Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

One of the many goals of B2B marketing is to continuously forge better customer relationship. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content? Get Customers. Get Customers. Get Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers. They are: Buyer Personas – deep insights on the people who buy your products and services Buying Process – the steps buyers go through to acquire your products and services Buyer personas go a lot deeper than just demographics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. Instead of thinking of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as lead generators, use them to increase awareness and drive traffic to your website.

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

It is also very likely that an ad alone is not going to engage you enough to purchase the item or service. It is a blog post that informs you of industry changes or a video on social media that reveals a customer reviewing the brand. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Is it so outdated that you avoid sending prospects and customers to your site? It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. It is all about the customer and not you and your company.

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Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. Are you pre-selling a product or service? How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

How do you shift the focus from you or your company to your prospects and customers? Customize them to suit your particular product line, which makes it much easier to specify and buy your valves. Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Those are my five top lessons for industrial marketing to attract engineers and turn them into loyal customers. What’s on your list that’s not on here?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper outlining how Bitcoin could work as a decentralized digital currency. One of the biggest hurdles cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies face is educating potential customers. Medium.com is a growing blogging platform built by Evan Williams, the founder of Twitter. Customer support.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. The four steps are: 1.

Creativity 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. You may be too close to the forest to see the trees, sometimes you may have to ask your current customers for their input. My take: Sharpen your listening skills.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Important caveat: Social isn’t just for ‘generating leads’ but can be used for many, many things, such as improving customer experience, reducing support costs, and improving products. Revenue is the most needed one now, hence my addressing it here. Revenue is the most needed one now, hence my addressing it here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The salesperson may have to spend a lot of time re-educating the customer and correcting misunderstandings Customers are prisoners of their own experiences (we all are). Today’s B2B salesperson must bridge the gap from the experience of others to the specific and unique needs and priorities of the customer.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. As content strategists, we can build a standard format for content that includes page title, short description of the product or service, what problem it solves, who would benefit the most and additional pairs of product benefits and features.

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Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2010

This is where the human connection is made… at the point where the company connects with its customers in a meaningful way. These are the folks that have the knowledge and experience that the market is looking for.

Social Media 40

Social Media Paid Search Agency Copywriting B2B Thought Leadership 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Detailed information is vital for spotting potential customers.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

Twitter: Maximize Your Travel In the past, I had blogged about why I use Twitter so it’s exciting for me to provide a success story for Twitter. I of course lead an amazing team, but this new position requires me to be active with as many customers in my segment as possible to support my team. Beautiful day!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. As a business owner your goal needs to be having no gap at all, optimizing every point of contact with your customer.&#

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Blog B2BContentMarketing Twitter SeamusWalsh. in January 2008. Get Customers. Ardath Albee. Seamus Walsh.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Leads 100

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Sales reps from traditional PR distribution services were even quoted as saying, “there’s a reason it’s free.&# – implying that it doesn’t perform well.

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Social Media SEO Marketing Websites PR 115

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2009

Have Some Popular Tips Most Improtant Questions To Prepare For Social Media Marketing Interview Twitter Tips For Local Business 10 Important Points to Improve Ad Quality Score in Adwords Is facebook worthy for PPC? But, B2B is to impress the business clients and not the common customers. So, why to beat about the bush??

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Search Engine Marketing Paid Search Agency Search Marketing Adsense 40

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. Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start.

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Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox? How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your customers and prospects are talking about you online. Be where your customers are.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? FTC Disclosure Requirements – The recent changes from the FTC don't just apply to bloggers; rather, anyone who is compensated for promoting a product/service.

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2015

This technique, in conjunction with the growth of popular social media websites, allows modern businesses to delegate some of these brand-building responsibilities to an unlikely voice -- their customer. Customers across the country were asked to doodle on their Starbucks cups and submit pictures as entries. 3) Starbucks. 5) Target.

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