Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Here's a bunch. But lots of people do anyway.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Gary Thuerk, referred to as the father of spam, said “I never fill out any personal information on Web sites because it all goes into some kind of marketing database” in an interview with eSecurity Planet. Even in 2008, people turned to Facebook to complain about the annoying ad and its accompanying song. (I’ll

Rules 100

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Conversica

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our company was founded in 2007 and our product launched in 2009. Do you recall that this was during the 2008 Great Recession? But now, take your entire corpus of product and service information and provide it to your end-customers, using a Revenue Digital Assistant. All in all, I am really looking forward to the new year.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. They are very effective in delivering the right information to satisfy the diverse needs of the various stakeholders within your prospects’ companies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

> Information Outlook Online. > > Information Outlook Online. > > Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Outlook, Vol. Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information overload.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Ok I admit it I am a bit of a data geek but I cant help myself when I see stats like this in a recent study titled How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers 3.6 zettabytes of total information used by Americans in their homes far exceeds storage or transmission capacity.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

And they use different sources to get their information. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Using content or Inbound Marketing , you are able to make that key connection with your prospects by delivering specific content needed in order to make an informed decision. According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.”

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. There was actually another dated 6/01/2208, which I treated as 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site. Having a search function on your website is no longer an option, it is a requirement.

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Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 20, 2011

You are selling it for contact information. It is valuable information, convey that on your registration page. Include additional information for someone on the fence about buying it and clearly state that you protect and do not share contact information. It immediately looks like it is out-of-date information.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Ok I admit it I am a bit of a data geek but I cant help myself when I see stats like this in a recent study titled How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers. zettabytes of total information used by Americans in their homes far exceeds storage or transmission capacity. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor , you are going to need two critical pieces of information to conduct a content audit. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Brands you use every day, like Groupon, WhatsApp, and Uber incredibly got their start during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. And during a recession, information is going to be the most powerful asset you have. In fact, many brands have seen massive growth during times of economic crisis. What are your “nice-to-haves”?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Provide this information in plain English with compelling reasons for people to do business with you. Provide multiple ways to access relevant information with minimal clicks. As the decision maker or a business owner, you may not have the time to go hunting online for the right information or read a 50-page eBook.

Rules 60

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 3, 2009

B2B Marketing News SMEs flock to BT Tradespace 10 June 2009, 11:30 GMT BT Tradespace has announced 400 per cent year-on-year growth. Go to the Data Knowledge Bank CASE STUDY: Nortel and Segmetrix Using well-researched data to structure a marketing campaign CASE STUDY: Reed Exhibitions How personalisation created buzz for the 2008 IDMF HOW TO.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Capture visitor information – Implement a method to capture visitor information from your business blog. Install some kind of a sign-up form to capture basic contact information such as name, company name and email address. It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Conferences Talent Management Magazines Strategies 2009: Innovation to Impact. February 23rd — 25th, 2009 The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, California. Published May 2008. All talentmgt.com and Talent Management magazine content © Copyright 2008 MediaTec Publishing Inc. Back Issues. See More Events.

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Chris Koch

OCTOBER 30, 2009

And yet our latest annual survey of 355 buyers of complex IT solutions, How Customers Choose Solution Providers, 2009: The Importance of Personalization, Epiphanies, and Social Media, shows that the door to the C-suite is opening up. In fact, it’s hard for most of us to imagine these people using social media at all.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Thank you for a very informative post. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } DCaledonia July 8, 2010 at 9:10 am I had heard and read a lot about putting benefits above features but wasn’t sure how to do it. I will visit this blog regularly.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 5, 2022

2008 to 2009 – Facebook established engagement ads and also starts to offer advanced ad targeting. . The ads library also gives access to the ‘Ad Library Report’ which gives detailed information about the overall spendings and expenditure by particular advertisers. . 2012 – By now, it had over 1 billion users.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Once they find the correct part number, offer datasheets with performance characteristics, applications and tolerance information, include a way for the visitor to send a quick question to your engineering department and if applicable, add a “buy now” button to take advantage of online sales. Thanks for sharing!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. That’s good news but it also creates a credibility problem.

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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? Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. They can wax eloquently and endlessly about their solution. Your client may not know the nuances of the written word so guide him/her.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format. If nothing else, it makes the mobile sales force much much more productive.

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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. Their activities enrich and inform our products and services.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Do something charitable : In this 2008 pre-holiday post, Chris Brogan requests that instead of sending holiday cards, readers contribute to particular causes. What about concocting a funny or informative holiday newsletter about your industry or company? Does your organization support a fundraising or community cause?

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