Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. 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. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. Are those predictions a little premature? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Online accounted for 7% of the B2B marketing mix in 2008. US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% Source : Forrester Research. 54% of CIOs prohibit the use of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook while at work. This is set to reach 12% by 2013.

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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. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Blog Phoenix Rising Twitter RebelBrown. Blog Start with a Lead Twitter BrianJCarroll. Blog WritingontheWeb Twitter PatsiBlogSquad. in January 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ). He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Refresh - Content gets stale over time. Change the title, heads and subheads and reword the bullets or key points.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

The primary ways industrial companies participate in social media today are through community/discussion sites for customers as well as similar internal sites for employees whereas adoption of newer social media tools like Twitter is very low at only 9% (Source: Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector by GlobalSpec ). All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

You have to take steps to direct traffic to your business blog by various means. Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. All Rights Reserved.

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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

Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases. Sometimes a generalist is better than a specialist – a business website redesign has many parts with mind-numbing details to keep a track of. All Rights Reserved.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%. The MarketingProfs research bears this out, as usage of primary social outposts is almost identical, regardless of budget. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Podcasts vs. YouTube. The statistical similarity shocks me.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Laura Ramos , a principal analyst at Forrester Research who focuses on business-to-business marketing trends and technology, says that services like Demandbase could prove useful, but adds that it may be hard to measure its impact on sales and marketing. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? ERP Internet Cust.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 Digital marketing is gaining traction in a number of industries, and business-to-business (B2B) marketers are in on that trend, too. The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter.

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In-Market : Find customers that are researching products and are actively considering buying a service or product like yours. With 675 million members in 200 countries globally, LinkedIn is the place to be if you’re a B2B (business to business) company. Reverse image search site TinEye has been around since 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

That was the key finding of a research study done by McKinsey & Co. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Your objectives must be driven by the former and not the other way around Creating high converting landing pages Here are the steps you should take for creating optimized landing pages that convert well: Do some research – don’t guess or go by your gut feel as to what your prospects are searching for. Place your logo at the top left.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 23rd, 2008 | 3 comments Papa’s got a brand new bag, maaan. Check… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 15th, 2008 | 3 comments Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 Digital marketing is gaining traction in a number of industries, and business-to-business (B2B) marketers are in on that trend, too. The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter. Learn more.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

5 Most Popular Blog Posts Content Marketing: How to get your subject matter experts on your corporate blog (7) Social Marketing: Twitter contest boosts followers 43% (6) Marketing Research: Cold, hard cash versus focus groups (4) Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? (4)

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

The 2008 recession permanently altered how companies think about measurement. But these investments were hard to measure, so spending shifted to highly targetable and measurable channels; IDC research shows that digital’s share of the marketing budget has risen from about 13% to 33% over the last five years. One Final Change.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2010

Why are consumers following brands on Twitter and Facebook? Which social media tool do businesses find most effective at reaching their target audiences? Each link is accompanied by a short illustrative snippet of the research findings. Market Research Findings from Around the Web. adults use Twitter monthly.

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