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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

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The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that. These statistics are easily and readily available from your dashboard in Google Analytics. In Google Analytics look at Traffic Sources > Keywords.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

By increasing the number of indexed pages in Google (Blog pages Google includes in its database of pages considered for ranking for specific keywords). For every 50 to 100 pages of indexed pages in Google, leads achieved double digit growth as seen in the chart below. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Top 10 Industrial Marketing Posts of 2011

Industrial Marketing Today

Not all the posts were written in 2011, one was way back from 2008. I looked at my Google Analytics for the entire year and have selected the top ten blog posts using a combination of Pageviews, Engagement and Social Sharing data to determine the ranking. Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.

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

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Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So I Googled “content curation&# and lo and behold, it returned 77,600 results. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word. Hmmm…not very satisfying. I hit the mother lode! All Rights Reserved.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

Here’s an example from my post titled “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” Here’s my description tag from the same post (NOTE: it is not the default first paragraph): Don’t go crazy stuffing keywords in your page’s keywords tag because Google does not use the keywords Meta tag in page ranking.