stop at the interview. In this post, we’ll share actionable tips on how to organize your media contacts, engage with them on social media, and maintain a lasting professional relationship. From follow-ups to thank-yous, these strategies will help you turn one-time interactions into long-term media connections.

Privacy and Marketing: How to Navigate a Privacy-First World
In honor of Data Privacy Week 2024, we wrote about how marketers can push forward in a privacy-first world, despite the disappearance of third-party cookies and increasingly strict regulations on how consumer data is collected, stored, and used.

A New Era of B2B Marketing: Experts Predict 2024’s Top Trends
Experts in content, demand generation, SEO, and PR share their outlook on B2B marketing trends in 2024, including the influence of AI and changing expectations for marketers.

B2B Brand Marketing for Manufacturers: What You Need to Know
The industrial sector isn’t exempt from online marketing. Discover why brand marketing is crucial for the manufacturing industry, the key channels to leverage, and how partnering with an industrial marketing agency can drive long-term success.

How to Talk to Your Boss about the Value of PR
Discover how to navigate your conversation about the ROI of PR with skeptical senior management. Explore the benefits of public relations, from short-term gains to long-term brand authority, and learn how to demonstrate the undeniable value it brings to your marketing strategy.

3 Qualities to Look for in an Education PR Agency
Discover the essential qualities you need to look for in an education PR agency. Transparency, expertise, and social media savvy can drive your institution's success.

Why Threads Should Prioritize Discovery Features
Threads has real potential to take down Twitter. But, it still leaves much to be desired—especially in terms of discovery features.

Avoid These Data-Driven Marketing Mistakes
Marketers today are relying too much or too little on data. Both are symptoms of marketing without a cohesive strategy. In this article, you’ll learn about the pitfalls of vanity metrics, and how to holistically approach marketing strategy and assess performance.
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Check out the latest insights and ideas from Stephanie Pryor, a marketing guru and founder of LANC Marketing, LLC.