Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

In 2008, revenues were up to $16.6 This entry was posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 11:45 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media , Uncategorized. The first Aflac duck debuted in 2000. The company reported $9.7 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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Valasys

AUGUST 30, 2019

Escaping the limelight & focus of the marketing world, quickly grew the Gen Z – the generation born between 1996 & 2010. According to ibtimes.com, Gen Z value productivity & whereas their preceding generation works on an average only on 3 screens at a time, Gen Z can work on 5 screens simultaneously. Wrapping It UP.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Professor Quelch provides the example of Intel and its very successful advertising campaign “Intel Inside.” Definitely not.” Analytics is the new marketing creative!

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. Don’t sell.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. Non-core functions such as sales and distribution should be outsourced.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Click here to read 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Adding value to industrial website development and marketing I am going to illustrate my point about part DiY and part professional help by using three real-life examples from my own industrial marketing business. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Score this lead according to your preset BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timing) criteria to determine if they are “sales-ready.” Your content also needs to perform another key function.

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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. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. See charts below). The second study done by GetResponse (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. BTW, this post is a working example of content curation. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

B2B marketing is a monolithic & ever-transcending field & thriving in a knowledge-based economy takes a lot of effort – particularly in terms of delivering the value with the help of content. Drift is the world’s leading conversational marketing platform. How to create content that the audience will find valuable?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive.

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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

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. How about you, do you see the disconnect?

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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? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } 7 | Industrial Marketing Today Previous post: Business Value of Social Networking Next post: 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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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. Lead them to it. Both are free to download and will automate some of the SEO chores.

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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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