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). Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

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. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not. Johnson (GPJ). That was the good news part of the study.

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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.”

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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.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

22-26 September 2008, Berlin, Germany. Submission deadline of tentative abstract: 12 June 2008. Submission deadline for paper submission: 23 June 2008. PROLEARN Summer School 2008 - Call for Participation. Deadline for applications is March 15th, 2008. News as RSS Feed. to the APOSDLE Website.

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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? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard. For example, “content creation.”

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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.”

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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.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2013

Charlie Kautz , Content Marketer at TaylorMade Golf , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss delivering fresh story-telling content across several platforms every week, following the PGA Tour around the country, and what it’s like having the best job in social media. The RSS feed is: [link]. Tweetable Moments.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

. … a knowledge worker’s waste blog … Skip to content. A recent article in Fast Company. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. © by Brett Miller 2003-2008. |. Posts RSS & Comments RSS. Home Video Games: Future of education or harmful addiction?

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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.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

… a knowledge worker’s waste blog … Skip to content. Most will start off in college, accumulating that basic information they need for their chosen field, then move on to a “journeyman&# stage in a company (or their own company) where they will learn how to apply that accumulated knowledge. April 2008.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? In today’s economic climate, content syndication is one of the lowest risk lead generation vehicles there is. With all this going for it, why then isn’t content syndication a slam dunk success?

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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?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Will they freely submit to such structured information environments as those provided by SAP and Oracle, content and knowledge management systems, and communication by email? s companies can use technology to place users in control of information, and is home to ongoing discussion about the user revolution and Enterprise 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. The company reported $9.7 In 2008, revenues were up to $16.6 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 brand mascots are a common tool to promote your product or service. That’s what makes them memorable.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Content Management (2). April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. We have other people at my company who worry about that kind of thing. *Â? It can either be pushed to you (RSS and email for example), or you can set out looking for it yourself (on Google, for example). Announcements (26).

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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. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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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.

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

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered! Ok, ok, maybe they do in terms of commercial viability, but inherently there is motion from channel to channel based on content, time, cost, benefits, etc. Upcoming Events.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Given the current state of the economy, I find companies in the industrial sector only recognizing SAL’s and SQO’s. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? .&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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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? It is a joint presentation by Omniture, an Adobe company, and ExactTarget on the best practices of Email and Social Engagement. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing? . –

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%).

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Friday, June 27, 2008. Submitted by Susan Hanley on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 4:37pm. t always found a lot of success, particularly for companies where Outlook isnâ??t However, they do want to secure meeting content from people who are not invited to the meeting. Research Centers. Anti-Virus / Spyware / Spam. LANs & WANs.

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

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

March 14th, 2008. The results of this study will be presented at WWW2008 , the 17th International World Wide Web Conference which will be held on April 20 to 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. In its March/April 2008 issue , Technology Review has published a series of articles about the 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The contents of this KM blog are my personal comments and do not reflect the official views of Hewlett-Packard Company.]. HP reserves the right, but is not obligated to, edit or remove your comment if it contains personally identifiable information or other content HP deems unacceptable. » May 2008 (3).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

July 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm. · During my blogging over the past four years I have pointed several times previous to an article in The Economist from January 2006 titled The New Organization ( The way people work has changed dramatically, but the way their companies are organised lags far behind. . via RSS: Via email: Search.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

May 19, 2008. I want people who read my profile to see that I’m happily employed, that I work for a “real&# company, and that my company has capabilities in certain areas. Comment by Hjörtur Smárason on May 19, 2008 @ 7:13 am. Comment by lou suSi on May 19, 2008 @ 7:15 am. chrisbrogan.com.

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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. Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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