Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. The first is a diagnostic tool and the second one measures the health of the business. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. I should know — I am an engineer too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You may be surprised by how different some of those terms are from those used within your company. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Or are you trying to position your company or yourself (consultants and coaches) as a thought leader to influence C-level execs and decision makers? Create content – It is easy to get bogged down with the design aspects of a company blog. That’s all you need for now.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

domain to enhance your company's web presence. As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. Take Advantage of.TV

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. But I consider that optional.)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? I will spare Jay’s blog the list of the 70 videos we did, outside of YouTube, since most of them were made before YouTube existed. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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readwrite

JANUARY 15, 2009

Southwest is one of those companies that seems so “with it” when it comes to this digital age we live in. They have a blog , a Twitter account , a Facebook page , a flickr account , and a YouTube channel. Several companies that should have apps, don’t. So why no iPhone app? What’s going on with that?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We have many good tools at our disposal right now we could be putting to use. With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Companies must also uphold privacy laws. I've just changed mine to © 2008-10.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# “We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&#

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Thus, they have a built in “Events&# tool where you can plug in anything out of the ordinary, and that occurrence will show up in your integrated Swix reporting. New YouTube video that goes viral. A new product launch.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically. If you update your company's Facebook page about latest happenings, or create a YouTube video, or write a blog post, the conversation comes AFTER the content is sent out, not before.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. The only thing that’s really certain, is that eventually the online tools will change. If you have a tools-focused strategy, you don’t really have a strategy. The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Podcasts vs. YouTube. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too. Yes, social media applies to B2B.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Put it on YouTube of course. How did I know that?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. The best way to beat resistance to new tools is to use them and show impact.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Social Mention (or a paid social media listening package like Radian6 , if you have one) Go to www.socialmention.com and search for your company or product name (in quotes), and set the pull-down to “all.&#

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. How much can you afford to spend on the tool? • based on budget or schedule) Once you’ve answered those questions you can compare major social media monitoring tools.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. link] jaybaer The measure of a man (or company) isn't how they handle themselves when times are good, but when times are bad.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens was asked about the contradiction of a services company providing helpful videos at a conference where I spoke. I think some companies do a good job of this…Comcast to name one.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2018

To give you an idea of how to start growth hacking your marketing plan, we talked to four growth marketers from some of the top tech companies in Boston. Wistia decided to test this hypothesis by creating a new video that gave a tour of the media page and taught users how to use the Wistia tools. Here's the old video: Experiment Plan.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM. / They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. 2008 Web Predictions. Posted by: Paul Tran | May 21, 2008 12:32 PM. Posted by: Jeroen de Miranda | May 21, 2008 1:33 PM.

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