{"id":1850,"date":"2012-11-12T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visualconstructionmarketing.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-01-12T04:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T04:50:51","slug":"seeing-building-products-through-the-eyes-of-an-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/seeing-building-products-through-the-eyes-of-an-architect\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Building Products Through the Eyes of an Architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Building Product Marketing Step One &#8211; Present Your Products with Pride<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2289\" alt=\"DFW375-weep\" src=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-1024x545.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-1024x545.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-800x426.jpg 800w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1-1080x575.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DFW375-weep1.jpg 1501w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architects are your customers and they are visual people. \u00a0They create visual experiences and they have spent most of their lives drawing things and viewing drawings done by others. \u00a0\u00a0If your drawings were done in 1995, they are going to know it immediately and they will certainly not have a wow experience viewing your products. \u00a0\u00a0More importantly, they will get the feeling that you do not take pride in your products. \u00a0Their enthusiasm for your products cannot exceed yours, so if you do not show them a polished image of your product, you won\u2019t sell them very well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2291\" alt=\"HH-CMU-16bb-1024x791\" src=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911-800x618.jpg 800w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HH-CMU-16bb-1024x7911-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architects, like many other business professionals work on a linear, time based fee structure. \u00a0When you get down to it, they are exchanging time for money. \u00a0Since they are largely responsible for deciding what products will be used on a project, in some ways they are professional shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Distilled down into it\u2019s simplest form, in the context of marketing building products you have a very visual person for whom time is of the essence shopping for your products. \u00a0\u00a0If the time required for the brain to make a positive visual impression is only a tenth of a second, why not make sure that when that architect sees your product, they see the most beautiful image possible?<\/p>\n<p>Before you start reading, researching and developing a thousand new ways to market your building products, take a step back and make sure the actualy drawings and details you show architects are making a positive impression. \u00a0 If they are not impressive, all the marketing speak and glossy brochures are going to be wasted.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Jason Yana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Product Marketing Step One &#8211; Present Your Products with Pride Architects are your customers and they are visual people. \u00a0They create visual experiences and they have spent most of their lives drawing things and viewing drawings done by others. \u00a0\u00a0If your drawings were done in 1995, they are going to know it immediately and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-product-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualconstructionmarketing.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}