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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

Social Media

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Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

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.

Social Media

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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? I paid a visit to GlobalSpec and downloaded their Trends in Industrial Marketing 2010 report.

Social Media

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Webinars

How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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?

Social Media

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

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. However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective.

Marketing Budget Creation

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Solution: Curate content and make it easily searchable. Not so fast!

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site.

Optimization

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

Planning

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Definitely not.”

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. 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.

Relevance

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

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.

B2B Marketing

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

Buying Cycle

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

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. You get the point.

Work Management

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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.

Webinar Metrics

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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new.

Curation

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

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. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

Sales Cycle

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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.”

Buying Cycle

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Content Creation Made Easy

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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

Planning

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

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.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

I keep these checked to avoid any duplicate content issues. Now that you have a better idea of optimizing your WordPress blog to attract traffic, don’t forget, it is your content that will create fans and convert them into customers. Spend 80% of your time writing engaging content and the rest of your time on optimizing your blog.

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics.

Lead Generation

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

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. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 The first Aflac duck debuted in 2000.

Planning

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Business Value of Social Networking

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.

Social Networks

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

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. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

Distribution

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

Budget Programs

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

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.

Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

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?

Marketing Websites

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

Buying Cycle

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

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?

Sales Cycle

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter.

B2B

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite.

CMS Development

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

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. army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign? What do you want the post to do for your company?

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Email Marketing

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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

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?

Rules

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

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.

Lead Generation

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

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?

Sales Management

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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.”

Features

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! Achinta Mitra July 19, 2010 at 1:47 pm Eric, Thank you for posting your thoughtful comments. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

Marketing Automation Services

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! What is the key to shortening the buy cycle? How can you accomplish all that? My take: Sharpen your listening skills.

Buying Cycle

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Webinars

Trending Sources

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Webinars

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Content Creation Made Easy

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

Business Value of Social Networking

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

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