Lab automation uses instrumentation to perform automated laboratory processes, requiring minimal human input. This growing industry is now made up of many technologies, using robotics, computers, and software.
As an innovation driver for research and development in chemistry and the neighboring scientific disciplines, lab automation serves application areas as diverse as pharmaceuticals, drug discovery, and food. The sheer range of companies within the life science sector opens vast opportunities to target potential customers.
Increasing efficiency and flexibility, minimizing costs, and saving precious time are essential for high-throughput laboratory work. Yet, as the marketplace becomes increasingly competitive, highlighting the benefits and USPs of your product or technology becomes more challenging. Content marketing for life sciences requires a strategy that simultaneously explains automation systems and helps potential customers understand how it will help them personally.
This blog will outline how to utilize life science content marketing to reach audiences using lab automation by ensuring each piece of content gets to the right people at the right point in their buying journey.
Take a look at our lab automation audience
Content marketing for a lab automation audience
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Aim to educate your audience rather than just sell to them. As scientists and academics, your audience responds to facts, figures, and objective information rather than a persuasive oversell.
Our E-Book ‘The State of Scientific Purchasing 2022’ results suggest that manufacturer's websites influence 89% of respondents and that search engines influence 81%. These results highlight the importance of content marketing and the need to invest in creating the right content for its purpose.
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Awareness content
Top of funnel content is your broadest content, intending to attract customers and gain brand awareness.
A good example of awareness content is an article discussing the benefits of your product in a more general sense. This AZoM article discusses how lab automation is rising and the transition to automated equipment in today’s clinical laboratory.
Awareness content article example
The draw of this article is not the products themselves but the application of automation across the chemistry field and what this signals for the future. Yet, the benefits of the machinery used are transparent and open a pathway of inquiry for companies whose work may benefit from a similar innovation, building trust in the products and services discussed.
Awareness content: Articles, news stories, explainer videos, blog posts, slide shares, infographics, market research.
Consideration content
You could lead the target audience, having engaged with the news article above, to look at the application notes addressing where the technology can be used.
This content differentiates the members of your audience who are potential customers and include multiple calls to action to capture the data of interested parties.
Again the content should be educational while application-specific. You are encouraging the progression to decision-making but not pushing with your marketing strategies.
Consideration content: Application notes, white papers, eBooks, how-to articles
Decision-making content
Your prospective buyer knows that your product can benefit them, but they still need that final push to make a purchasing decision.
Product profiles provide customers with the specifications and product features they need to understand before making their final decision. It is crucial at this step to ensure that your customer can find the content they need easily. Our tip is to embed videos and add links to your product profile to navigate the user to relevant case studies, interviews, and testimonials to stand out against other life science companies.
Decision-Making Content: Product profiles, customer testimonials, case studies, thought leadership interviews.
The key to content creation is to consider where your customer is in the buying journey and guide them through your content marketing strategy with relevant information to the point you want them to reach: Purchasing.
Life Sciences Marketing Resources
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