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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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KEO Marketing Sponsors B2B Marketing Growth Event for BMA Phoenix

KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2016

“B2B Marketing Drives Business Growth: Learn from the Experts” Features Three Informative Sessions Lead by Globally Accomplished B2B Marketing Professionals. Titled “B2B Marketing Drives Business Growth: Learn from the Experts,” this special event will be held Tuesday, October 18, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. PHOENIX, Ariz.,

Advertising Agencies

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Marketing in Times of Uncertainty - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

APRIL 2, 2020

Posted by randfish Our work as marketers has transformed drastically in the space of a month. I think that now is the right time to talk about marketing in uncertain epochs like the one we're living through. And that means doing marketing. And I don't think that now is the right time for us to stop our marketing activities.

Paid Search Agency

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KEO Marketing’s Sheila Kloefkorn Re-Appointed President of Business Marketing Association’s Phoenix Chapter

KEO Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Local Marketing Expert to Help Guide Phoenix’s Only Association Devoted Exclusively to B2B Marketing Professionals. Kloefkorn is founder and president of KEO Marketing. The complete 2017/2018 board member roster of BMA Phoenix includes: Sheila Kloefkorn, President, KEO Marketing Inc. PHOENIX, Ariz.,

Advertising Agencies

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

B2B Memes

DECEMBER 6, 2011

And though he is now beginning to question its potential, he was an early advocate for content marketing as a promising new career path for journalists. As early as 1996, not long after the birth of the World Wide Web, he founded a business-to-business internet news service. Marketers claim to be journalists.

Content Marketing

Content Marketing Ethics Content Vendors

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. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Why is it important?

Optimization

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” Don’t sell.

Marketing Budget Creation

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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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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

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!

Relevance

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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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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?)

B2B Marketing

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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? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

Social Media

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

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

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. Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

Lead Generation

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? 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? What is it?

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in

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. Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

Planning

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

Secrets of Social Media Marketing â€“ a podcast with Paul Gillin

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

New tools become available to marketers and individuals alike nearly every week. Admittedly, Paul Gillin wrote this book for the 90% of marketers still trying to figure out social media, I can tell you it makes and excellent resource for even the most polished social media expert. Paul is an accomplished speaker and media spokesman.

Social Media

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. 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

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

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. You need to rethink your business model first and fast.

Marketing Automation Services

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Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

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? The four steps are: 1.

Creativity

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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? Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. There is no doubt that content curation is here to stay.

Curation

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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

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

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. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry.

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

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? 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.

Budget Programs

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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. He has outlined what is wrong with the theory of mass marketing.

Distribution

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AI-Driven Marketing Offers High Hopes to B2B Firms

Versium

AUGUST 14, 2018

Versium on Tuesday announced a partnership with LiveRamp , an Axiom company, to launch artificial intelligence-powered B2B audience segments,as part of a new business-to-business data management platform. The solutions are offered via the Software as a Service model. LiveRamp “brings the marketplace,” Matty said.

Enterprise Management

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AI-Driven Marketing Offers High Hopes to B2B Firms

Versium

AUGUST 14, 2018

Versium on Tuesday announced a partnership with LiveRamp , an Axiom company, to launch artificial intelligence-powered B2B audience segments,as part of a new business-to-business data management platform. The solutions are offered via the Software as a Service model. LiveRamp “brings the marketplace,” Matty said.

Enterprise Management

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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

ClickInsights: How B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content?

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? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts.

Work Management

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Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

Business Blogging

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Marketer of the Month Podcast – Cutting through the Clutter – “Content Marketing” from the POV of the person who coined the term: Joe Pulizzi

Outgrow

MAY 23, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! We recently interviewed Joe Pulizzi for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! The evolution of content marketing since 2001 – building and monetizing an audience. About our guest: Joe Pulizzi is one of the world’s top content marketing authorities.

Content Marketing

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

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

Buying Cycle

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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

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. " in the marketing mix.

Marketing Budget

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Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

CMS Development

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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. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory. There are plenty of charts and graphs too. You can download it from here (does require registration).

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation

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

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? .&# Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third.

Sales Cycle

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. 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.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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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B2B Marketing | Business to Business Marketing Information Portal

KEO Marketing Sponsors B2B Marketing Growth Event for BMA Phoenix

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Marketing in Times of Uncertainty - Whiteboard Friday

KEO Marketing’s Sheila Kloefkorn Re-Appointed President of Business Marketing Association’s Phoenix Chapter

Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

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

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

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

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Secrets of Social Media Marketing â€“ a podcast with Paul Gillin

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

AI-Driven Marketing Offers High Hopes to B2B Firms

AI-Driven Marketing Offers High Hopes to B2B Firms

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

ClickInsights: How B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content?

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Marketer of the Month Podcast – Cutting through the Clutter – “Content Marketing” from the POV of the person who coined the term: Joe Pulizzi

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

Business Value of Social Networking

2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

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

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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