Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. (See Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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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?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

This question on a recent LinkedIn discussion thread for the Technology Marketing Community reminded me of when, a couple years ago, I delivered a presentation at the 2008 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Summit. This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 12:29 pm and is filed under Email Marketing. United States License.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? First was the post on the Media Budget Ratio (MBR) for a B2B company. They recently put out a 2010 Budget and Allocations trends document which surveyed the membership to gave you the chart above.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Fifty-six percent of the participants were primarily B2B marketers and the remaining 44% were B2C. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. The study also revealed that B2B marketers that measured ROI were better able to track leads to marketing touchpoints.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. The SalesPulse survey also reported that B2B sales professionals found an inbound lead’s location more important than revenues and the number of employees.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. To get the most from your content, embrace the 7 “R&# s of B2B Marketing Content Planning: Re-use - ideas for content development must be expanded to create multiple assets. Who has more “Rs&# to add to the list?

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 6, 2010

asked Dave Fleet "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" Blog Dave Fleet Twitter davefleet. " Dave Fleet's Marketing Prediction for 2010. Dave Fleet's Marketing Action for 2010. 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions.

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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

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? How can industrial and B2B marketers apply the same creative problem solving lessons in engaging with their prospects and customers? Share your thoughts.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 7, 2011

Just 5% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2008; by the fall of last year, that figure was 87%, and Twitter is now adding 300,000 new users per day. Facebook added more than 150 million new users in 2010. link on Twitter. Social media will become targetable.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. In general, however, the chances any one Twitter follower sees any specific update from you is minimal. Very, very few.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. It is a balancing act between making your B2B blog too narrow in focus and standing out from the crowded field of bloggers.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I remember my first guitar lesson, in 2008, where my tutor taught me a simple phrase to remember string names – EADGBe, in the right order. My guitar tutor taught me the mnemonic to remember string names in 2008. Let us know on LinkedIn , Facebook , or Twitter. The answer is by telling stories. Image source: Sparkol.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

More than 200 million numbers had already been added to the Do Not Call registry in 2010. Even in 2008, people turned to Facebook to complain about the annoying ad and its accompanying song. (I’ll Share your view in the comments below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ). Do you like receiving phone calls at dinner time?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses. Take a look at this video and decide for yourself.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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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 21, 2010

Now, that doesn’t sound very different from most b2b and industrial marketers but wait till you hear/read about the phenomenal results that Holly and her team have produced. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. I paid a visit to GlobalSpec and downloaded their Trends in Industrial Marketing 2010 report.

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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. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!). How can I help you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 20, 2013

Brian Solis’ Future of Business : Over 40% of the companies that were at the top of the Fortune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010. And please follow along on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Google+ or Subscribe to the B2B Marketing Insider Blog for regular updates. Thanks for your help!

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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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? You'll see a line that resembles this: © 2008-09. | I've just changed mine to © 2008-10. Read the fine print. How can I help you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Therefore B2B and industrial marketers continue to favor email marketing over other direct marketing channels. Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. I was just introduced to you and Scott via twitter. link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.] If he’ll be near you, check it out. Appreciate the recommendations of other authors,too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. Of course, I could have tried using scare tactics by saying, “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs” but today’s industrial and B2B marketers are too smart and resourceful to fall for that line. Is that a good thing?

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